[spinestein]

They did a 5 minute "in depth" story on Iogen (Carl Sagan would have pronounced it "ee-o-jen") this morning on NPR.

In spite of NPR's fawning over them, I'm still very impressed with their results and can't wait to see this type of technology really used on a large scale. Farming fast growing plants like grass and fermenting it into alcohol to be burned for energy for human use is how solar power SHOULD be done and I hope Iogen reaps the rewards for the decades of research they've done, particularly on the enzymes used to break down the cellulose before fermentation.

[kellynla]

well anything that can get us off the foreign oil addiction,
I am for!

[EEDUDE]

I've been following this research for some time.

They are using the enzymes produced by bacteria in the stomachs of termites.

If it works out this will be an answer to a prayer.

Maybe we can tell the Arabs to go p!ss up a rope.

[pepsionice]

In the long run...it can't be corn as the top ingredient for Ethanol. It'll have to be sugar cane...and in this case...there will be limits where you can grow huge amounts of the stuff. It takes too much energy to convert corn...alot less for sugar cane.