Research Center in Grand Forks --- Researching Alternative Liquid Fuels for US Military

The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) in Grand Forks, N.D., is developing alternative liquid fuels for military and commercial applications.

Link here.

The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. (CCAT) in East Hartford, Conn., awarded EERC a $906,000 contract to develop alternative liquid fuels. The EERC will demonstrate gasification-based technologies for converting nonpetroleum feedstocks, such as coal and biomass, into liquid fuels.

“The military has been good at developing products that private companies and consumers can benefit from,” he states. “This has the possibility for development of moderate-scale systems that allow distributed production of power and fuels, utilizing coal and regional sources of biomass.”

I have talked/bloggeda about EERC in the past. In fact, it is linked at the sidebar at the right. It has a huge role in advancing the oil and gas industry in North Dakota.