Super ethanol is on its way

Nowadays, the environmental problems, represented by global warming from industrial production, are becoming severe.The cost of solving them was significantly high. One of the main causations is the wide use of fossil fuels, which generated lots of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, etc.

To solve the severe problem, biofuel begins to play an important role in industrial production. Ethanol, as the most common biofuel, provides a valuable energy alternative to fossil fuels. Ethanol is considered to be a new, clear, and renewable energy because it can be produced by fermenting grains, such as corns and other crops. Although people argue that the ethanol fuels have negative energy balance, economics, and environmental impacts, it has made a great contribution to the world's energy in recent years. In order to get ethanol from the grain, the grain is first boiled to liquefy the starch by milling it into a fine powder. Under the enzymatic reactions, the starch is broken down to generate smaller sugars. These sugars can be fermented by certain microorganisms, such as yeast.

As indicated in this article posted on CNNmoney.com, the next generation of the biomass fuel, which is also called biofuel, could be chaper, ore plentiful and arriving sooner than you think. To get more information about the new biofuel and its benefits to the environment and the U.S. economy, please click on the link below.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/news/economy/cellulose_ethanol/index.htm