Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Khosla'

MIT scientists use e. coli to make butanol

Scientists at MIT are using e. coli to make iso-butanol. It will be interesting to see how its technology differs from the DuPont/BP process for biobutanol. Gevo, partly funded by Koshla ventures has an exclusive licence for the MIT technology....

Putting the bio into biogasoline

LS9 is putting the bio into biogasoline by using modified bacteria to directly produce hydrocarbons instead of ethanol or other intermediates, according to the BioConversion Blog, quoting Technology Review. LS9 has a number of big backers and is part funded...

Celeb endorsements: who' be best and why

Who do you think would be the best celeb to publically endorse biofuels and put them firmly in the public's eye.  Here's my top five 1. Willie Nelson: Bio Willie great name for a product 2. Daryl Hannah: Lots of...

Water and biofuels

OK, it seems to me that a lot of the talk about biofuels from renewable sources such as cattle waste, wheat, or cassava relies fundamentally on the amount of water available in the locations that are being farmed. My current...

Vinod Khosla: A biofuels bet on Wired

People interested in biofuels should try to get get hold of a hard copy of this month's wired magazine, or better still, 'cos its free, should go to Wired's online archive Vinod Khosla (he co-founded Sun Microsystems and is linked...