http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:46:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/07/discovery-resurrects-process-to-convert-sugar-directly-to-diesel/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/07/discovery-resurrects-process-to-convert-sugar-directly-to-diesel/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:45:21 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33382 A long-abandoned fermentation process is being resurrected by UC Berkeley chemists and chemical engineers to produce compounds to feed a catalytic reaction that produces a fuel that looks and acts just like diesel. The fuel has a higher energy content than ethanol, and could help replace nonrenewable transportation fuels.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/07/discovery-resurrects-process-to-convert-sugar-directly-to-diesel/feed/ 0 http://www.bosch-press.com/tbwebdb/bosch-usa/en-US/PressText.cfm?CFID=14775693&CFTOKEN=1f70b57b3adbeaa2-95337090-0E2B-A255-D86D90F8BE328E02&nh=00&Search=0&id=501 http://www.bosch-press.com/tbwebdb/bosch-usa/en-US/PressText.cfm?CFID=14775693&CFTOKEN=1f70b57b3adbeaa2-95337090-0E2B-A255-D86D90F8BE328E02&nh=00&Search=0&id=501#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:23:08 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32419 The Bosch Energy Research Network has awarded chemical engineering professor Elton Cairns and mechanical engineering professor Kameshwar Poolla up to $150,000 over two years for research to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact. The awards are among seven announced July 17 after BERN reviewed 121 applications from five U.S. research universities.]]> http://www.bosch-press.com/tbwebdb/bosch-usa/en-US/PressText.cfm?CFID=14775693&CFTOKEN=1f70b57b3adbeaa2-95337090-0E2B-A255-D86D90F8BE328E02&nh=00&Search=0&id=501/feed/ 0 http://www.law.berkeley.edu/13648.htm http://www.law.berkeley.edu/13648.htm#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:29:48 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32308 Fifteen Berkeley Law and other UC Berkeley graduate students traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and present renewable energy portfolios that they’d designed for a class project. Afterward, observers said the students' ideas could inform the national debate on renewable energy development.]]> http://www.law.berkeley.edu/13648.htm/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/23/25678/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/23/25678/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:54:54 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25678 The Cal Energy Corps is offering summer 2012 internships in hands-on energy and climate research around the world — from Brazil to Germany to Ghana to China. Undergraduates have until March 18 to apply.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/23/25678/feed/ 0 http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/brown-administrations-view-of-renewable-energy-in-california-by-2020/ http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/brown-administrations-view-of-renewable-energy-in-california-by-2020/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:09:54 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=13580 A post from UCLA and Berkeley Law's Legal Planet recaps a recent joint conference that examined Gov. Jerry Brown's ambitious agenda for renewable energy over the next decade.]]> http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/brown-administrations-view-of-renewable-energy-in-california-by-2020/feed/ 0