 | What’s Driving My Car? 2050 Biofuels and Other Sustainable Energy Sources |
Speaker: TIM DONOHUE
March 16, 2010,
7:00-8:30 pm
Did you know that 50 million new cars roll off the assembly line each year—that’s 137,000 cars a day! If this current growth rate continues, there will be over 1 billion motor vehicles on the world’s roads by 2050. With retail gasoline prices on the rise and a globally dwindling supply of petroleum, we need to find clean and plentiful means of fueling the cars of the future. Will Wisconsin’s pioneering efforts in bioenergy—fuel derived from such renewable sources as plants, trees, and agricultural waste—today transform the way we drive and live a generation from now?
Tim Donohue, professor of Bacteriology, head of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at UW-Madison, discusses the growing field of bioenergy, the production of energy from such renewable sources as plants, trees, and agricultural waste. With fears of global warming and increased pressure to reduce America’s dependence on fossil fuels, Wisconsin’s pioneering efforts in bioenergy may transform the way we live a generation from now.
