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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCellulose dreams: the search for new means and materials for making ethanol
Science News, August 25, 2007 by Corinna Wu
Tags: Department of Energy, gasoline, NETWORKING, researcher
Contrary to one charge made by some critics, however, the researchers concluded that it doesn't take more energy to make ethanol than can then be obtained by burning it.
Despite the excitement currently devoted to ethanol, it's likely to be only a short-term answer to the country's growing fuel needs, Keller says. "Within the next 5 years, ethanol is where we can make a difference. But will it be the final answer? I don't know."
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