A bit of good news to counter the gloom and doom that the expanding oil slick down South is spreading across the land (and water): an article in today's Baltimore Sun reminds us that the the future is an exciting one for biofuels. University of Maryland researchers are working on improving the technique used to create cellulosic ethanol from sources such as poplar trees. This should be much more efficient than corn ethanol, and it shouldn't compete with food crops. In as little as 10 years, researchers hope we'll be getting an appreciable share of our auto fuel from plants. I have to think that the Louisiana shrimp and oysters would approve.
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