US and Israel getting closer on biofuel R&D collaboration

In Washington, after a briefing by senior White House staff on April 17, following their arrival in the U.S., an Israeli delegation of top academic and industrial biofuels research scientists and innovators, and Israeli government program managers, is participating in two days of deliberations with their American counterparts from the U.S. DOE and USDA, and the Navy, Federal Aviation Adminstration and the private sector. They are discussing opportunities for U.S.-Israel collaboration on research and innovation to produce alternative fuels (advanced biofuels) that can substitute for petroleum-based gasoline, diesel oil and aviation fuel currently produced from imported oil. Following the meetings in Washington, they will travel to DOE labs in Oak Ridge Tennessee and in California to meet with more than 50 U.S. scientists and energy program managers in those locations.