Grass could be fuel of the future

WalesOnline.co.uk
May 28 2009 by James McCarthy, Western Mail

SCIENTISTS in Wales are working on a ground-breaking £1m scheme to turn grass into fuel.
The Assembly Government- backed “grassohol” project aims to develop a commercially viable way to make ethanol which is used as an alternative to petrol.

The project, which has been funded by the UK government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, is led by the Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University.

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