WisBiz In-Depth: Badger State Ethanol
By Gregg Hoffmann
MONROE - Badger State Ethanol, one of two Wisconsin ethanol plants featured at a recent international conference in Madison, is developing yet another market from one of its byproducts – carbon dioxide gas (CO2).
“We emit about 300-400 tons of CO2 gas daily,” said Gary Kramer, president and general manager of the BSE plant. “We will sell...
Tom Still: Doubling the lily pads: Controlling the explosion in health care costs
By Tom Still
MADISON – Back in his math teacher days, Al Jacobs taught students about the power of doubling by talking about lily pads. Imagine a colony of lily pads on a pond and the pads doubled in area every day: How long would it take for an area of two square feet of lily pads to cover...
Governor Jim Doyle: Unlock the Potential of Stem Cell Research
The time has come to reexamine the federal policy on stem
cell research.
Wisconsin finds itself at the center of this debate, because
our state is the birthplace of human embryonic stem cell research. In
1998,
Dr. Jamie Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that
his
team of researchers had, for the first time, successfully isolated...
