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Press Release – A
Conversation about Alternative Fuels:
Biodiesel and Corn Ethanol
Is the oil crisis for real or is it just a fabrication to
make more money for the oil industry?
If it is real, how serious is it?
Could we really run out of oil?
When? Then what?
What do you think America should
do? What are you going
to do?
Dr. Jim Byford is a
University of Tennessee at Martin Professor studying the development
of corn ethanol, Dr. Tim Burcham is a University of Tennessee at
Martin Professor studying the impact of biofuels (biodiesel and
ethanol), and Mr. Parks Wells is Executive Director of the Tennessee
Soybean Promotion Council.
These experts will be available for an open discussion and
conversation about the current status and future direction of
today’s petroleum dependency and the role alternative fuels will
play in our future.
Join the discussion.
These men are on the leading edge of biofuels development and
promoting policies that will impact our future and the future of our
children. Ask them your
questions. Give them
your opinions. Share
your experiences.
A Science Café will be held at Joe and Deana’s Bypass
Café in Dyer,
Tennessee on
Thursday night December 20 at 6:00 p.m.
Joe and Deana’s is located on the Highway 45 Bypass North of
Dyer, between Trenton and Union City.
What is a Science Café?
A Science Café is a lively
science discussion that takes place in a nontraditional setting.
Scientists speak briefly and the audience engages directly
with them in a discussion and question and answer session.
Cafés take place in a wide variety of public places such as
coffee shops, pubs, restaurants, and galleries.
These informal venues provide an opportunity to engage
members of the public who might not attend a formal university
lecture. While adults
may be too busy to go to a lecture, the science café model allows
the scientists to come to them.
The goal is to get non-scientists to talk about science with
the same sense of passion and fun as non-athletes discuss sports.
While not expecting scientific research to be as popular a
topic as the Super Bowl, science cafés are an effort to bring
cutting-edge work out of the laboratory and to the lay public so
they can understand and enjoy the latest developments.
Many people receive exposure to science through museums,
zoos, etc. but most of
these present basic science, not current research.
The café model is based on the old European salons, where
small groups of people gathered over drinks to casually discuss
science and philosophy.
There was a revival of the café movement in 1998 when a group called
“Café Scientifique” began holding events in
Leeds,
England.
The movement built up great momentum in the UK and beyond.
Today there are over 50 throughout
Europe.
There are also cafés in India, Brazil,
Canada, Australia, and Singapore.
(http://www.cafescientifique.org)
The movement has recently moved to the United States
with dozens of new cafes opening every year since 2002.
The American Chemical Society is promoting science
cafés to expand scientific literacy among local citizens and to
stimulate thinking among non-scientists about questions of the day
which have a scientific underpinning.
Events are being planned across
Tennessee for 2008 in Memphis, Knoxville, Kingsport, and other
cities.
The Thursday
night café at Joe and Deana’s Bypass Café in Dyer will be the first
such event for Tennessee!
This event is sponsored by the Kentucky Lake Section of the
American Chemical Society which represents counties in West
Tennessee, Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois.
Funding provided by a Science Café mini-grant from
the American Chemical Society.
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