Comment Cellulose - GM bacteria - alcohol - Profit! (Score 1) 1100
Another article in the big end-of-year 2002 issue of the Economist had one paragraph in which they described a group developing GM bacteria that crack cellulose to sugar, or directly to alchohol. I've seen nothing about that groups since.
Would be wonderful if not Utopian, small family farms produce cornstalks or pine trees or (gasp) hemp, and small production sites turn it into fuel. Since hauling cellulose would be a major part of the cost, the producers would be local and small, and pretty green. Every carbon atom released came out of the air anyway, so no more global warming, no defending the Straights of Hormuz, no sulfer from dirty coal, and we get our V8 engined-landcruisers back.
I want to invest! Anybody seen other news about this effort?
Would be wonderful if not Utopian, small family farms produce cornstalks or pine trees or (gasp) hemp, and small production sites turn it into fuel. Since hauling cellulose would be a major part of the cost, the producers would be local and small, and pretty green. Every carbon atom released came out of the air anyway, so no more global warming, no defending the Straights of Hormuz, no sulfer from dirty coal, and we get our V8 engined-landcruisers back.
I want to invest! Anybody seen other news about this effort?
