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Algae is the New Fast Food Grease
October 2, 2008
Because ethanol is regarded as a less than perfect substitute for gasoline (and a terribly non-delicious form of corn), many scientists are researching new methods for reducing our dependence on oil and limiting the amount of farmland used to make fuel. The beauty -- we thought--of ethanol is that it is produced from a renewable resource (corn) that is already grown in abundance in America. Of course, when the farmland typically reserved for...
