DOE BIOFUELS R&D HITS $1 BILLION FOR 2007.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has appropriated $1 billion for multiyear biofuels and research and development projects in the fiscal year 2007. The DOE has announced four biofuels research projects worth $7.7 million which are designed to demonstrate technology for gasification-based thermochemical conversion processes that convert plant materials such as corn stover and grasses into biofuels.