Genetically Modified Tobacco Plants As Biofuel

Monday, April 14, 2014 - 11:11 in Mathematics & Economics

Tobacco is a high-density crop that is mowed several times throughout its cycle and that can be a good thing, because it can produce as much as 160 tons of fresh biomass per hectare. Biomass that is suitable for producing bioethanol.  Smoking cigarettes is bad but renewable energy is good, tobacco just needs some help from science. read more

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