Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Microbes extract sugars from brown seaweed, fuel production ensues!

A new method of extracting previously inaccessible sugars in brown algae called Alginate relies on a GMO bacteria specifically formulated to do this task.

BURN ME

From Live Science:
The new system is like a Lego platform, said Yasuo Yoshikuni, a study researcher and chief science officer and co-founder at Bio Architecture Lab in California. With changes to the components in the process, the same microbe-based system could be used to produce a variety of products, Yoshikuni said. For instance, the system could be used to turn seaweed into a source (also called a feedstock) for other biofuels, which could include butanol — an alcohol, like ethanol, that is blended into gas — or chemicals used in biodiesel*, which has properties similar to conventional, petroleum-based diesel.


Source -> http://www.livescience.com/18018-seaweed-biofuel-ethanol.html

*Hence my interest in this

Earlier Biofuels links:
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/03/bio-fuel-from-bananas.html
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/04/wait-i-thought-corn-was-going-to-save.html
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/01/please-stop-with-corn-as-fuel.html
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/01/weird-something-else-is-wrong-with.html
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/01/four-loko-being-turned-into-ethanol.html

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