The Regional Economic Development District Initiatives of South Central Pennsylvania (REDDI) and the Governor's Agriculture Renewable Energy Council will hold a conference today about biofuels at the Holiday Inn in West Manchester Township.
BP PLc and DuPont are partnering to create biofuel from sugar beets manufacturing a product called biobutanol.
Biobutanol, a rival to the corn-based fuel ethanol, can be made from a range of common crops, such as sugar cane or sugar beet, corn, wheat or cassava, and has the potential to be blended into gasoline at higher concentrations than existing biofuels without the need to retrofit vehicles. It can be used in existing fuel distribution pipelines, offers lower emissions and would give consumers more miles per gallon, DuPont officials said. http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/news/companies/energy_biofuels.reut/index.htm
