Japan Aims to Make Biofuel from Straw

Fuel from sugar beets, wheat, corn or sugarcane = biofuel.  It's replenishable.

So, what can be wrong with it?

Well…the Food and Agricultural Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development thinks that reliance on biofuels threatens to drive up food prices in poor countries.

"Sigh!!!"

Can't win for

trying.

However, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is seeking a budget of a few million to demonstrate that biofuels can be made from rice straw and chaff…the inedible parts. That way, everyone will be happy….except for the cows who don't get their portion of straw.

Japan has already made ethanol from straw and chaff at the laboratory level. Now they want to show that they can do it on a relatively large scale in a local community.

If they succeed…everyone will be happy again…except the cows, of course…and their activists.