Jahn: Wisconsin-based bio-energy research leading the way

WisBusiness.com (Wisconsin's Business News)
4/21/2009
By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com

If the United States is going to change its energy use habits, research coming out of places like the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at UW-Madison will surely help.

So says Molly Jahn, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the university.

Scientists and engineers at the bioenergy center – funded by the Department of Energy with a $125 million, five-year grant – are conducting basic research on new technologies to help convert plant material such as cornstalks, wood chips and perennial native grasses to sources of energy for everything from cars to power plants.

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