Oddly enough, my current read, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Micheal Pollan, gets
into the 1970's discovery of enzymes used to break down starches and thus
create high fructose corn syrup (sweet as sugar, only cheaper), much like the
article Mayf posted about creating hydrogen.
So it's safe to say ADM and Cargill (the largest privately owned company in the
US) who together control the "wet milling" of corn in this country, will
certainly be looking hard at this methodology.
It's a very good read, BTW, illustrating how Corporate America is able to find
double digit growth where population growth is much more modest and demand for
food inelastic (good for shareholders, pretty bad for everybody else however).
BJ
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