QUEST Designer Biofuels

Part of Series QUEST
Length 05:01
Licensor KQED
Producer(s) Andrea Kissack
Formats Debut (not aired nationally), Documentary, News analysis
Topics Environment, Public Affairs, Science
Produced February, 2008
Added to PRX March 26, 2008
 

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Summary:

How do you make fuel from plants?

Website:

http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/view/754

Tones:

Authoritative, NPR NewsMagazine-y, Sound Rich

Language:

English

Description:



Taking the energy from plants and making a gasoline alternative to run our cars has great promise but there are huge problems to solve. The next answer may not come from Saudi Arabia but from a UC Berkeley lab, a Silicon Valley start up or a local researcher working in the jungles of Costa Rica.