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7:25 a.m. — Windshield on car
broken, Abel fire lane.
7:54 a.m. — Check stolen, Love
Library.
11:08 a.m. — Belated report of
male student assaulted by three
other males, Harper-Schramm
Smith parking lot.
11:48 a.m. — Stolen backpack,
Abel food service, $150.
2:56 p.m.!— Bike stolen, Cather
Hall, $210.
3:23 p.m.—Injury/sickness, party
refused treatment, Oldfather Hall.
6:04 p.m. — Fire alarm pulled,
__ Walter Scott Engineering Center.
10:43 p.m.—Injury/sickness, stu
dent transported to Saint Elizabeth
Community Health Center, Uni
versity Health Center.
Beginning midnight Friday
1:16 p.m.—Purse and coat stolen,
parking lot 6, $180.
1:41 p.m. — Stolen stereo equip
ment and broken window, parking
lot 6, $540.
2:55 p.m. — Two-vehicle acci
dent, parking lot south of College
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2:47 p.m.—Items stolen from car,
CatHer-Pound parking lot, $180.
4:17 p.m.—Items stolen from car,
Beadle Center parking lot, $227.
5:21 p.m. — Auto accident, alley
south of Westbrook Music Build
ing, $200.
6:08 p.m. — Person transported to
detox, Nebraska Union.
Beginning midnight Saturday
12:25 a.m. — Fire alarm pulled,
one arrested, Neihardt Hall.
12:35 a.m.—Assault, one arrested,
Neihardt Hall.
1:30 a.m. — Person driving while
intoxicated, 16th and W streets.
10:04 p.m. — Items stolen from
car, $510.
10:42 p.m. — Vehicle window
broken, 19th and Vine streets, $ 150.
Beginning midnight Sunday
2:22 a.m.—Fire box glass broken,
Cather Hall, $15.
10:46 a.m. — Stereo stolen from
car, parking lot at 20th and Vine
streets, $330.
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A UNL biology professor said he
hopes “to create a metabolic
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him to capture waste carbon dioxide
and convert it into ethanol.
Conway and F. Robert Tabita
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Tyrrell Conway, assistant professor of biology at UNL, recently received a grant for ethanol
research. He said increased ethanol production would benefit the economy and the environ
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UNL, Ohio State to begin ethanol research -
in the production of gasohol, which
is a motor fuel mixture with about
90 percent unleaded gasoline and
10 percent ethyl alcohol.
Currently, ethanol production
plants and industries, which create
ethanol from corn starch conver
sion, use the waste carbon dioxide
for beverage carbonation, he said.
“There’s not a lot of value in
carbon dioxide for that purpose.
Ethanol production is a billion
dollar industry,” Conway said.
“And if we could capture thd waste
carbon dioxide and convert it into
ethanol, we could increase produc
tion by 33 percent.”
“Ethanol is an excellent alterna
tive fuel,” Conway said. “We have
to look to the day when petroleum
will be limited.”
An increase in ethanol produc
tion also would benefit Nebraska’s
economy because it would lead to
an increase in the number of
farmers needed to harvest com,
which is a large cash crop for the
state, Conway said.
Ethanol is made from com,
which is grown in the United Stales,
while petroleum is often imported
from foreign countries, he said.
“Petroleum must be pulled from
the ground, creating a net increase
of carbon dioxide in the atmo
sphere,” Conway said. “It is a one
way flow of carbon dioxide because
the plants use the carbon dioxide
from petroleum, but they do not
turn it back into petroleum.”
“Ethanol has several benefits,”
he said. “It has no effect on the
greenhouse effect, and there’s no
net loss of carbon dioxide to the
atmosphere.”
Conway said he hoped to begin
his research within the next few
months.
“It’s an exciting project that I
think will lead to improvements in
the process of ethanol production,”
he said.
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln and Ohio State University
will each contribute $36,500 to the
project, and private industries will
donate an additional $3,000 to
match the funds of Midwest Plant
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