Potholes on the road to ethanol from crop waste rather than food crops

Monday, April 27, 2009 - 09:07 in Mathematics & Economics

Those highly publicised efforts to produce ethanol fuel from wheat straw, corn cobs, and other crop waste - rather than food crops - appear to be stalling as biofuel companies face mounting difficulties bringing it to the marketplace. That's according to an article scheduled for the 27 April issue of Chemical and Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine...

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