visiting cologne Univ. was good experience. I could talk with plant biologists, and got good feedback about M.
Professor Marcel Bucher have suggested me the following option:
decompose dead body with M to enhance the growth of maize; which is used for bio-fuel. Following documents are the facts about maize fuel from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5369284.stm
-The grain required to fill the petrol tank of a Range Rover with ethanol is sufficient to feed one person per year.
-the Amazon is being burned to plant more sugar and soybeans, and Southeast Asia, where oil palm plantations are destroying the rain-forest habitat of orangutans and many other species.
-If ethanol is imported from the US, it will likely come from maize, which uses fossil fuels at every stage in the production process, from cultivation using fertilisers and tractors to processing and transportation. Growing maize appears to use 30% more energy than the finished fuel produces, and leaves eroded soils and polluted waters behind
-Meeting the 5.75% target would require, according to one authoritative study, a quarter of the EU’s arable land
Bio-tech boost
So what is to be done? The first step is to increase our understanding of how nature works to produce energy.
Amazingly, scientists do not yet have a full understanding of the workings of photosynthesis, the process by which plants use solar energy to absorb carbon dioxide and build carbohydrates.
The Swiss bio-tech firm Syngenta is developing a genetically engineered maize that can help convert itself into ethanol by growing a particular enzyme.
Others are designing trees that have less Lignin, the strength-giving substance that enables them to stand upright, but makes it more difficult to convert the tree’s cellulose into ethanol.
