Interesting and logical, but at the end of the ethanol cycle, don't you have remaining compostable biomass to plow back into the fields? Can you do the same with the ash residue?

Focus on the web has shifted in the last few days, since the new working group got started. It's shifted away from thinking about bio-electricity as simply ethanol production or the burning of biomass in power stations. It's shifted away from biomedical applications. Now when you look up bioelectricity on search engines some of the first things you find are articles and portions of research made available that show how electricity and even hydrogen fuel can be formed from various designs of fuel cells which utilize bacteria to very efficiently convert waste to usable forms of energy not to mention the other potentially useful applications.

I'm thrilled that science is given a high priority and a green light under the current administration and that researchers are willing to share some of their findings so people can start to understand what's happening. Public opinion counts and when something is as cool as this it's got to fire up the imagination of a few young minds.

It's also really neat that the internet is there as well. It's helping to make change possible and I hope it remains a place where communications are open and free.