Eventually, says Gruber, his fermenting process will be adapted to use corn stalks or wheat straw--known as stover and now sold as cheap animal feed or plowed back into soil--to further knock down the cost.
This may sound like a fantasy, cars that run on fuel created by fermenting straw or grass, but it really exists.
Hundreds of tonnes of household and business waste has been disguised as plastic-wrapped hay, straw or silage bales and dumped on farmland in Essex.
Organic mulches such as wood chips, pine straw or bark have the added benefit of slowly breaking down which adds nutrients to the soil.
The good news is that the BRIC approach is better than trying to build your own diversified portfolio, which would be like building a house out of straw or sticks.
The only technology the self-impregnating woman needs is a straw or turkey baster, and the basic technique hasn't changed much since Talmudic scholars debated the religious implications of insemination without sex in the fifth century.
Casa Maravilla, located next door, is owned by Belgian immigrant Marc Bautil and his wife Elvira, who was born in the Philippines and grew up in the US. The highlight of Maravilla is the beautiful multi-storey wooden bohio (a shack made of straw or wood, whose main living area has open sides and a view of the beach), providing a real Robinson Crusoe feel.
If you're building a house from scratch, consider insulating it with straw bales or even denim.
Fortunately, the treatment wasn't so extreme that I had to suck air through a straw, or anything like that.
Titania could not conceive of the way they were made, except as distillations of sadness and heartbreak and despair, since that was how she made her own poisons, shaking drops of terror out of a wren captured in her fist, or sucking with a silver straw at the tears of a dog.
Activist factions can disproportionately dominate a straw poll, caucus or even a closed partisan primary, but they are not remotely representative of the general electorate.
Handmade from the tough bark of the Tara Wing-Celtis or Blue Sandalwood tree and rice straw, Xuan paper is known for its strong, smooth surface, its ability to absorb water and moisten ink, and fold repeatedly without breaking.
Most of them had brought wives or girlfriends with them, as petite and straw-boned as their mates were gigantic.
Two days later Mitch and I were jumping straw bales, without any reins or stirrups, when I fell off and hit my head so hard I knocked myself out.
"We will start with those bereaved victims whose lives have been torn apart by the murder or manslaughter of a loved one, " Mr Straw told the Labour conference.
Any threat to Chile's stability and its future as a democracy, or Britain's own national interest, says Mr Straw, does not outweigh Britain's obligation to extradite.
He took off his broad-brimmed straw hat so as to show off, or so it seemed, his full head of black hair with a few strands of gray at the temples.
But a recalcitrant Mr Straw could have sought to delay the referendum, or to suggest multiple options to split the reform vote.
Mr Straw has never concealed his strong belief in marriage or his personal reasons for this: his separated parents, his own divorce, the trauma of finding his teenage son involved in drugs.
He saw this Mexico as if it were the backdrop of a movie on afternoon TV, where children walked around barefoot in the dirt or on broken sidewalks and small men wore wide-brimmed straw hats and baggy white shirts and pants.
He has also called for more background checks, tougher penalties for people who buy guns for others - so-called 'straw purchases' - and a requirement that gun owners report lost or stolen weapons to the police.
John Prescott, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and Robin Cook have all performed to Mr Blair's satisfaction, give or take a few ups-and-downs.
Drinking through a straw can help limit the damage, as can rinsing the mouth with water afterwards or consuming the beverage quickly rather than sipping it all day.
Watson was asked if he had done anything special or interesting with the green jacket he won last year with a miraculous shot off the pine straw in a playoff.
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