Alternative-fuels pioneer receives first-ever $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 2, 2007) Your car could soon become a vegetarian thanks to a process for cost-effectively converting cellulosic biomass, such as grass, wood, wheat and rice straw, into ethanol that can be used for fuel. When it does, it will be due to inventors such as Lee Lynd, professor of engineering and adjunct professor of biology at Dartmouth College, and co-founder of Mascoma Cor...