Honda Makes Strides In Biofuel Development

Washington DC September 15, 2006; The AIADA newsletter reported that Honda announced yesterday that it has developed a way to make ethanol fuel from plant waste matter.

The process has the potential to expand the use of biofuels that fight global warming, reports BusinessWeek.

Honda R&D Co. developed the technology with the Kyoto-based Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth.

By tapping far greater supplies of inedible plant matter, such as stalks, leaves and rice straw, the new fuel takes a step toward making biofuels more practical, the automaker said : "Expansion of biomass utilization holds enormous potential as a major step forward toward the realization of an energy sustainable society."