Napier in Hong Kong Biofuel Centre Partnership

China, Education, University/College Programs

February 18, 2010

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by Adam Bell (The Journal) A new partnership between Edinburgh Napier University and City University Hong Kong (CityU) will see the opening of the first Biofuel Research Centre in the Chinese city. The centre in Hong Kong will be a mirror of the existing facility at Edinburgh Napier, which launched as the UK’s first Biofuel Research Centre (BfRC) in December 2007.

…Prof Tangney, a microbiologist internationally renowned in the field of sustainable biofuel production, told The Journal: “We have to find some other way of fuelling and powering society. It’s about oil security.”

The aims of the new union are to promote the idea of renewable energy in China, to exchange knowledge and teach, so that the ideas involved in sustainable power production filter through down to school level.

Prof Tangney cites the example of Brazil, whose biofuel production from sugar cane provides “50 percent of the country’s power from just one percent of total arable land”. READ MORE and MORE

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