ISRAEL'S BIG GREEN FUTURE

摘要

On the Bergman campus of Ben-Gurion University (BGU), located in the city of Beer-Sheva on the northern edge of Israels Negev Desert, researchers are doing what they can to maximize Israel's limited natural resources. Here, students in Zeev Weis-man's lab are working with a variety of discarded seed crops like jatropha and castor for use in biofuel development projects. They're also working with the waste products of the olive oil industry. According to student Rebecca Willson, the industry discards about two and a half metric tons of inedible oil each year. Although Weisman and his colleagues don't see biofuels as the long-term solution to climate change, they say they're an improvement over fossil fuels in the wait for fuel-cell technologies to mature.