Biofuels Battle: Chemistry Versus Biology

Forbes.com
Jonathan Fahey, 04.29.09, 06:00 AM EDT

Out Of The Labs

What's the best way to turn plants into fuel?

There are 1,865 biofuels companies out there, and sometimes it seems that there are at least 1,865 different ways of turning every manner of biological material into fuel for a car, truck, train or plane.

A big part of the reason, of course, is that petroleum is, basically, old biological gunk. Changing new biological stuff into old biological stuff is relatively easy to do in a lab, at least.

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