Transforma, winners of the Global Stewards Sustainability Prize, devised a strategy to engage unemployed women in Costa Rica in transforming plastic waste into sellable products. Pathogenomica, winners of the Dvorak Energy Prize, are applying DNA …
Energy
“Super yeast” may improve biofuel economics
Scientists at UW–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a common yeast converts plant sugars to biofuel. The newly engineered “super yeast” …
Grad student research recognized in Japan
December 15, 2015 | by Sarah Olson University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Eleanor Bloom presented her research on sustainable systems for residential heating and cooling at a conference last month in Kashiwa, Japan, where she earned second …
Unplug to save money
Unplug your TV when not in use Your television draws energy even when you aren’t using it because it must always ready to receive a signal. Turned off and plugged in, an average TV draws 5 watts per …
Combining biomass and solar energy conversion
In a study published March 9 in Nature Chemistry, UW–Madison chemistry professor Kyoung-Shin Choi presents a new approach to combine solar energy conversion and biomass conversion, two important research areas for renewable energy.
Bioenergy research leads to 100th patent
Calculating the future of solar-fuel refineries
Jan. 23, 2015 | by: Scott Gordon In a paper recently published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, a team led by chemical and biological engineering Professors Christos Maravelias and George Huber outlined a tool …