The earliest corn cobs discovered by archaeologists were tiny, with only a few kernels.
But fuel from algae might make no less sense than trying to make fuel from prairie grasses or corn cobs or wood chips.
Edith Velazquez used to sell boiled corn cobs on the street.
Last week I got to cruise around downtown San Francisco in a big white Ford Super Duty truck powered mostly by fuel made from corn cobs.
The corn should be seven feet (2m) high, waving above our heads, green and laden with fat heavy cobs, like the ones you eat slathered in butter.
His mission: to spread the word about the virtues of home-grown American fuel made from stuff that normally gets thrown away, or in the case of corn cobs, plowed back into the fields.
The microbe, discovered by microbiologists from the University of Massachusetts at the Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts, digests and ferments a wide variety of feedstocks, including corn stover, corn cobs, switchgrass, and sugar cane bagasse.
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Fossil fuels, similarly -- we are trying to target fossil fuels and design so that you get fossil -- biomass to replace fossil fuel, but biomass based on, for example, woody materials, based on agricultural waste like wheat straw, corn cobs -- agricultural waste, lumber waste residues -- that's very inexpensive feedstock.
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