The NARA Cumulative Report: August 2011-March 2013 is available for viewing here.
This report provides a compilation of progress reports for each aspect of the NARA project covering project inception (8/11) through to March 2013. Progress reports are grouped into one of five project goals: Sustainable Biojet, Value …more
NARA affiliate organization Facing the Future has developed biofuels centered curriculum designed for middle and high school students. The packet will be available for purchase in October; however, you can preview the materials at http://bit.ly/15JtnpJ (MS) or http://bit.ly/17Cn3VR (HS). A full story on this much awaited product will be provided later in the year.
NARA outreach team members Charles Burke, Peter Kolb and Craig Rawlings met with business and policy leaders at the Montana Economic Development Summit in Butte Montana September 16-17. It was quite an event.
Imagine a city of less than 30,000 citizens hosting a free event …more
Based on current estimates, a bone-dry ton of forest residue can be converted to 59 gallons of isobutanol. What remains is approximately 1450 dry pounds of “waste product”. (Tom Spink presentation at the Idaho Small Log Conference 2013). Approximately 37% of the “waste product” or more technically speaking “co-product residual” is lignin (550 dry pounds) with the remainder being processing acids, unreacted cellulose (polysaccharides), non-fermented sugars, extractives, bark, yeast, and wood ash. The most common commercial use …more
One of the services provided by NARA affiliate, The University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER), is publically available forest industry data. Much of the information they provide and compile contributes to NARA’s efforts to produce supply chain, environmental and economic sustainability analyses, models and GIS applications useful to an emerging wood-based biofuels industry in the Pacific Northwest. Listed below are two sources …more
Materials built from simple sugar molecules are the foundation of plant systems. Many plants, like corn, use these sugar-based materials to store energy in the form of starch. We then use these materials for food and increasingly as fuels and chemicals. Simple sugars are also used in structural plant materials that humans …more
9/3/2013
Residual wood to jet fuel alliance holds annual meeting in Oregon
Contacts:
Ralph Cavalieri, NARA Project Executive Director, cavalieri@wsu.edu
Mike Wolcott, NARA Co-Project Director, wolcott@wsu.edu
Charles Burke, NARA Communications and Publicity Director, ccburke@wsu.edu
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers, educators, economists and business leaders will gather here in early September to discuss progress made and future challenges to the development of a residual woody biomass to jet fuel and valuable co-products industry in the Pacific Northwest.
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