INHABITAT reports that clever young people exist, with an article you should read, by Morgana Matus, "17-Year-Old Builds Algae Biofuel Lab in Her Bedroom to Win $100K Intel Science Talent Search Prize".
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Showing posts with label biofuels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biofuels. Show all posts
Friday, March 22, 2013
Saturday, March 21, 2009
A Better Biofuel Bug
ACCORDING TO JENNIFER CHU'S article in MIT's Technology Review, a start-up bio-tech company called Zymetis, is testing genetically modified bacteria that efficiently convert biomass into sugar. They may be on to something.
Zymetis has genetically modified a rare, cellulose-eating bacterium to break down and convert cellulose into sugars necessary to make ethanol, and it recently completed its first commercial-scale trial. Earlier this year, the company ran the modified microbe through a series of tests in large fermenters and found that it was able to convert one ton of cellulosic plant fiber into sugar in 72 hours.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Energy Developments
That you should be aware of. When the price of oil skyrocketed, people all over the world started to investigate alternatives. This is still at a developmental level like that of aviation in 1914, but the future looks promising.
Taking Pulp to the Pump
Gasifying black liquor from pulp mills will accelerate second-generation biofuels. So people aren't buying newspapers like they used to, maybe they can make fuel.
Cheaper Cellulosic Ethanol
Qteros thinks its microbe could cut production costs.
Lean eating machines: These slender bacteria, called Q microbes, can dissolve cellulose into sugars and convert the sugar into ethanol, all in one step. Credit: QterosBacteria Make Better Alcohol Fuels
Modified E. coli produce long-chain alcohol fuels that have advantages over ethanol and butanol.
By engineering the metabolic process of the common E. coli bacteria, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have coaxed the microorganism into churning out useful long-chain alcohols that have potential as new biofuels. The bacteria-produced biofuels have between five and eight carbon atoms, compared with ethanol, which has two carbons.
By engineering the metabolic process of the common E. coli bacteria, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have coaxed the microorganism into churning out useful long-chain alcohols that have potential as new biofuels. The bacteria-produced biofuels have between five and eight carbon atoms, compared with ethanol, which has two carbons.
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