Bioenergy Conversion with Jerry Tuskan

How exactly are plants converted into liquid transportation fuel? And what obstacles does bioenergy need to overcome in order to displace fossil fuels in the US energy economy and abroad?Jerry Tuskan is the CEO of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation and Group Lead for Plant Systems Biology in the Biosciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he has been since 1990.He also holds a joint appointment at the Joint Genome Institute - a Department of Energy Office of Science user fac...

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