Ethanol from poop and cattails used to treat sewage
Not only can clean-burning ethanol be made from sewage waste, cattail marshes are superb ways to filter sewage, and provide biomass for ethanol too.
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Politics in the Zeros
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Farmers may get cash for unused corn cobs
Rather than plowing corn cobs under, Iowa farmers will be able to sell them to plants that will turn them into ethanol and fertilizer. The farmers can just leave the cobs piled in the fields and have them picked up.…
Ethanol from corn cobs
Project LIBERTY is how POET, the largest producer of ethanol in the world, will commercialize the production of cellulosic ethanol from corn cobs. This video explains how it will happen. For more information, go to or The video…
Ethanol plants shutting down
The rising price of corn is forcing ethanol plants to close, and plans to build new plants are being postponed. This could cause a shortfall of 5 billion gallons a year which would in turn force the price of gasoline…
Ethanol directly from algae
Algenol plans to build a saltwater algae plant in the desert in Mexico. Unlike other methods that require the algae be squeezed to product the oil, they’ve GMO’ed algae to create ethanol directly, and claim the output is dramatically greater…