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Joint BioEnergy Institute
With heady talk of embarking on a "Apollo" project
for biological fuels, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman unleashed
three teams of scientists on a national hunt for clean liquid
energy derived from plants and microbes. A year ago, Bay Area
scientists decided to lead that hunt with an audacious bid
to lure two giant biofuels institutes here, funded by tens
of millions of dollars a year from BP LLC and the U.S. Department
of Energy. On June 26, they clinched the second half of that
double prize as Bodman named the Joint BioEnergy Institute,
led by Berkeley Lab, as one of three national bioenergy centers
to receive $125 million each over the next five years. Full
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