Jun
2
The Wall Street Journal picked up the Ceres press release last week about the company’s field results with hybrid switchgrass blowing most any number about the land area needed for cellulosic based biofuel production out the window. No big surprise. Hybridization has had at least a six fold impact on corn, perhaps a 3 to […]
Apr
24
Bio Hacking the Way to Make Bio Gasoline
April 24, 2009 | 7 Comments
Christopher Voigt at the University of California is genetically ‘hacking’ into the brewers yeast of ethanol fame to modify the yeast so its output isn’t ethanol but a methyl halide. The methyl halide switches over to a bio gasoline with a simple catalytic reaction. This is not a simple problem. Voigt is targeting to use […]
Apr
23
Food Plus Fuel Answers
April 23, 2009 | 4 Comments
The food vs. fuel crowd lives in ignorance and plays off the ignorance of the media to scare folks and generally just make trouble. Reality is a very different thing. Almost a complete reversal from the popular concept now so well sold. I was triggered to write today by a headline for a press release […]
Apr
20
CO2 to Methanol Fuel in One Process
April 20, 2009 | 20 Comments
Yugen Zhang, Ph.D., team leader at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore announced through a paper in the international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, where it was designated a “Hot Paper.” that the team activated carbon dioxide in a mild and non-toxic process to produce methanol, by using organocatalysts. The journal […]
Apr
13
A Major Algae Breakthrough for Fuels and Food
April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
Martin Spalding, professor and chair of the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology at Iowa State University has identified one of the key proteins in the algae responsible for concentrating and moving that CO2 into cells. “This is a real breakthrough. No one had previously identified any of the proteins that are involved in […]
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