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Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

My research project involves finding a way to turn trees into gasoline, and possibly transform Big Oil into Big Wood.

*pause*

I believe I phrased that indelicately.

Perhaps.

The term "furanics" suddenly comes to mind. I saw an article recently about someone having worked out a process for converting cellulose into fuel which cuts out a lot of the tedium and expense of breaking cellulose molecules down into hydrocarbon molecules. I believe the resulting substance was then mixed with ethanol. (One criticism I saw was that this method would require more land area than we currently have available to produce enough cellulose for the process to be viable as a replacement for petroleum-derived fuels. Heigh-ho.)

So... does this Tom Baker have the long scarf?


[EDIT: this is not the same article I saw, but I believe it's about the same process.

http://www.tcetoday.com/tcetoday/New...aspx?nid=10759 ]