Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'bacteria'

Rape seed plants can clean up toxic soil with a bacterial injection

Rape seed plants can clean up toxic soil with a bacterial injection, according to my colleague Doris De Guzman on Green Chemicals Blog. The with suitable injections of bacteria, the plants grow faster and can help remove heavy metal residues...

GM Backs second generation biofuels

General Motors is getting into biofuels by backing Coskata to produce a combined pyrolysis and fermentation process (with gm bacteria that convert carbon monoxide and hydrogen to ethanol) from a wide range of waste materials. Coskata says its process: has...

What to do with leftovers

With Thanksgiving just behind us in the US and Chrismass on the horizon, now could be a good time to think about what to do with the excess food we're going to try to consume in the richer parts of...

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...

Biofuel microbe development

If its not alge then its bacteria... Bacteria to run our cars, warm our homes from PhysOrg.com The United States Department of Energy has devoted $1.6 million to sequencing the DNA of six photosynthetic bacteria that Washington University in St....