Overcoming the hurdles to producing ethanol from cellulose

Countries around the world have strong incentives to find alternatives to petroleum-based fuels, and ethanol is broadly considered a strong candidate. Although a growing number of analyses of producing the fuel from corn kernels show that it yields only a marginal energy return at best, the situation may be very different for ethanol created from the cellulose found in all plant material. New developments in producing ethanol from cellulose portend that agricultural wastes

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