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Can farm waste help clean up the world’s dirty cargo ships?

A California startup backed by the shipping giant Maersk wants to turn America’s farm waste into clean fuel for mammoth container ships. The company, WasteFuel, is working to build facilities across the country that produce “bio-methanol” from corn husks, discarded wheat straw, and other agricultural scraps – a low-carbon fuel produced in tiny volumes today. GRIST