Technology is always on the fast track to changing things around in the world to meet our needs, whether it is for better or for worse. In the case of alternative fuels, technology is helping us turn things around for the positive. Louisiana Tech University developed a nanotechnology process that can immobilize expensive enzymes that are used to convert cellulose to sugars, allowing them to be reused several times over and over again, since the countries appetite for fuel cannot be satisfied with just traditional crops alone this process of reusing would be very beneficial to us. This process of reusing would also significantly reduce the cost from $32 million to $7.5 million.
By Andrew Kim
More information can be found at:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008131858.htm
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