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60 minutes. An unlikely inventor / produced by Sarah Koch, Chrissy Jones.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy industries--United States.
- Energy industries.
- Biomass energy--United States.
- Biomass energy.
- Genre:
- Television news programs.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (14 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Sixty minutes
- Unlikely inventor
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- 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.
- Participant:
- Reporter, Lesley Stahl.
- Notes:
- This broadcast from June 23, 2019 ; original segment broadcast on January 6, 2019.
- Title from title screen (viewed March 08, 2024).
- OCLC:
- 1429692376
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