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Dartmouth researchers create new ethanol-producing bacteria

Mascoma Corp is one of the two cellulosic ethanol companies that General Motors invested in earlier this year. Dr. Lee Lynd is one of Mascoma's co-founders and he and his collaborators at Dartmouth College have published a paper that gives some more insight into Mascoma's process. They have created a new genetically-engineered bacteria aimed at producing ethanol from biomass. The key to this new microbe is its ability to function at higher temperatures than the naturally-occurring types that have been used previously. The natural bacteria can't ... Read more →

New bacterial process could yield 75 billion gallons of ethanol annually Sam Abuelsamid

Those of you out there obsessed with using anti-bacterial soaps and lotions every ten minutes might want to think twice about killing off every microbe you find. There are plenty of beneficial ...

TMO Renewables claims to have found the ethanol "silver bullet" Jeremy Korzeniewski

"We believe what we've found is not far from the silver bullet, and our demonstration plant will be about showing that. We have the organism people have dreamt of -- it eats nearly anything and it ...

Gasoline: the newest biofuel? Maybe, if LS9 is successful. Jeremy Korzeniewski

What if we could speed up the process of making petroleum for use in our automobiles? Even better: what if we could just produce all of the hydrocarbons we need when we need them? Would we then have ...

Penn State uses microbes to power new fuel cell Sam Abuelsamid

There are many of you out there who are adamant that hydrogen will never be a viable option as a fuel for anything. While hydrogen is the most common energy source for fuel cells, there is nothing ...

Department of Energy wants to put bacteria to work 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The DOE is partnering with the Washington University in St. Louis to sequence the DNA of six photosynthetic bacteria. Funding of $1.6 million is being devoted to the project based on the potential for these bacteria to be a great source of biofuel in the future. The potential exists for microscopic ...

NanoLogix Scientists Make Progress in Research and Development for Biohydrogen Production 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Nano-bio-technology company Nanologix has apparently come up with a new process for producing hydrogen gas for use as a fuel. Microbiologists Dr. Sergey Gazenko and Ben Feldmann have developed a proprietary bacteria that can convert various nutrients into hydrogen. The idea of a proprietary life ...

Brewing hydrogen with bacteria 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

As many of you point out, the hydrogen economy remains on the distant horizon for a handful of reasons, one of which being the absence of an economical, safe and environmentally friendly production method. Daniel (Niels) van der Lelie, a biologist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven ...


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