Our Monthly Science Roundtable asks: What if science could fix one of our country's big energy mistakes?
A decade ago, government was all-in on corn-based ethanol. This produced bad results on a number of levels: environmental, energy efficiency, the impact on food and crop rotation, etc. But now a team led by a researcher at the University of Rochester is zeroing in on a method to make ethanol much more efficient, and much less corrosive. Will it work? We explore the research.
- Bill Jones, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, University of Rochester
- Tom Baker, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, University of Ottawa
