We covered this about a week ago, but this article has more detail on how environmentally friendly biofuels from genetically engineered bacteria will work.

"By swapping natural genes in yeast and bacteria for synthetic ones, scientists have tricked the microbes into producing hydrocarbons—creating, in essence, billions of tiny refineries to turn simple sugars into environmentally friendly diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and biocrude."

This looks like an exciting breakthrough - fuel that works just like gas or diesel in a car, but is non-polluting and based on renewable resources.

We do live in interesting times and sometimes, unlike the Chinese proverb, that's GOOD news.

Filed under: biofuels, diesel, energy, and generic engineering

Want to get rid of all that stray CO₂ you're injecting into the atmosphere? Well, why not make lemons out of lemonade? Feed it to algae, have the algae produce biodiesel and we all win.

Perhaps best of all, this is no tiny pilot project - if this works, it goes to full scale almost immediately.

Filed under: biodiesel, energy, fuel, and automotive