Can Termites Save the World

["Graham Turner" <>]

see
http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=07-P13-00008#feature2

and scroll down

"Corn and sugar cane can already be converted into ethanol which can be used 
in cars. But it takes a lot of energy and land to grow, harvest, and convert 
these foods into fuel. Chu and company have a different idea. Instead of 
using expensive crops which don't give you much bang for your buck they want 
to distill ethanol from agricultural wastes, things like wood chips and a 
fast growing, tropical grass called Miscanthus. Chu calls miscanthus a 
miracle weed. On one experimental field 2500 gallons of ethanol were 
distilled from a single acre. That's nearly three times what you get from 
corn."





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