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:: 5.05.2005 ::
Greener ethanol - from paper mill wasteForget corn processing. Don't wait for switch grass. The real key to producing enough ethanol for America's cars and trucks this century is wood.
That's the contention of researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY). By revamping the way paper is made, they've found an economical way to extract important energy-rich sugars from the trees and then convert these sugars into ethanol, a gasoline additive, and other useful chemicals.
It's a process the researchers call a biorefinery. Installed at the nation's paper mills, biorefineries could produce 2.4 billion gallons of ethanol a year, they estimate, or 80 percent of the nation's projected need this year.
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Biorefineries have the potential to double the profits of the paper industry by turning out value-added products while paper mills continue making conventional paper products. [emphasis added] How cool! Found in the Daily Grist - read more in the Christian Science Monitor.
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