Fuel From Crop Residues to Eventually Replace Petrol Use
Source: NSW. Minister for Primary Industries. Media Release.
"Researchers at the NSW Department of Primary Industries are reducing the cost of making biofuels from crop residues – aiming eventually to have up to 20 per cent of the petrol used in NSW replaced with this renewable fuel source, Minister for Primary Industries, Ian Macdonald said. "DPI scientists are at the forefront of developing second generation biofuels from low cost, non-food materials or ‘waste’ materials such as crop stubble or forestry thinnings," Minister Macdonald said. "Rather than using grain or any other food source to make biofuels, they are breaking down lignocellulose – an abundant structural plant material like crop stubble or urban green waste – to make ethanol fuel."