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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:56 am
 


Title: Ocean 'termites' could be key to biofuels
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Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-03-08 19:19:26
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After the centuries of distruction caused by these organisms it time trey did something useful.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:06 pm
 


Cellulist ethanol has been produce from enzymes for a few years now. There is a Canadian firm in the running. My understanding is the process is lengthy and you need to do things like recycle the enzemes. It may not work out commercially.

http://www.iogen.ca/

In addition fuel can be made from cellulose by burning it in the presence of water but with insufficient oxygen. It produces something called wood diesel, see Wikipedia. It's inefficiet, produces a litre of fuel from 10 pounds of cellulose - but it's low tech. This is how they produce diesel from coal as well, by incomplete compustion.


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