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Science Nation – Green Gasoline from Cellulose
Carbon neutral gasoline … from plants! Like everyone else, George Huber knows money doesn’t grow on trees. But, ask him where gasoline comes from and he won’t just tell you, he’ll show you. To fully understand, Science Nation recently went with Huber to a local lumber yard in Amherst, Mass. A lumber yard is the perfect place to find cellulose, the key building block in plant cells and the organic material that gives plants their structure. So what does cellulose have to do with gasoline? A lot!
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On July 8th, 2011 at 7:48 pm Ann Said:
But doesn’t this “green fuel” still put CO2 back into the atmosphere, just like petroleum? I get that new plants replacing the “biomass plants” take up this CO2, but I’m not sure if it is accurate to assume that the CO2 in used biomass would have found its way to the atmosphere so quickly or that new plants will replace all plants consumed to make biomass.