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A new report from the National Research Council (NRC) charges that increased corn ethanol production would have a profound impact on water quality and availability. With the help of a US Department of Energy grant in 2002, the company began working to extract sugars for fermentation, not from starches but from cellulose and lignin, the tougher insoluble materials that stiffen plant cell walls.
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Biofuel the Potential Magic Bullet
DuPont's experimental station in Wilmington, Del., sprawls over more than 150 acres, one of the largest nonacademic research campuses in the world. Its roots lie in the 19th century, but today the station is home to 2,000 scientists, and many are trying to solve huge 21st-century problems: global warming, dependence on oil and feeding the world, to name a few. DuPont is exploring how a single solution can have an impact on all of them. The potential magic bu...
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