Nobel laureate promotes bio-energy to cut oil demand

This article was from the Central News Agency and published by the Macroview Weekly on July 13, 2005.

Nobel laureate Steve Chu recently spoke at a Taiwan's Year of Physics forum. According to him, his lab is studying the possibility of producing energy out of a symbiosis between termites and the microbes in their bodies in the hope that the new technology will help reduce oil dependency in the age of increasing oil prices.

In Chu's opinion, bio-energy is a more reliable source to cut down on fossil fuel dependency, when compared to other alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power which may not be economically efficient. This is because biofuel, which is made out of modified genes, does not pollute the environment. More importantly, living organisms grow continuously and their output is recyclable.

Chu gave several examples of how bioenergy can be and has been produced and promoted around the world. For more information, please check out this article.