Myth: Tobacco Plants Are Only For Smoking: Difference between revisions
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===2016: [https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jul/06/us-farmers-turning-tobacco-into-airplane-fuel-biofuels-renewables Meet the US farmers turning their tobacco into airplane fuel]=== | ===2016: [https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jul/06/us-farmers-turning-tobacco-into-airplane-fuel-biofuels-renewables Meet the US farmers turning their tobacco into airplane fuel]=== | ||
*"Since 2009, the US biofuel company Tyton BioEnergy Systems has partnered with agronomists from Virginia Tech and North Carolina State University and tobacco growers to research the potential for turning tobacco into biomass." | *"Since 2009, the US biofuel company Tyton BioEnergy Systems has partnered with agronomists from Virginia Tech and North Carolina State University and tobacco growers to research the potential for turning tobacco into biomass." | ||
===2014: [https://www.kqed.org/quest/68329/tobacco-gets-a-makeover-as-new-source-for-biofuel Tobacco Gets a Makeover as New Source for Biofuel]=== | |||
*"The most common source for biofuel in the U.S. is corn, which is fermented and turned into an alcohol, called ethanol, that is added to gasoline and used to power automobiles. To create biofuel from tobacco, researchers have added genes from algae and cyanobacteria that can process sunlight more efficiently than corn does and convert the sunlight into hydrocarbons via photosynthesis. Hydrocarbons in the engineered tobacco are a form of bio-crude oil, an antecedent to fuel. This bio-crude can be stored in the leaves and directly removed and processed to create biofuel, which requires fewer steps than making ethanol, the researchers say." | |||
==Multiple Uses== | ==Multiple Uses== | ||