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Professor Dale is Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. He also serves as Editor in Chief of the Wiley journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. In 1996 he won the Charles D. Scott Award for contributions to the use of biotechnology to produce fuels, chemical and other industrial products from renewable plant resources. In 2007 he won the Sterling Hendricks award for contributions to the chemical science of agriculture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2011 and also in 2011 he won the Award of Excellence of the Fuel Ethanol Workshop. In 2013 he was named University Distinguished Professor, a designation held by approximately 1% of university faculty. Professor Dale is interested in the environmentally sustainable conversion of plant matter to industrial products -- fuels, chemicals and materials -- while still meeting human and animal needs for food and feed. He occupies a leadership role in the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC). The GLBRC will receive $275million in Federal funding over 10 years to develop cellulosic biofuels.

Recent Posts by Dr. Bruce Dale

• Accelerating the Growth of Solar and Wind with Biofuels
• Increasing U.S. Energy Security and Reducing Greenhouse Gases in the Transportation Sector: Electricity vs. Biofuels
• Growing Poor Slowly: Why We Must Have Renewable Energy
• Metrics for Comparing Alternative Liquid Fuels
• How Much (And What Kind) of Energy Is Enough?


• The End of Cheap Oil and How It Is Changing Our World
• What’s Next? Choosing Wisely at the End of the Oil Age

Recent Comments by Dr. Bruce Dale

• "Why is there not a single word about recycling these critical minerals in any of the discussion thus far? Why is not better to "mine" recycled batter"
  Critical Minerals: The Achilles Heel of America’s Clean Energy Future?
• "Renewable natural gas (RNG) has grown very rapidly in its share of California's low carbon transport fuel market.  Much of that RNG has come from outs"
  Bioenergy is the Overlooked Giant of Decarbonization
• "Actually, the premise is wrong. The ethanol mandate has always been primarily about reducing the surpluses of corn that have been a regular feature of"
  Reducing the Ethanol Mandate is Smart Environmental Policy
• "Mike: What renewable, low carbon alternatives do you think are best to deal with the intermittent and variable nature of wind and solar?  It is und"
  Fugitive Emissions and the Future of Gas
• "Hi Roger: Yes, the biogas scale issue is critical. We are w0rking on an article on that issue now.  I will share it here when we are done.  Some of"
  Accelerating the Growth of Solar and Wind with Biofuels
• "Thanks, Charles. Would you please send me any published information you have on the cost of heat storage using nuclear, particularly any comparisons w"
  Accelerating the Growth of Solar and Wind with Biofuels
• "Hi Henry, Good questions. :) We are working on a detailed economic analysis of bioenergy (biogas power, RNG and LNG) produced using the Biogasdo"
  Accelerating the Growth of Solar and Wind with Biofuels
• "Thank you, Carol. Lots of good comments in your reply. I have been working for the past four years with a group of Italian farmers to help them doc"
  Accelerating the Growth of Solar and Wind with Biofuels
• "Actually, I cited two reasons: one connected with climate change and the other with long term, sustainable prosperity.  A decade ago I was also a skep"
  Accelerating the Growth of Solar and Wind with Biofuels
• "Thanks for friendly and thoughtful feedback, Roger. I had hoped for many more responses to this post, but I am happy to respond to your generally p"
  Accelerating the Growth of Solar and Wind with Biofuels