Ethanol Will Soon Be Produced by the Human Urinary Tract

Global warming has again put pressure on the environment. A direct result of choosing alternative fuels has drained the United States' corn resources forcing consumers to pay more to feed their families.

In the battle to burn cleaner fuels, American's have placed undue pressure on corn supplies causing food prices to climb. Due to increased demand on corn, feed prices for cattle and chicken have driven the prices of meat to all time highs. However, be certain, scientists are finding new ways to produce fuels in the most unconventional places.

One would never think consumers would look at body excretions to power their cars, but new advancements in science are supporting just that. A microscopic bug engineered by scientists is being used to produce fuel from the human urinary tract, fungus and agave plants.

Due to our inability to keep corn supplies high enough to continue to produce ethanol, scientists are forced to look in other directions and remove corn from the equation. "There is enormous growth potential" for alternative fuels, said McKinney and Co analyst Jens Riese. "But we need to be smarter than just building the next corn ethanol plant."

With more than 100 United Stated corn refineries currently producing ethanol and 80 more being built, scientists are against a very serious time line to provide a secondary source to corn. With the nearly 5 billion gallons of ethanol being produced from nearly all edible corn kernels, it is imperative that something change.

The rise in prices is not simply due to the overuse of corn supplies. In an effort to keep up with ethanol consumption and production, more and more farmers are using their lands to grow corn rather than other produce. This inevitably lowers the supply of other consumed plants and vegetables, raising the price for the consumer.

With such a short time line, scientists are looking into termite guts, the human urinary tract and sap from palm trees for the microbes needed to replace corn as the primary source for ethanol.