Researchers are trying to turn the leftover cornstalks in farmers' fields into something you can put in your gas tank. Ryan Warner speaks with John Dorgan of the Colorado School of Mines, one of the directors of the newly created research center, which was formed with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State University.
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