A Surprising New Biofuel
2011-09-02
We may eventually end up eating it, but a far better use for it would be to burn it as fuel. And we won’t use our own–we’ll use panda poop instead! It turns out that while pandas may have trouble with sex, they have no trouble pooping, and since bamboo makes up about 99% of their diet in the wild, their guts contain bacteria that is especially effective in breaking down the cellulose in plants into nutrients. This means that their excrement contains bacteria which can break down plant material in the way that is needed to use plants like corn as a new biofuels.
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