$500 million for plant-based fuel research facility at UC Berkeley

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

British Petroleum is funding a $500 million research facility. UC B beat out some other contenders for the honor. I'm a bit skeptical about biofuels, myself, but put enough top botanists in one building and they're bound to come up with something useful. A cure for the wheat rust that's about to invade China might be nice.

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