termite ethanol Archives РThe Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:49:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Termites Help Producing Ethanol From Wood https://www.greenoptimistic.com/termite-ethanol-wood-20081028/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/termite-ethanol-wood-20081028/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:49:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1093 Michael Scharf, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and his colleague Aur̩lien Tartar describe the way that the enzymes produces by termites and the micro-organisms living inside them, or their "symbionts" could help the scientists produce ethanol from straw or wood by providing some basic chemical processes.

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