Renmatix is a company that has recognized, like many of us, that our dependence on oil is not good for us economically, nor is it good for the environment. In order to try and fix this, they are opening a research center in Pennsylvania to complete the development of a process they have found that turns agricultural waste into fuel for automobile fuel and other useful chemicals.
This process breaks down the chemicals in the waste, some of these chemicals are useful in the development of fuels such as cellulose. To extract these chemicals Renmatix is simply using water at extremely high pressures and temperatures. This process does the equivalent of the work that some microorganisms are capable of in converting the waste into ethanol. This process is much more sound economically than using corn to produce ethanol because it prevents having to reallocate supplies from the production of food.
If this process is proven to be more effective and more efficient than producing gasoline or other forms of fuel then it would greatly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals released in the air and will put to good use some of the waste that currently has no other use.
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