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Os Cangaceiros
28th February 2011, 01:21
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110227/ap_on_bi_ge/us_growing_fuel


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A Massachusetts biotechnology company says it can produce the fuel that runs Jaguars and jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow.

Joule Unlimited has invented a genetically-engineered organism that it says simply secretes diesel fuel or ethanol wherever it finds sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based company says it can manipulate the organism to produce the renewable fuels on demand at unprecedented rates, and can do it in facilities large and small at costs comparable to the cheapest fossil fuels.

might be interesting.

Salyut
28th February 2011, 01:27
I'll believe it when I see it.

Ms. Max
28th February 2011, 04:08
I think this organism is called corn? At any rate, the problem is that when you burn any bio-fuel, it produces CO2, which causes global warming.

Os Cangaceiros
28th February 2011, 06:18
I think this organism is called corn?

ethanol =/= diesel

ÑóẊîöʼn
28th February 2011, 06:21
I think this organism is called corn? At any rate, the problem is that when you burn any bio-fuel, it produces CO2, which causes global warming.

Not if the CO2 was effectively already there in the first place - the problem with burning fossil fuels is that it releases CO2 that has been locked up for millions of years. CO2 from biofuels has only been locked up for a couple of years at the outermost.

piet11111
28th February 2011, 17:41
Haven't they already done this with algae ?

Salyut
1st March 2011, 21:17
Haven't they already done this with algae ?

Yes but the yield is still pretty low. These guys are using modified bacteria.