Scientists Engineering Tobacco Plants to Produce Biofuels of the Future Sarah Beller - The Fix
go to original May 18, 2013

Biofuel researchers at UC Berkeley may keep the tobacco industry from going up in smoke. Scientists are engineering tobacco plants to produce oils that can serve as biofuels to power airplanes, cars, trucks and other machines. (AssociatedPress)

Researchers at UC Berkeley may have come up with a less damaging use for tobacco. In the video above, Peggy Lemaux, a UC Berkeley researcher in plant and microbial biology, says her team has been looking for alternative fuel sources and "tobacco was to us a perfect one because its not something people eat, and the infrastructure for growing it, harvesting it, producing it was all there."

... Researchers have already developed an extraction method, and envision that tobacco could be used to make airplane fuel, automobile fuel, and diesel fuel.

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