More on ethanol from cellulose

They're calling it celulosic ethanol now, fancy name, but nothing different from bioethanol or drinking alcohol.
Anyhow, cellulose is all around us, and has often been a waste product of a lot of processes. Plant stalks, corn cobs, cut grass and kudzu are full of it. You could go through the expensive process of turning it into paper, cotton has a use of its own of course, but turning cellulose into fuel is a new matter.

I've written about the Q-bacterium in the past, well, there's a new player on the "fuel from grass" battlefield, the Chesapeake Bay marsh grass bacterium, S. degradans with it's zymetis enzyme. This comes at the same time as a large-scale study on the production of switchgrass for ethanol synthesis.

Mankind will find a way ...