Friday, July 27, 2012

CTAHR awarded $6 million grant

"The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and its project partners were awarded a four-year $6 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to increase Hawaiʻi’s energy security by creating locally  produced renewable energy."
From left, Andrew Hashimoto, CTAHR professor/principal investigator; Lee Jakeway, director of energy development at Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar; Richard Ogoshi, CTAHR research agronomist and Tim Eggeman, chief technology officer of ZeaChem, Inc. inspecting energy crop trials at Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar (photo courtesy of Andrew Hashimoto)

click on the link at University of Hawaii webpage for the entire article:
 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2012/07/25/biofuel-project-receives-6-million-grant/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-ck3FYVNl6s

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