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Western Kentucky University is expanding its energy consciousness.
For years, the Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology has worked on trying to make coal-burning power plants more efficient; the university has attempted and mostly accomplished making its campus more energy efficient and soon ICSET will study how best to convert agriculture products into fuel.
A $500,000 federal budget line item will be used to establish a “theoretical framework” to use a chemical reaction to turn ag products into biofuels, said Buddy Steen, director of the WKU Center for Research and Development.
