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...energy necessary to turn corn into corn syrup leaves a huge carbon footprint. According to Chloe Frank ’09, author of “A Controversial Sweetener: The Hoopla over High Fructose Corn Syrup in America,” HFCS is made by milling corn into cornstarch. The cornstarch is then broken down into glucose, and the chains of glucose molecules—thanks to added enzymes—break down to yield hyper-sweetened syrup. All of this manufacturing drastically increases the amount of resources consumed and the pollutants produced. Natural sugar, by definition, requires...
When the hawks and greens of Washington's new anti-oil coalitions talk about ethanol fueling the future car, they aren't talking about the brew distilled from cornstarch. What they are referring to is a more fiscally and environmentally defensible alcohol, brewed from prairie grasses or agricultural waste, like straw. Trouble is, the technology required to commercialize bioethanol is in its infancy...
Enzymes that help transform cornstarch into ethanol are fairly run-of-the-mill in biotech terms. The same can't be said of those needed to brew bioethanol from indigestible plant fibers. Making enzymes efficient and cheap enough for that has long been an obstacle to a viable bioethanol industry. Canada's Iogen is the only biotech firm to have shipped a batch of commercial bioethanol (see main story). But Novozymes is making waves as well. It announced in March that with $17 million in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, it had reduced the cost of enzymes for making...
What's the difference between a militant extremist who sends anthrax in an envelope and a nitwit prankster who sends cornstarch? Both are terrorists, sowing fear and wreaking havoc. Their actions have malignant and far-reaching consequences. Hoaxers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. ALEXANDER J. WERTH Farmville...
COAT Washed in Treseme shampoo; sprayed with water, hair spray and cornstarch (to whiten it up); conditioned to help pesky split ends; and fluffed up during judging...