{"id":123,"date":"2007-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-49-associate-dean-diversity\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:46","slug":"innovation-anthology-49-associate-dean-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2007\/07\/17\/innovation-anthology-49-associate-dean-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #49: Associate Dean, Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The search for renewable energy has focused the spotlight on biofuels<\/strong> to drive our cars. <\/p>\n

Ethanol <\/strong>can be produced from crops like grain or corn and blended with conventional gasoline at a concentration of 5 to 10 percent. <\/p>\n

Countries in Europe and South America have been doing this for some time, but Canada is lagging behind. <\/p>\n

Dr. Kurt Klein<\/strong> is an economist at the University of Lethbridge.<\/strong> With funding from Biocap Canada and SSHRC, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, he’s looking at some of the problems we have to overcome before a biofuels industry can take hold in Canada. <\/p>\n

DR. KURT KLEIN: <\/strong>We have many logistical issues. For example, most of our surplus agricultural production is in western Canada in the prairie region where we can produce a lot of ethanol. But most of our cars are in Toronto and Montreal and other places in eastern Canada, a long ways away from where the ethanol will be produced. Since we can’t put the ethanol into pipelines to get it there, we need to find a way that’s cost effective to get the ethanol to where it will actually be used.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Dr. Klein says one option is to ship the ethanol we produce in western Canada to the United State in exchange for ethanol they produce in the east. <\/p>\n

Thanks today to The University of Lethbridge. <\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n

FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY, I’M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/strong> <\/p>\n

Guest<\/h2>\n

Margaret-Ann Armour, PhD, <\/h3>\n

University of Alberta, Faculty of Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, margaret-ann.armour@ualberta.ca<\/h4>\n

Sponsor<\/h2>\n

University of Lethbridge<\/a><\/h3>\n

In 2007 The University of Lethbridge celebrated its 40th anniversary. The U of L campus is home to the world renowned Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience. The University is also a centre of expertise on water and remote sensing.  <\/p>\n

For more interviews with University of Lethbridge researchers, check out the website for Innovation Alberta<\/span><\/a>. (2001-2008)
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Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02007-07-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The search for renewable energy has focused the spotlight on biofuels<\/b> to drive our cars. Ethanol can be produced from crops like grain or corn and blended with conventional gasoline at a concentration of 5 to 10 percent. <\/p>\n

Countries in Europe and South America have been doing this for some time, but Canada is lagging behind. (The University of Lethbridge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,17,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-environment","category-social-sciences","category-university-of-lethbridge","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/228kurt_klein.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}