Researcher says waste-to-ethanol a waste of local resources

In Indiana, a researcher says that focus on waste-to-ethanol technology is a waste of local resources because the process produces an inferior fuel.

John Regalbuto, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a former researcher and adviser for the National Science Foundation, said given various limitations of trash and the science of transforming it, Lake County would be better off turning municipal garbage into fuel oil, which then could be used to produce electricity or other energy.

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