Breakthrough [electronic resource] : Using Microbes to Make Advanced Biofuels

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 666.9 Masonry adhesives
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berkeley, Calif. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2012
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 0:02:41 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 265278
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. 29 energy planning, policy, and economy; 3. 32 energy conservation, consumption, and utilization; 4. Biofuels; 5. Jbei

Tóm tắt

Jay Keasling, Berkeley Lab's Associate Director for Bioscience and the CEO of DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), explains how special strains of microbes can convert the biomass of non-food crops and agricultural waste into fuels for cars, trucks and jet planes. Keasling's research team at JBEI has developed E.coli that can digest switchgrass and convert the plant sugars into gasoline, diesel or jet fuel, not unlike the process by which beer is brewed.