Wednesday, November 12, 2008

An Update On Plants As Biofuels…

National Public Radio ran a story the other morning on the future of plants, biofuels, and cellulosic ethanol. I have written on this topic before but I feel it very necessary to remain current. According to the article…

Part of the answer could be fuels made from the plant material cellulose. Researchers at the new Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of California-Berkeley are working on a recipe for this biofuel.

"It's not like fusion," Somerville says, "where it really doesn't work. This is something that works and just needs to work a bit better in order to make it compete with fossil fuels."

Read the whole store story or listen to the NPR radio broadcast here…

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