This just in off the wire….

HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka — A research team at Shizuoka University has succeeded in developing a new technology to efficiently produce bioethanol from bamboo.

The woody grass grows faster than trees, and doesn’t cut into food sources like sugar cane or corn, making bamboo an attractive alternative for producing the fuel.

The team, led by biochemical engineering professor Kiyohiko Nakasaki, has developed a method of rendering bamboo into an ultra-fine powder; which, at 50 micrometers, is 10 times finer than that produced by previous methods.

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