With all the talk of ethanol, doomsayers were forecasting starvation due to the lack of tortillas south of the border (no kidding). Now the starvation problem associated with ethanol will only affect termites as grasses and trees become the preferred source of carbohydrate for the process, according to the Department of Energy.
the future of biofuels is cellulosic ethanol, made from microbes that break down woody bits of non-food crops into sugars that can be fermented into fuel.Cellulosic, and other new biofuels such as biobutanol, which can be made from petroleum as well as biomass, could begin to feed the commercial fuel market within six to 10 years, he said.
ben vess on June 1st, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Why not try hemp in place for cellulosic ethanol? it grows fast, cheap and can be sustained…
-Ben