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Bacterium Gets Wheels Turning On Ethanol Fuel
By Mr Ethanol | March 10, 2008
Washington Post:
A strain of bacteria accidentally found in the Chesapeake Bay more than 20 years ago — a bug that decomposes everything from algae to newspapers to crab shells — could help produce cheaper fuel, according to scientists at the University of Maryland.
Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) will tout the work of professors Steven Hutcheson and 
Ronald Weiner on campus today in announcing that Zymetis, a U-Md. spinoff company, will use the organism to generate ethanol.
The hope is that the bacterium can be used to produce ethanol more efficiently and inexpensively and in effect recycle junk into energy. The bacterium, which is very difficult to find in nature but easily reproduced in the lab, has turned bench scientists into entrepreneurs.
It’s a remarkable bug, Hutcheson said. “There’s nothing out there that compares to it.”
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