21 August 2012 – Renewable Energy World
Aviation remains as much a part of Washington State as its eastern dry-land agriculture or the rain-soaked forests on its mountainous western fringes. But only the alternative energy industry proposes to combine the three in a regional effort to create a green and renewable jet fuel (biojet).
1 August 2012 – Pallet Enterprise
Many believe that the wood energy market is just getting started. But what sectors are the most promising? And what factors could affect future demand?
16 June 2012 – Missoulian
The future of Pacific Northwest forests may lie in the stuff loggers now leave behind.
03 March 2012 – Teru Talk
The Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) has opportunities for Native American graduate students in the fields of environmental science, forestry, biology, and engineering to work with the Columbia River Basin tribes on project teams for nine months beginning in Fall 2012.
23 October 2011 – The Daily Energy Report
Mike Wolcott, of Washington State University, discusses his universities efforts to make cost effective jet bio-fuel for the transportation sector and why the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance was created.
18 October 2011 – Forest Business Network
In a significant push toward researching practical adoption of biofuel in previously untapped markets, three University of Idaho professors are partnering with the University of Washington and Washington State University in two parallel, five-year $40 million grants to develop jet fuel based on isobutanol.
10 October 2011 – E&E Publishing (republished on NARA)
Major initiatives are under way to assess the feasibility of developing a new industry in the Pacific Northwest — growing and processing woody biofuels for cars, trucks and airplanes.
9 October 2011 – Missoulian
We used to make airplanes out of wood. Now we’re using trees to make jet fuel. The Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance has granted the University of Montana $500,000 for a five-year study of wood-based petrochemical substitutes.
6 October 2011 – UWToday
Students at the University of Washington have teamed up on a startup that promises to turn slash piles of forest refuse into biochar, a crumbly charcoal-like product for farmers that helps their soil hold water and nutrients. Biochar is not technically a fertilizer, but often improves yield for farmers.
5 October 2011 – PHYSORG.com
One aspect of the award in support of NARA that has particular relevance to plant biology is the alliance’s intention to utilize the most recent technologies and scientific approaches to help overcome long-standing issues in using woody biomass for biofuels production.