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Effective cellulosic ethanol processes would help prevent forest fires

On the environmentally-friendliness scale, cellulosic ethanol already beats its corn-based cousin by using waste products - not crops - to power a motor. Chris Risbrudt, director of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, tells the Wisconsin State Journal that an effective cellulosic ethanol process that uses scraps taken from the forest would also help reduce forest fires. Specifically, Risbrudt said: "...we spent $1.3 billion fighting forest fires (last) year in the Forest Service; because nature is trying to remove that ... Read more →

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