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Genetically Modified Trees Provide Alternative Fuel
By Mr Ethanol | August 22, 2008
WHQR Public Radio:
North Carolina State University has received a grant to study how genetically modified trees can be used to make ethanol.
The nearly $1 million will go toward planting trees at various locations across the state.
The modified trees produce more sugar, which is the part of the tree that can produce ethanol.
NC State’s Principal Investigator for the project Hasan Jameel says now is the time to use trees this way.
“It probably wouldn’t make sense that you could make trees into ethanol at a dollar a gallon of gas. But once you start getting around three, four dollars a gallon, it becomes possible to do it.”
It will take five to ten years before the trees can be harvested. But Jameel says the genetic modification allowing them to produce more ethanol also makes them grow faster.
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