Thursday, February 3, 2011
Cows and Enzymes for Better Biofuels
I believe that this idea will work. They are artifically making better enzymes for biofuels. We are using the cow rumens to make energy into biofuels. Microbes make the breakdown of the plant easier. This should help to our growning problem of non-renewable resources. This is also very easily made into fuels. They can use the swithgrass and harvest and extract the sugars and make ethonal. Although it has to be broken down, this is one way of how to do it.
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What idea? They have not only found out which bacteria are the most likely to be responsible for the efficient break down of cellulose in these herbivores, but they've isolated the enzymes and are working toward the isolation of the exact genes that are responsible for making the enzymes. It is not about it might work, its all about when will they incorporate this technology on a commercial scale to produce usable fuel from previously discarded plant material?
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