Madison, Wis. — Governor Jim Doyle announced Wisconsin’s next energy move would be away from oil on Friday with the creation of the Biofuels Initiative....
Madison, Wis. — Virent, a UW-Madison spinoff working on hydrogen energy sources, has received a $2 million grant from the Department of Energy....
The prophesied “hydrogen economy” has been a little slow in coming, perhaps because hydrogen is hard to produce and harder to store in a non-volatile way. Virent, a Madison-based startup, may have the technology to solve both problems at once....