Sweet sorghum can be used to extract ethanol
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Last Update: 2013-06-22
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Li Shizhong, a professor at Tsinghua University, believes that at present, most media publicize more about wind and solar energy, but in fact, biofuels have played an important role in real life, and can reduce haze and solve the problem of environmental pollution Last year, the world's sales of biofuels were US $95.2 billion, wind energy US $73.8 billion and photovoltaic power US $79.7 billion Li Shizhong believes that in ten years, biofuels are expected to reach US $177.7 billion, while wind energy is expected to reach US $124.7 billion and solar and photovoltaic power generation is expected to reach US $123.7 billion Tsinghua University is currently developing a technology to extract ethanol from sweet sorghum, he said Sweet sorghum can absorb heavy metals in soil, distiller's grains is the by-product of ethanol extraction, and it can also be used as feed, which can replace corn (2421, - 4.00, - 0.16%) as the ideal crop of biofuels.
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