I turned my back on academia a few years ago, but I still like to think I have a modicum of intelligence… So why, in my hotel does the non-dairy creamer have a note on it that says “contains milk”? huh?

Blueprints for cellulose plants get US funding.

The next generation of biofuel facilities will break ground this year. On 28 February the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it would provide up to $385 million to help underwrite six biorefineries that will extract fuel from materials such as wheat straw, wood chips, grass clippings and even orange peels.

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