Friday, October 07, 2005

Growing Expectations: New Technology for Biofuels from Biomass

Growing Expectations: Science News Online, Oct. 1, 2005:
by Naila Moreira -- Oct 2005
"'Cellulosic biofuels are at least as likely as hydrogen to be a future sustainable transportation fuel of choice,' says Yerina Mugica of NRDC.
Champions of biofuels still have technical, economic, and political barriers to overcome. For one thing, no one has yet found a commercially viable process for making large amounts of cellulosic biofuel. But with a host of cost-cutting advances now working their way through the pipeline, many researchers say biofuels from both cellulosic feedstocks and corn grain are fated to play vital roles in the world's energy equation."

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