Common duckweed in Galicia, Spain
The latest episode in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’)
award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes
how the search for a less-expensive, sustainable source of biomass, or plant
material, for producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel has led scientists to
duckweed, that fast-growing floating plant that turns ponds and lakes green.
Based on a report by Christodoulos A. Floudas, Ph.D., in the
ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, the new podcast is
available without charge at iTunes and from www.acs.org/globalchallenges.