In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:38:39 -0800 (PST): Hi, [snip]
IOW they are engineering a new disease that will ravage all the Earth's plant life, and all crops, once it escapes the factory, which any one who has seen Jurassic Park ought to understand. >resources. (See "Biomass: Hope and Hype.") In an >effort to reduce the processing costs of these >materials, researchers are genetically engineering >organisms that can devour grasses and waste biomass, >digest the complex sugars, and then transform the >resulting simple sugars into alcohol. (See "Better >Biofuels" and "Redesigning Life to Make Ethanol.") >Already, advances in parts of this process have led to >planned cellulosic-ethanol plants. (See "Making >Ethanol from Wood Chips.") > >http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/17944/ Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
