<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/68d9845c-e732-4f93-9781-c20f75fda9c3/1461D6F6-53E9-4B0E-8115-FD0CA0A804A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-tech-scientists-hope-to-power-cars-with-grass-clippings/" href="http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-tech-scientists-hope-to-power-cars-with-grass-clippings/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ecofriend.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-tech-scientists-hope-to-power-cars-with-grass-clippings/">Scientists hope to power cars with grass clippings</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-tech-scientists-hope-to-power-cars-with-grass-clippings/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ecofriend.org/img/3A9F52B8-4F97-4E67-8738-E8FB86F53117" alt="800px wiki grass" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-tech-scientists-hope-to-power-cars-with-grass-clippings/"><P>In Brazil, nine out of ten <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="12872334">cars</A> run on sugarcane ethanol and in the US corn-based ethanol is more of a supplement. The rise in the demand of bio-fuel has forced scientists to think of ways to produce fuel which don’t depend on food crops. Scientists at the National Science Foundation think they can produce bio-fuel from leftovers such as grass clipping and other organic waste.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-tech-scientists-hope-to-power-cars-with-grass-clippings/"><P>The latest in technology is making it possible to breakdown farm waste such as corn stalks, grass, weeds and wood and convert it into useful biofuel, thus ending the dependence on food crops. These scientists believe that they can use the existing <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="12825915">infrastructure</A> of oil pipelines, storage tanks, refineries and engines for this new fuel, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is renewable.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1461D6F6-53E9-4B0E-8115-FD0CA0A804A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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