E.Coli could make affordable biofuel within two years
Posted by admin2 on 03 Feb 2010 at 08:54 am | Tagged as: Biofuel
Scientists have engineered the E. Coli bacteria to convert plant sugars directly into biofuel, a process that could make commercially affordable biodiesel within two years.
“The fact that our microbes can produce a diesel fuel directly from biomass with no additional chemical modifications is exciting and important,” said project leader Jay Keasling, chief executive officer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute, in a prepared statement. “Given that the costs of recovering biodiesel are nowhere near the costs required to distill ethanol, we believe our results can significantly contribute to the ultimate goal of producing scalable and cost effective advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals.”
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