A local company sees energy potential in our backyard.
Millions in federal funding will bring a center for biofuel research to UW Madison.
Supporters of a bioenergy research facility coming to Madison say a safer, more environmentally friendly source of fuel is in our future.
That source of fuel is, of course, plants. We already use corn to make ethanol, but the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center will take biofuels a step further.
“This basically what we’re looking at converting to alcohol,” Phil Brumm says.