From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 10:53:35 MDT
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/020830072133.htm
<<...Writing this week (Aug. 29) in the journal Nature, research scientist
Randy Cortright, graduate student Rupali Davda and professor James Dumesic
describe a process by which glucose, the same energy source used by most
plants and animals, is converted to hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and gaseous
alkanes with hydrogen constituting 50 percent of the products. More refined
molecules such as ethylene glycol and methanol are almost completely
converted to hydrogen and carbon dioxide. "The process should be
greenhouse-gas neutral," says Cortright. "Carbon dioxide is produced as a
byproduct, but the plant biomass grown for hydrogen production will fix and
store the carbon dioxide released the previous year." Glucose is manufactured
in vast quantities -- for example, in the form of corn syrup -- from corn
starch, but can also be made from sugar beets, or low-cost biomass waste
streams like paper mill sludge, cheese whey, corn stover or wood waste...>>
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