DOE's ORNL launches one-stop shop biofuels website

Ethanol Producer Magazine
By Kris Bevill February 08, 2011

The U.S. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a new interactive website meant to integrate a wide variety of data and resources related to bioenergy in an attempt to provide a holistic view of bioenergy and inspire collaboration among industry experts. According to ORNL representatives, the DOE's incentive to create the site stemmed from the realization that while a significant amount of money is being spent on generating data related to bioenergy, a relatively insignificant amount of funding has been allocated toward sharing that data. The new website is an effort to begin sharing data and answering questions related to the future of bioenergy.

The Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework allows users to access everything from reports and technical data to lists of experts and locations of biorefineries and ethanol fueling stations, said Budhendra Bhaduri, ORNL’s principal investigator of the project. “This new tool connects data, knowledge and people in what we expect will become a catalyst that allows interested parties to come together and accelerate the process of developing homegrown, sustainable and plentiful biofuels,” he said.

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