In this extended version of the talk from our latest issue, we speak with Mary Tilton, VP of plant operations at Virent, which is using chemistry to turn plants into fuel.READ»
A Chinese company is trying to buy the Hummer brand from GM and the state-owned oil company is building massive storage tanks to stockpile gasoline and diesel fuel. It may make one chuckle - - they’ll need more gas to serve all those gas-guzzlers - - but there’s a more important message to take away from this news.READ»
Many companies manufacture synthetic crude oil--the entire Canadian oil shale industry comes to mind--but Oregon-based Agri-Plas is the first US company to convert hard-to-recycle agricultural plastics into crude oil.
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