We are all aware that we need to move away from our dependability on petroleum as a nation and a world. There has been a big push in the last few years to move away from, or at least minimize, our use of the aforementioned. In fact, being green has become popular and easily marketable, and every company now-a-days emphasizes how their ‘new and vastly improved technologies’ minimize impact on the environment, or perhaps are even good for the environment. Regardless of the validity of these statements, they do indicate a shift in the mentality of the audience – consumers – toward a more respectful and protective attitude for our environment.

Many consumers, businesses, and scientists alike have become interested in how to use “biomass” to fuel our cars, light our lamps, and create our toys. But the problem, as always, has been how to use this biomass efficiently to satisfy these needs because the processes are just too costly and too wasteful. Well, some researchers from University of Massachusetts Amherst seemed to have come a step closer to truly creating a greener planet.  Here is the Science article.