Wisconsin State Journal | July 31, 2008 | Tim Donohue 

Q. We keep hearing about alternative fuels. What will be the most likely fuel to replace gasoline?

A. Today, ethanol is a fuel additive used to replace or decrease the need for fossil fuels in trucks, automobiles and other engines. Most of this ethanol comes from the sugars within corn kernels, but the search for other sources of sugar is under way.

“The likely candidate? Ethanol made from sugars in cellulose, or ‘grassoline,’ as one of my fellow researchers likes to call it,” said Tim Donohue, a professor of bacteriology at UW-Madison and the director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.

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