Sharon Boddy
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Sharon Boddy is a freelance writer living in Ottawa.
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Grains become fuel at the world's first cellulosic ethanol demo plant 2
Posted 2 years, 11 months ago
Our plant supplants your plant: a real-life cellulosic ethanol refinery.Photo: IogenSometimes it seems virtually anything can be made into fuel. As though, if we had the right technology, we could throw together old T-shirts, bumper stickers, and pine cones to make a magical elixir to run the millions of cars on North America's highways.
That's not an entirely far-fetched scenario. The days of filling up our cars on dead dinosaur goo are likely coming to an end.… Read More