Appropriations Request

SUNY Cobleskill Biowaste-to-Bioenergy Center

Amount Requested: $4,650,000

SUNY Cobleskill
Sufolk Circle
Cobleskill, New York 12043

Project Recipient: State Universtiy of New York at Cobleskill (SUNY Cobleskill)

Funds will allow development of a biowaste-to-bioenergy center that will test a US patent-pending process to convert animal and municipal solid waste to clean energy, and to develop a mobile application of the technology for use in the field by US troops.

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