Just be sure you don't heat it. As I found out heat or micro-waves
kill enzymes.
REH
pete wrote:
> Michael Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Um, this is straying kinda far off topic, but when Pete Vincent wrote:
> >
> >> As to "cellulosic biomass", that is protein,...
> >
> >I hope you were making a thinko/typo. I suppose any aggregate biomass
> >contains some protein but cellulose is a polysaccharide -- a sugar
> >polymer -- not protein -- amino acid polymer. If you bust cellulose
> >up, you get glucose. Raw wood contains a bunch of other stuff,
> >particularly lignin, but it's around 60% cellulose.
>
> Ack. Clearly a major brain lapse on my part. Don't know where it came
> from, but fortunately I never have to make any claims that I'm a chemist.
> OK, so presumably we can cook up a good broth of enzymes and biomass and
> get out glucose, which then allows the fermentation process to proceed.
> This doesn't answer my other questions, though...
>
> -Pete Vincent
