ethanol production

CNET News explores the labs of Mascoma, a biotech company seeking a breakthrough in ethanol production by engineering the perfect microbe.

The U.S. Envronmental Protecton Agency will announce Thursday afternoon whether or not it will reduce the nation's ethanol production requirements.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers say that a sterile grass known as Miscanthus gianteus proved to be significantly more productive than other biofuel crops like corn in the making of ethanol.

photo / freddthompson Ethanol plant  Two University of Texas scientists, Professor R. Malcolm Brown, Jr. and research associate Dr.

David Nobles, Jr., have developed a cyanobacteria that secretes the sugars cellulose, glucose, and sucrose.

These sugars’ fermentation is the major source of the alternative biofuel ethanol. The cyanobacteria could solve many of the problems surrounding ethanol production and could become a highly viable option for renewable energy.

Bio-fuel is creating more problems than it’s fixing…like deforestation. This isn’t new information, but until the media starts pushing it on A1, nobody will care.