Re: OT: Bacterium Gets Wheels Turning on Ethanol Fuel

Jefferson <fwroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: This is interesting in that cellulose, but is the substance that makes
: up cell walls in plants and that is very hard to digest can be turned
: into ethanol by a bacteria. The human digestive system can not do this
: very well, i.e., indigestible fiber. Could ethanol from corn be short
: lived in the U.S. economy?

: Excerpt:
: "Bacterium Gets Wheels Turning on Ethanol Fuel
:
: By Susan Kinzie and David A. Fahrenthold
: Washington Post Staff Writers
: Monday, March 10, 2008; Page B04

: A strain of bacteria accidentally found in the Chesapeake Bay more than
: 20 years ago -- a bug that decomposes everything from algae to
: newspapers to crab shells -- could help produce cheaper fuel, according
: to scientists at the University of Maryland.

: Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) will tout the work of professors Steven
: Hutcheson and Ronald Weiner on campus today in announcing that Zymetis,
: a U-Md. spin off company, will use the organism to generate ethanol.

: The hope is that the bacterium can be used to produce ethanol more
: efficiently and inexpensively and in effect recycle junk into energy.
: The bacterium, which is very difficult to find in nature but easily
: reproduced in the lab, has turned bench scientists into entrepreneurs."
: http://tinyurl.com/2wjorf

: Frank

That would be a blessing as raising and transporting the corn to make the
ethanol uses a hugh amount of energy and fertilizer geerally from
petroleum. sing bacteria and fibrous waste parts of plants and grsses
would be a real boon!

Wendy
.

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