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Report: New Biotech Tools for a Cleaner Environment |
2004-06-05 |
EFL. If you want a cleaner environment, you need to use biotech. The greenies must feel torn by this. (Heh) From the Fact Sheet: The New Biotech Tools for a Cleaner Environment report, developed by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), discusses the evolution and recent blossoming of industrial biotechnology, pollution prevention policy, and the increasing potential for industrial biotechnology to offer new and even revolutionary ways to foster sustainable economic development. The report, released this week, begins with a review of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) cases studies (The Application of Biotechnology to Industrial Sustainability) and goes on to address the question: What if industrial biotechnology were more widely used? Some of the findings in the report include: -Biotechnology process changes allow for ethanol transportation fuel production not only from corn but from cellulosic biomass such as crop residues; bioethanol from cellulose generates 8 to 10 times as much net energy as is required for its production. It is estimated that one gallon of cellulosic ethanol can replace 30 gallons of imported oil equivalents.Biotech, along with nanotech, are making great strides to improve our society. It must be driving the greenies nuts. Full report at http://www.bio.org/ind/pubs/cleaner2004/. |
Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
#1 Bio tech has been in use for years,in some cases decades.For example,your septic tank use anaerobic bacteria and sewage treatment plants use aerobic bacteria. The Valdez oil spill's best clean-up tool was bacteria that accured naturally(this sparked a huge jump in reasearch for developing a natural means for hazmat clean-up).Some of the nasty chemicals made can be render harmless by usin naturally occuring and genetically modified orginisams. |
Posted by: Raptor 2004-06-05 11:01:08 AM |