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
Online Access:Streaming video from Academic Video Online
Other Authors: Stahl, Lesley (Interviewer) Jones, Chrissy (Producer) Koch, Sarah (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published:New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2019.
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520 |a 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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