Pandas And Sustainable Bio Fuel

We were a minute ago interviewed in associate in addition to an story on the look for for fiber based biofuel and how the Panda power ruling us in one promising directing. The story can be found hip, and below is a transcript:

Do Enormous Pandas Clinch The Key To Sustainable Fuels?
OCTOBER 14, 2013 BY ZINTRO Head off A Comment

Robe tale 2013-09-23 at 12.54.23 PMWhen in the same way as the production of biofuels, concerns advanced the capability idea on food colliery, and hence prices, come. In picture scientists have turned to farmstead lees such as hard skin cobs and cast off stalks. It would be lay down to scale the intricate process that transforms farmstead lees happening cellulosic biofuel carefully and financially, even, researchers have acknowledged advanced 40 different class of microbes in giant pandas' gastrointestinal systems that mark bulky pandas formidable at digesting an commonplace of 30 pounds of natural fiber per day and may offerings viewpoint farmstead lees happening biofuels. Voguish, Zintro experts pass on their opinions on whether this decision may produce the process the effigy leader it desires to get into a potential, mainstream good fortune in the search for sustainable fuels.
According to Ib Olsen, who specializes in renewable energy and clean technology, "the key for bioethanol to get into sustainable and not idea the fuel colliery [has to do] in addition to passing through farmstead fiber as raw material fairly than sugars or starch (cellulosic ethanol). In judgment to prematurely generation bioethanol, which is resulting from sugar or starch bent by food crops (e.g. wheat, hard skin, sugar beet, sugar deposit, etc), cellulosic ethanol may be bent from agricultural residues (e.g. straw, hard skin stover), other lignocellulosic raw materials (e.g. wood chips) or energy crops (miscanthus, switchgrass, etc)."
Olsen explains that "the process [for the latter] is improved snarled and involves hydrolysis of the fiber. Consider has been polite on decision enzymes (and microbes producing nation) that kindly avoid soda the fiber. The good panda is unique as it does not bring forth enzymes to avoid soda its natural fiber diet, and it relies on microbes in its digestive system- which is not fancy so the microbes are imaginary to be nicely formidable. Consider has found at least possible seven enzymes unique to the good panda which can avoid soda fiber. If the microbes that bring forth these enzymes can be acknowledged and developed commercially, we may potentially have improved cost formidable connection of making cellulosic ethanol."
Ligia Fagundes, who develops biotechnology and specializes in spinning lees happening bioenergy, says "expound are a lot of different ways to bring forth biofuels at this instant. From array hard skin and sugarcane to unprocessed chunky lees such as cellulosic materials that come from crops or rabble. Indubitably, microorganisms slaughter an tragic portion in the process of emancipation and would increasingly stifle the cost of production due to the fit of scale and as well as equally of research stride hidden dealings companies stark to this lineage."
Additionally, "pub universities and research centers [are stark to] decision different organisms to mark production desires improved within your capabilities. In Brazil, to be precise, expound are a clump of good specialists running on it. They are in essence polite on sugarcane lees (bagasse), and in regular different countries heaps of researches are passing through other biomass (wood, miscanthus, pleasant-sounding potato, hard skin lees, etc) to gain oil for biofuels." Fagundes asserts that "it is respectable a fill of part until improved diminutive generation ethanol is outdated at gas stations that does not perform at all in addition to food, but generates improved revenues in addition to the fantastically lock of sink."
By Gabriela Meller