Honda-developed super rice

[Crysmatic]

From the Sept 6 issue of Automotive Engineering International.

"Vegetation grows by receiving energy from sunlight; can we hasten the energy exchange and growth process? ...

...an energy crisis was befalling the planet, adding to the food shortage. We would do rice. Our approach involved genes. Honda had a powerful tool - it's computer analytical technology. Learn, recognize, and understand rice genes. Yamamoto said it was not generic [sic] modification, but combination of favorable genes.

Honda Research Institute (HRI), the wholly owned subsidiary of Honda R&D Co., and Nagoya University jointly became the world's first to successfully combine the "sd1" dwarf (shorter and tougher) and "gn1a" high yield genes in 2005..."

Our community has largely bred hybrids from small gene pools, with more intuition than scientific recombination. What could we do with that software?!

 

[cannarado]

Honda making real life "rice burners'

 

[Crysmatic]

lol

the irony is that, because sacchirification takes so much energy, Honda DOESN'T like the idea of using rice to make bio-ethanol...so no real ricer burners :)

I don't like bio fuels from the standpoint of stripping our food production land (more than they already are). Carbon and minerals aren't cycled any more...the best farm land in the future may be cemeteries :( We'll have to become vegans so our waste will fertilize farm land.

 

[Jsän]

lol

the irony is that, because sacchirification takes so much energy, Honda DOESN'T like the idea of using rice to make bio-ethanol...so no real ricer burners :)

sacchirification of rice doesnt take energy.
Koji is a fungus (Aspergillus oryzae) used in making of Sake and Soy sauce which turns the starches in rice (Kome) into sugars, so that the yeast can break down the sugars into alcohol/co2...

they have been doing so for centuries.

i do agree with you Crys..the bio fuel we make from corn (or any food source) on the other hand.....wastefull. ( though interestingly the rice used in Sake making has very little "waste".)
good thing Honda fixed that in 2005
http://news.mongabay.com/bioenergy/2006/09/honda-achieves-breakthrough-in.html
"Very imortant news: Honda Motor Co, one of the most innovative auto manufacturers, announced [Sept. 2006] today it has co-developed the world's first practical process for producing ethanol out of cellulosic biomass in what is a big step towards using non-edible plant materials as fuel."

Though Henry Ford achieved the same feat almost 80yrs ago with Hemp fiber to run his Hemp Made car. Around the same time, Popular Mechanics released its 1938 issue Hemp the BILLION dollar crop, (1938 money)

"Hemp is the standard fiber of the world. It has great tensile strength and durability. It is used to produce more than 5,000 textile products, ranging from rope to fine laces, and the woody "hurds" remaining after the fiber has been removed contain more than 77 percent cellulose, which can be used to produce more than 25,000 products, ranging from dynamite to Cellophane."

you would think that the "Energy Crisis" (hahahaa) would be an easy thing to avert. But then the Government wouldn't have a brokerage on life as we know it.

Now to make Cannabis Sake..