Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!scotty!scott From: scott@scotty (Scott Howard) Newsgroups: sci.bio.technology Subject: Re: Gas industry and biotech Message-ID: <1990Oct17.091628.9592@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 17 Oct 90 09:16:28 GMT References: <9021@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Oct11.184247.4230@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <9166@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: na Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 15 I guess I'd start off by contacting the Office of Naval Research and the Gas Research people in Georgia. You'd think that the EPA and DOE would be naturals for this sort of thing, but the funding from them has dried up since Reagan directed one to make bombs and the other to clean up the mess that they created by making bombs... The ONR has a very active interest in supporting Bioconversion and Methanogenesis, with active programs designed to support graduate students and to buy the equipment and coffee that keeps them going. Good luck! Hope this helps.