CHICAGO — A propriety process for making ethanol from leftover sawmill woodchips significantly reduces the fuel’s lifetime greenhouse gas emissions relative to gasoline, a new analysis concludes.
The 60 to 80 percent relative reduction in emissions “is comparable with other wood-based bioethanol processes,” says May Wu of Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill.,
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