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- From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: What about this, doomsters?
- Message-ID: <72015@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 00:16:16 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <JMC.92Dec10150952@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- As I recall, Calvin at UC-Berkeley (who won a Nobel for his work in
- photosynthesis) was proposing to use a member of Euphorbia for the
- commercial production of hydrocarbon fuels. The sap is rich in these
- hydrocarbons, much like milkweed sap only better. The last I heard,
- a pilot project had been started (this was several years ago). Can
- anyone tell me what happened to this project?
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