Refineries of the future will spew out chemicals and plastics from corn sugar or wood pulp instead of from fossil fuels.

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And the feedstock, or food for the microbes, can be any type of agricultural product, from sugar cane to waste such as wheat straw and wood chips.

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Syrup is big business in Maine between late February and mid-April, when conditions are just right for sugar makers to extract sap from maples and boil it down to syrup over wood fires.

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