Professor Jonathan Rubin was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article on research to develop energy from trees in Maine. Rubin’s economic research focuses on how to commercialize biofuel development for use in the transportation industry. Last month the U.S. Department of Defense announced a $3.3 million investment into ongoing research at the University of Maine, some of […]
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Professor Jonathan Rubin is quoted in an Oct. 24 article in the Bangor Daily News on the issue of producing wood-based fuel. The article discusses the experience of the Old Town mill and UMaine’s biorefinery research program to produce cellulosic, or wood-based, ethanol and the current market outlook for ethanol. Read the full article here: http://bangordailynews.com/2015/10/24/the-point/is-there-fuel-in-those-trees-maines-forests-distant-hopes-of-alternative-fuel-revolution/
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Current low oil prices are drawing attention. Prof. Jonathan Rubin was interviewed in the Maine Sun Journal for an article on Maine energy prices: “Low-cost heating oil to fuel household spending.” Read the article here: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/0001/11/30/low-cost-heating-oil-fuel-household-spending/1773683
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Jonathan Rubin recently gave a presentation at the Automated Vehicle Symposium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which featured research and prototypes of unmanned vehicles. Below is the automated vehicle and the HID (human interface device) showing green as it operates at 60 mph with neither hands on the steering wheel nor feet on the pedals. And at the 2015 Transportation Conference in California […]
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Jonathan Rubin is a panelist to discuss electric rates in Maine on today’s Maine Calling radio show at noon on MPBN. Click here for more
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Jonathan Rubin presented research at the 94th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 13, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Rubin presented “Woody Biomass Supply, Economics, Biofuel Policy: Maine and Northeastern Forests” in Session 607: Cellulosic Biofuels for Transportation: Growth Through Linking Feedstocks, Supply Chains and Policies. The presentation was based on research done with Sharon Klein, Binod Neupane, […]
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Jonathan Rubin presented at the 93rd annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 13, 2014. Rubin, who authored the paper with Paul Leiby of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Maxwell Brown of the Colorado School of Mines, presented “Regional Credit Trading: Economic and GHG Impacts of a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard,” in Session […]
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