Stem Corn Become New Fuel Solution

Madison - Wisconsin company managed to turn corn stalks and pine chips into fuel. Biofuel has become the first fuel from materials other than food.

Founder and chief technology officer Randy Cortright Virent Energy Systems calls this development "an important breakthrough for his company and the biofuels industry as a whole '. Virent Technologies became one of the tested technologies National Advanced Biofuels Consortium.

While ethanol biofuels could replace oil, fuel from corn or other crops can make a food crop prices to skyrocket.

"Humans do not eat the pine chips and corn stalks," said Virent Marketing Manager Kelly Morgan.

This makes it Virent use material for the fuel. Virent plan to begin fuel production in commercial quantities before the end of 2015.