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  1. There is considerable interest in the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to liquid fuels to provide substitutes for fossil fuels. Pretreatments, conducted to reduce biomass recalcitrance, usually remove at ...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Xiaowen Chen, Bryon S Donohoe, Peter N Ciesielski, Rui Katahira, Erik M Kuhn, Kabindra Kafle, Christopher M Lee, Sunkyu Park, Seong H Kim, Melvin P Tucker, Michael E Himmel and David K Johnson
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:57
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  2. Lipase-catalyzed biotransformation of acylglycerides or fatty acids into biodiesel via immobilized enzymes or whole cell catalysts has been considered as one of the most promising methods to produce renewable ...

    Authors: Jinyong Yan, Xianliang Zheng, Lei Du and Shengying Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:55
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  3. Economically feasible cellulosic ethanol production requires that the process can be operated at high solid loadings, which currently imparts technical challenges including inefficient mixing leading to heat a...

    Authors: Rakesh Koppram and Lisbeth Olsson
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:54
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  4. Bioethanol production from biomass is becoming a hot topic internationally. Traditional static solid state fermentation (TS-SSF) for bioethanol production is similar to the traditional method of intermittent o...

    Authors: Hong-Zhang Chen, Zhi-Hua Liu and Shu-Hua Dai
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:53
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2015 8:182

  5. Many different feedstocks are under consideration for the practical production of biofuels from lignocellulosic materials. The best choice under any particular combination of economic, agronomic, and environme...

    Authors: Dina Jabbour, Evan R Angelos, Achira Mukhopadhyay, Alec Womboldt, Melissa S Borrusch and Jonathan D Walton
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:52
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  6. Furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) are the degradation products of lignocellulose during pretreatment operations and significantly inhibit the consequent enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation processes...

    Authors: Hong Ran, Jian Zhang, Qiuqiang Gao, Zhanglin Lin and Jie Bao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:51
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  7. Agave, which is well known for tequila and other liquor production in Mexico, has recently gained attention because of its attractive potential to launch sustainable bioenergy feedstock solutions for semi-arid...

    Authors: Hongjia Li, Sivakumar Pattathil, Marcus B Foston, Shi-You Ding, Rajeev Kumar, Xiadi Gao, Ashutosh Mittal, John M Yarbrough, Michael E Himmel, Arthur J Ragauskas, Michael G Hahn and Charles E Wyman
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:50
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  8. Lignocellulose hydrolyzates present difficult substrates for ethanol production by the most commonly applied microorganism in the fermentation industries, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. High resistance towards inhibit...

    Authors: Vera Novy, Stefan Krahulec, Manfred Wegleiter, Gerdt Müller, Karin Longus, Mario Klimacek and Bernd Nidetzky
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:49
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  9. A two-stage chemical pretreatment of corn stover is investigated comprising an NaOH pre-extraction followed by an alkaline hydrogen peroxide (AHP) post-treatment. We propose that conventional one-stage AHP pre...

    Authors: Tongjun Liu, Daniel L Williams, Sivakumar Pattathil, Muyang Li, Michael G Hahn and David B Hodge
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:48
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  10. Lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable, naturally mass-produced form of stored solar energy. Thermochemical pretreatment processes have been developed to address the challenge of biomass recalcitrance, however...

    Authors: Peter N Ciesielski, Wei Wang, Xiaowen Chen, Todd B Vinzant, Melvin P Tucker, Stephen R Decker, Michael E Himmel, David K Johnson and Bryon S Donohoe
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:47
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  11. The production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic feedstocks will only become economically feasible when the majority of cellulosic and hemicellulosic biopolymers can be efficiently converted into bioethanol. ...

    Authors: Ana Cristina Colabardini, Laure Nicolas Annick Ries, Neil Andrew Brown, Thaila Fernanda dos Reis, Marcela Savoldi, Maria Helena S Goldman, João Filipe Menino, Fernando Rodrigues and Gustavo Henrique Goldman
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:46
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  12. The use of a microwave synthesis reactor has allowed kinetic data for the hydrothermal reactions of straw biomass to be established from short times, avoiding corrections required for slow heating in conventio...

    Authors: Roger Ibbett, Sanyasi Gaddipati, Darren Greetham, Sandra Hill and Greg Tucker
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:45
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  13. 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD) is a high-value chemical usually produced petrochemically but which can also be synthesized by some bacteria. To date, Klebsiella pneumoniae is the most powerful 2,3-BD producer which can ...

    Authors: Xuewu Guo, Chunhong Cao, Yazhou Wang, Chaoqun Li, Mingyue Wu, Yefu Chen, Cuiying Zhang, Huadong Pei and Dongguang Xiao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:44
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  14. Cane molasses, an important residue of the sugar industry, have the potential as a cost-effective carbon source that could serve as nutrients for industrial enzyme-producing microorganisms, especially filament...

    Authors: Jun He, Ai-min Wu, Daiwen Chen, Bing Yu, Xiangbing Mao, Ping Zheng, Jie Yu and Gang Tian
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:43
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  16. The filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei is a major producer of lignocellulolytic enzymes utilized by bioethanol industries. However, to achieve low cost second generation bioethanol production on an industrial ...

    Authors: Lilian dos Santos Castro, Wellington Ramos Pedersoli, Amanda Cristina Campos Antoniêto, Andrei Stecca Steindorff, Rafael Silva-Rocha, Nilce M Martinez-Rossi, Antonio Rossi, Neil Andrew Brown, Gustavo H Goldman, Vitor M Faça, Gabriela F Persinoti and Roberto Nascimento Silva
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:41
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  17. Clostridium autoethanogenum strain JA1-1 (DSM 10061) is an acetogen capable of fermenting CO, CO2 and H2 (e.g. from syngas or waste gases) into biofuel ethanol and commodity chemicals such as 2,3-butanediol. A dr...

    Authors: Steven D Brown, Shilpa Nagaraju, Sagar Utturkar, Sashini De Tissera, Simón Segovia, Wayne Mitchell, Miriam L Land, Asela Dassanayake and Michael Köpke
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:40
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    The Related Article to this article has been published in Scientific Data 2015 2:150014

  18. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is an important forage crop in North America owing to its high biomass production, perennial nature and ability to fix nitrogen. Feruloyl esterase (EC 3.1.1.73) hydrolyzes ester linkages...

    Authors: Ajay Badhan, Long Jin, Yuxi Wang, Shuyou Han, Katarzyna Kowalczys, Daniel CW Brown, Carlos Juarez Ayala, Marysia Latoszek-Green, Brian Miki, Adrian Tsang and Tim McAllister
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:39
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  19. Non-productive cellulase adsorption onto lignin has always been deemed to negatively affect the enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic feedstocks. Therefore, understanding enzyme-lignin interactions is essent...

    Authors: Fenfen Guo, Wenjing Shi, Wan Sun, Xuezhi Li, Feifei Wang, Jian Zhao and Yinbo Qu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:38
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  21. Triacylglycerols (TAGs) are the most abundant form of storage oil in plants. They consist of three fatty acid chains (usually C16 or C18) covalently linked to glycerol. SDP1 is a specific lipase for the first ...

    Authors: Mi Jung Kim, Seong Wook Yang, Hui-Zhu Mao, Sivaramakrishnan P Veena, Jun-Lin Yin and Nam-Hai Chua
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:36
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  22. The issue of indirect land use changes (ILUC) caused by the promotion of transport biofuels has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this paper, we reviewed the current literature on modelling ...

    Authors: Serina Ahlgren and Lorenzo Di Lucia
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:35
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:40

  23. The yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima, previously utilised as a biological control agent, was evaluated for its potential to produce lipids for biofuel production.

    Authors: Fabio Santamauro, Fraeya M Whiffin, Rod J Scott and Christopher J Chuck
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:34
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:42

  24. Worldwide, ethylene is the most produced organic compound. It serves as a building block for a wide variety of plastics, textiles, and chemicals, and a process has been developed for its conversion into liquid...

    Authors: Carrie Eckert, Wu Xu, Wei Xiong, Sean Lynch, Justin Ungerer, Ling Tao, Ryan Gill, Pin-Ching Maness and Jianping Yu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:33
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  25. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), which contain two or more double bonds in their backbone, are the focus of intensive global research, because of their nutritional value, medicinal applications, and potent...

    Authors: Gao Chen, Shujie Qu, Qiang Wang, Fei Bian, Zhenying Peng, Yan Zhang, Haitao Ge, Jinhui Yu, Ning Xuan, Yuping Bi and Qingfang He
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:32
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  26. D-glucose, D-xylose and L-arabinose are the three major monosaccharides in plant cell walls. Complete utilization of all three sugars is still a bottleneck for second-generation cellulolytic bioethanol product...

    Authors: Jingen Li, Liangcai Lin, Huiyan Li, Chaoguang Tian and Yanhe Ma
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:31
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  27. Shortages in fresh water supplies today affects more than 1 billion people worldwide. Phytoremediation strategies, based on the abilities of aquatic plants to recycle nutrients offer an attractive solution for...

    Authors: Nazim Muradov, Mohamed Taha, Ana F Miranda, Krishna Kadali, Amit Gujar, Simone Rochfort, Trevor Stevenson, Andrew S Ball and Aidyn Mouradov
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:30
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  28. Enzymatic biodiesel is becoming an increasingly popular topic in bioenergy literature because of its potential to overcome the problems posed by chemical processes. However, the high cost of the enzymatic proc...

    Authors: Silvia Cesarini, Rune Falkenberg Haller, Pilar Diaz and Per Munk Nielsen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:29
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  29. Cytochrome P450 OleTJE from Jeotgalicoccus sp. ATCC 8456, a new member of the CYP152 peroxygenase family, was recently found to catalyze the unusual decarboxylation of long-chain fatty acids to form α-alkenes usi...

    Authors: Yi Liu, Cong Wang, Jinyong Yan, Wei Zhang, Wenna Guan, Xuefeng Lu and Shengying Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:28
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  30. Enzymes still comprise a major part of ethanol production costs from lignocellulose raw materials. Irreversible binding of enzymes to the residual substrate prevents their reuse and no efficient methods for re...

    Authors: Annukka Pakarinen, Mai Østergaard Haven, Demi Tristan Djajadi, Anikó Várnai, Terhi Puranen and Liisa Viikari
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:27
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  31. Sugarcane is an attractive feedstock for ethanol production, especially if the lignocellulosic fraction can also be treated in second generation (2G) ethanol plants. However, the profitability of 2G ethanol is...

    Authors: Stefano Macrelli, Mats Galbe and Ola Wallberg
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:26
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  32. Clostridium cellulolyticum can degrade lignocellulosic biomass, and ferment the soluble sugars to produce valuable chemicals such as lactate, acetate, ethanol and hydrogen. However, the cellulose utilization effi...

    Authors: Yongchao Li, Tao Xu, Timothy J Tschaplinski, Nancy L Engle, Yunfeng Yang, David E Graham, Zhili He and Jizhong Zhou
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:25
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  33. The in-depth understanding of the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose with heterogeneous morphology (that is, crystalline versus amorphous) may help develop better cellulase cocktail mixtures and biomass pretrea...

    Authors: Shuhong Gao, Chun You, Scott Renneckar, Jie Bao and Yi-Heng Percival Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:24
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  34. Dilute acid pretreatment is a promising process technology for the deconstruction of low-lignin lignocellulosic biomass, capable of producing high yields of hemicellulosic sugars and enhancing enzymatic yields...

    Authors: Joseph Shekiro III, Erik M Kuhn, Nicholas J Nagle, Melvin P Tucker, Richard T Elander and Daniel J Schell
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:23
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  35. Butyric acid as a renewable resource has become an increasingly attractive alternative to petroleum-based fuels. Clostridium tyrobutyricum ATCC 25755T is well documented as a fermentation strain for the productio...

    Authors: Xiang Zhou, Xi-Hong Lu, Xue-Hu Li, Zhi-Jun Xin, Jia-Rong Xie, Mei-Rong Zhao, Liang Wang, Wen-Yue Du and Jian-Ping Liang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:22
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  36. The production of biofuels in photosynthetic microalgae and cyanobacteria is a promising alternative to the generation of fuels from fossil resources. To be economically competitive, producer strains need to b...

    Authors: Dennis Dienst, Jens Georg, Thomas Abts, Lew Jakorew, Ekaterina Kuchmina, Thomas Börner, Annegret Wilde, Ulf Dühring, Heike Enke and Wolfgang R Hess
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:21
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  37. Pectin-rich agricultural wastes potentially represent favorable feedstocks for the sustainable production of alternative energy and bio-products. Their efficient utilization requires the conversion of all majo...

    Authors: J Philipp Benz, Ryan J Protzko, Jonas MS Andrich, Stefan Bauer, John E Dueber and Chris R Somerville
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:20
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  38. Numerous attempts have been made to improve xylose utilization in Z. mobilis including adaptive approaches. However, no one has yet found a way to overcome the reduced xylose utilization observed in fermentations...

    Authors: Ali Mohagheghi, Jeff Linger, Holly Smith, Shihui Yang, Nancy Dowe and Philip T Pienkos
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:19
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  39. Bioethanol production from various starchy materials has received much attention in recent years. α-Amylases are key enzymes in the bioconversion process of starchy biomass to biofuels, food or other products....

    Authors: Chunfang Li, Miaofen Du, Bin Cheng, Lushan Wang, Xinqiang Liu, Cuiqing Ma, Chunyu Yang and Ping Xu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:18
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  40. Microalgae can accumulate considerable amounts of lipids under different nutrient-deficient conditions, making them as one of the most promising sustainable sources for biofuel production. These inducible proc...

    Authors: Jianhua Fan, Yanbin Cui, Minxi Wan, Weiliang Wang and Yuanguang Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:17
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  41. D-2,3-butanediol has many industrial applications such as chiral reagents, solvents, anti-freeze agents, and low freezing point fuels. Traditional D-2,3-butanediol producing microorganisms, such as Klebsiella pne...

    Authors: Gaofu Qi, Yanfang Kang, Lu Li, Aifang Xiao, Shumeng Zhang, Zhiyou Wen, Dihong Xu and Shouwen Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:16
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  42. The development of advanced biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass will require the use of both efficient pretreatment methods and new biomass-deconstructing enzyme cocktails to generate sugars from lignocellul...

    Authors: John M Gladden, Joshua I Park, Jessica Bergmann, Vimalier Reyes-Ortiz, Patrik D’haeseleer, Betania F Quirino, Kenneth L Sale, Blake A Simmons and Steven W Singer
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:15
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  43. The soft rot ascomycetal fungus Trichoderma reesei is utilized for industrial production of secreted enzymes, especially lignocellulose degrading enzymes. T. reesei uses several different enzymes for the degradat...

    Authors: Mari Häkkinen, Mari J Valkonen, Ann Westerholm-Parvinen, Nina Aro, Mikko Arvas, Marika Vitikainen, Merja Penttilä, Markku Saloheimo and Tiina M Pakula
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:14
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  44. Oligocelluloses and oligoxyloses are partially hydrolyzed products from lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysis. Biomass hydrolysates usually contain monosaccharides as well as various amounts of oligosaccharides. ...

    Authors: Zhiwei Gong, Qian Wang, Hongwei Shen, Lei Wang, Haibo Xie and Zongbao K Zhao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:13
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  45. Oleaginous microorganisms, such as different yeast and algal species, can represent a sustainable alternative to plant oil for the production of biodiesel. They can accumulate fatty acids (FA) up to 70% of the...

    Authors: Diletta Ami, Riccardo Posteri, Paolo Mereghetti, Danilo Porro, Silvia Maria Doglia and Paola Branduardi
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:12
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  46. Wood cell walls are rich in cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Hence, they are important sources of renewable biomass for producing energy and green chemicals. However, extracting desired constituents from w...

    Authors: Ajaya K Biswal, Kazuo Soeno, Madhavi Latha Gandla, Peter Immerzeel, Sivakumar Pattathil, Jessica Lucenius, Ritva Serimaa, Michael G Hahn, Thomas Moritz, Leif J Jönsson, Maria Israelsson-Nordström and Ewa J Mellerowicz
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:11
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  47. The search for promising and renewable sources of carbohydrates for the production of biofuels and other biorenewables has been stimulated by an increase in global energy demand in the face of growing concern ...

    Authors: Marisa A Lima, Leonardo D Gomez, Clare G Steele-King, Rachael Simister, Oigres D Bernardinelli, Marcelo A Carvalho, Camila A Rezende, Carlos A Labate, Eduardo R deAzevedo, Simon J McQueen-Mason and Igor Polikarpov
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:10
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  48. The microbial fuel cell represents a novel technology to simultaneously generate electric power and treat wastewater. Both pure organic matter and real wastewater can be used as fuel to generate electric power...

    Authors: Zejie Wang, Taekwon Lee, Bongsu Lim, Chansoo Choi and Joonhong Park
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:9
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  49. The recombinant yeast strains displaying the heterologous cellulolytic enzymes on the cell surface using the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchoring system are considered promising biocatalysts for direct...

    Authors: Kentaro Inokuma, Tomohisa Hasunuma and Akihiko Kondo
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:8
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  50. The idea of renewable and regenerative resources has inspired research for more than a hundred years. Ideally, the only spent energy will replenish itself, like plant material, sunlight, thermal energy or wind...

    Authors: Helge Jans Janßen and Alexander Steinbüchel
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014 7:7
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