George W. Huber

Apr. 11, 2008

Biofuels Research Roundup

Ira talks with several researchers looking at innovative ways to harvest energy from plant materials, including gasoline-like chemicals, ethanol, and hydrogen production.

biofuel, energy, transportaion, chemistry, ethanol

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You deliver your prescription to an optician, and they return with a pair of eyeglass lenses tailored precisely to your personal vision quirks. But how?

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