Let’s Talk Trash: Cellulosic Ethanol is Around the Corner

AgWeb.com
12/29/2008
Jeanne Bernick, Farm Journal Crops & Issues Editor

The simple corncob – what some consider field trash – could soon contribute to the nation’s fuel solution. Ethanol companies like Poet are gearing up to produce cellulosic ethanol from cobs and fiber by year 2011.

Now it’s up to the agricultural machinery industry to develop efficient equipment for getting cobs from the field to the biorefinery without adding major complications to the grain harvesting process.

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