Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.
A growth opportunity -- Nature's storage battery -- Waste not, want not -- Where there's smoke -- The future of biofuels.
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Imagine a car fueled by chocolate, factories that run on sugarcane, or a whole city that gets its electric power from huge water tanks filled with tiny plants. with the right methods, scientists can turn many different kinds of crops, grasses, weeds, and garbage into energy sources. Biofuels shows the exciting and surprising ways that fuels made from living things are solving some of the world's energy problems.