Biofuels: Beyond Ethanol - KQED QUEST

For years there's been buzz -- both positive and negative -- about generating ethanol fuel from corn. But thanks to recent developments, the Bay Area is rapidly becoming a world center for the next generation of green fuel alternatives. Meet the scientists investigating the newest methods for converting what we grow into what makes us go.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Ab32
• biofuel
• california
• cellulosic
• co2
• corn
• energy
• ethanol
• global
• warming
• greenhouse
• gas
• emissions
• KQED

[Tonykoehl]

Hemp would work great!!!!

[bealbrian]

Humans can not digest cellulose

[freemind89]

if it really was that easy, why people wont justdo it?

[lostinseganet]

Where have you read that the oil companies are going out of business? I wsould like to read about that.

[nagfree]

That's right, Aeroscope, you should tell them how it's done. Why are we wasting $billions on researching alternative fuels when algae is clearly the answer? The oil companies are going out of business as we speak! These dumb scientists are clueless!

[aeroscope]

This isn't going to work...at least for the short term, algae is the answer. Grows the fastest, no gnenetic engineering, produces biofuel without further process or fermentation.

[OrBeX1]

Water for fuel should be our goal. Not growing more crops but use the resource that is abundant on our small planet.

[lujoebonjo]

fuel from algae, that is the future.

[Birdtrooper]

Biofuels are teh suck & people who are avid supporters of biofuel as a solution to the fuel shortage and pollution are annoying, it's like "oh sure let's cut down all the fuckin forest that are absorbing the problematic gases in order to grow more corn that'll add to the problem so we can get very little energy out of the process & increase the price of the food plants used in the process when being purchased for food". Anyway, yeah it's a good field for study but not an applicable replacement

[teemuruskeepaa]

I would like to remind you that the compressed air car has been invented and it is supposed to locally sell in USA in 2010. It is cheaper to use than anything and emits no pollution.