Another Way to Ethanol Fuel

From The Washington Post Bacterium Gets Wheels Turning on Ethanol Fuel:

"The hope is that the bacterium can be used to produce ethanol more efficiently and inexpensively and in effect recycle junk into energy. The bacterium, which is very difficult to find in nature but easily reproduced in the lab, has turned bench scientists into entrepreneurs."

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"It basically is the ultimate bottom feeder," said Jonathan Dinman, an associate professor of cell biology and molecular genetics at U-Md. "It eats what nobody else will eat -- cornstalks, leftover chaff from hay or whatever -- and can turn that into ethanol."