Thursday, February 3, 2011
cow rumen enzymes for better biofuels
this seems like a good idea, but i think that it would cost a bunch of money because there is millions of cattle around our part of the country. in kansas alone there are about 4-5 million cows, with a large growth rate. the new grass which is easily harvested, the cows can digest them better and break down the sugars more. but i also think that today as a son of a fellow rancher our cattle our doing very well for the harsh winter we are having. and we have only had problems with the cattle as they come off the trucks and are already very sick, actually too sick for our medicine to help them.
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The cow rumen is simply a perfect model of how to turn cellulose into energy because they do it all the time. The cows are not the site of the biofuel production. Scientists have extracted and identified the genes within the bacteria that are responsible for cellulose break down. So now scientists and engineers need to apply this information on a commercial scale to produce biofuels from previously discarded material (stalks and stems) by using these enzymes they've identified.
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