60 minutes. produced by Sarah Koch, Chrissy Jones. An unlikely inventor /
A report on Marshall Medoff, a former Boston lawyer who discovered a new innovative method of turning inedible plant-life into fuel. Without a science background, the 81-year-old eccentric found a way to extract energy from sugar-rich cellulose, the most abundant biological material on earth. With t...
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| Alternate Title: | Sixty minutes |
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| Online Access: | Streaming video from Academic Video Online |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2019. |
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| Summary: | A report on Marshall Medoff, a former Boston lawyer who discovered a new innovative method of turning inedible plant-life into fuel. Without a science background, the 81-year-old eccentric found a way to extract energy from sugar-rich cellulose, the most abundant biological material on earth. With this, his company Xyleco has been able to produce a low-calorie sugar, biodegradable plastics, and clean transportation fuel. Includes interviews with: Craig Masterman, MIT chemistry graduate and first employee of Xyleco; Robert Armstrong, former head of MIT chemical engineer/ Xyleco board of directors; Xyleco board of directors: Sir John Jennings, former Shell oil executive, Steve Chu, former Department of Energy, George Shultz, former Secretary of State, and William Perry, former Defense Secretary. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (14 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:13:15 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |