Jan
31
Making Fungus Make New Biofuels
January 31, 2011 | 5 Comments
Sandia National Laboratories’ biochemist Masood Hadi says the beauty of the endophytic fungi is there is no need for the cost-intensive industrial processes that are typically required to break down biomass. “These things can turn crystalline cellulosic material directly into fuel-type hydrocarbons without any mechanical breakdown.” If this can be made to work and grown […]
Dec
23
Renewable Petroleum Is Getting to Scale
December 23, 2010 | 3 Comments
LS9, with a fresh $30 million in hand is planning to ready LS9’s lead products for commercial production and support additional development and growth programs. Raising money in 2010 was tough, but all of LS9’s big investors returned for a fourth financing round plus the huge BlackRock in New York joined in. A year ago […]
Aug
10
A Sugar to Fuel Genetic Code is Found
August 10, 2010 | 10 Comments
Researchers at LS9 have discovered an alkane biosynthesis pathway, a metabolic pathway that produces alkanes in cyanobacteria for a direct, simple conversion from plant sugar to hydrocarbon fuels. Alkanes are the major hydrocarbon constituents of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Using the bacteria E. coli, with the newly identified alkane operon genetics expressed, the bacteria […]
Jun
16
Getting Bio Diesel With Molds and Fungus
June 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
One way to increase world bio oil production that would cause a low ecosystem impact is to use lipids from single-cell oil microorganisms (also called oleaginous microorganisms), which present many significant advantages over plants. Oleaginous microorganisms, such as yeasts, fungi, bacteria, and microalgae, can accumulate high levels of lipids and do not require arable land, […]
Jun
1
Will the Burning Bush Make the Best Biofuel?
June 1, 2010 | 7 Comments
The burning bush, known for its brilliant red fall foliage, could fire new advances in biofuels and low-calorie food oils. Michigan State University scientists using new low-cost DNA sequencing technology applied to seeds of the species Euonymus alatus, a common ornamental planting known as the burning bush was crucial to identifying the gene responsible for […]
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