2/23/06 Contact:
David M. Granger, 334/844-9999 (grangdm@auburn.edu)
Deedie Dowdle, 334/844-9999 (ddowdle@auburn.edu)
***MEDIA ADVISORY***
SESSIONS
TO VISIT AU’S E.V. SMITH RESEARCH CENTER FOR BIOENERGY DISCUSSION,
DEMONSTRATIONS
AU Office of Communications and Marketing to feed B-roll, interviews via
satellite
AUBURN -
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Douglas L. Faulkner, Assistant U.S.
Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, will visit
Auburn University’s E.V. Smith Research Center on Thursday for a
discussion and demonstrations of bioenergy sources, such as ethanol and
biodiesel.
AU’s Office of Communications and Marketing will make available via
satellite B-roll and footage of interviews from the event.
Time, coordinates and contact numbers for the satellite feed are:
4:30 p.m.-4:45
p.m. (Central)
C-Band
IA-6
TX 13
Downlink frequency 3960
Down Vertical
Contact numbers
Master control 334-844-9369
Feed point 334-844-9995
The event,
set for 1 p.m., is a response to President George W. Bush’s call
to reduce the U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Bush acknowledged the need for such technologies - even specifically mentioning
switchgrass - in his most recent State of the Union speech.
“We’'ll …fund additional research in cutting edge methods
of producing ethanol, not just from corn, but from wood chips and stalks,
or switchgrass,” President Bush said.
Thursday’s event will feature brief remarks by Sen. Sessions on foreign
energy dependence and U.S. national security; Asst. Secretary Faulkner
on his department’s perspective on renewable energy; AU professor
David Bransby, perhaps the foremost expert on switchgrass in the U.S.,
on the technical feasibility of producing 30 percent of U.S. transportation
fuels from agricultural and forestry products; and Mayor Tony Petelos
of Hoover on ethanol and biodiesel markets in the Southeast and his city’s
police fleet, the largest in the nation powered by E-85 (a mixture of
85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline).
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