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Could crops support biofuel need? Breakthroughs needed?

Could crops support biofuel need? Breakthroughs needed?

March 26, 2007, By Jerry W. Jackson, Check Biotech

Scientists and researchers are grappling for more breakthroughs before ethanol, biodiesel and other fuels of the future are produced in large enough quantities at prices low enough to revolutionize the country's energy independence.

But a concerted effort could enable farms and forests to eventually generate more than 100 billion gallons of biofuel a year, enough to replace the amount of gasoline the United States imports annually, was the opinion from the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (USA). Read more from this news report @ Check Biotech

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