Nov
8
Diesel Fuel From a New Life for an Old Fermentation Process
November 8, 2012 | 4 Comments
UC Berkeley scientists have rediscovered a long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel. Berkeley chemists and chemical engineers joined skills to produce diesel fuel from the products of the abandoned bacterial fermentation discovered nearly 100 years ago by the first president of Israel, chemist […]
Sep
29
A New Synthetic Diesel Fuel
September 29, 2011 | 4 Comments
From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory comes the announcement that researchers with the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a potential new advanced biofuel that could replace today’s standard fuel for diesel engines. It would be clean, green, renewable and produced in the U.S. JBEI research team used synthetic biology tools […]
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