17 Mar 2011Transforming waste plant material into a sustainable, low-emission fuel for the world’s cars, trucks and planes is the aim of a new research collaboration between CSIRO and leading Australian and UK universities.
Being launched today in Canberra, the A.3 million CSIRO Energy Transformed Cluster on Biofuels will develop new processes using enzyme biotechnology techniques to produce liquid fuels from waste plant feedstocks with the potential to provide 30 per cent of Australia’s future transport needs.
Transport is the third largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia after the electricity industry and agriculture.
http://bioenergy.checkbiotech.org/news/biofuels_researchers_turn_waste_wealth
