Old Newspapers + Secret Ingredient = Cheap Biofuel
August 26th, 2011 | by Tina Casey
Today's fishwrap is tomorrow's biofuel: a research team from Tulane University has found a low cost, energy efficient way to recycle ordinary newspaper into butanol biofuel, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for gasoline. The secret ingredient is a bacteria found in animal droppings, which naturally produces butanol as it digests the news.
