Photo of Manuel Garcia-Perez by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services
Scores of WSU researchers are rotting and burning their way to a new energy future.
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Bill Schillinger
by Zach Mazur |
In their world, if it is biological, if it contains a carbon atom, there is a way to draw some energy out of it. Now we just have to find a way to do that in a practical, economic way that approaches the practical, economic grace of gasoline, which, by the way, has had a 100-year head start.
“All of these fuel options have trade-offs,” says Chad Kruger, interim director of WSU’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, “and we can’t predict what they all are. Nothing will be as ‘simple’ or ‘competitive’ as petroleum.”
Read about some of the WSU researchers who are investigating all aspects of biofuels in an article from the Fall 2010 issue of Washington State Magazine here.