Making Gasoline from Bacteria
Making Gasoline from Bacteria
Technology Review - August 1, 2007
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LS9 plans to use recombinant DNA
and gene synthesis techniques to
grow hydrocarbon-producing bacteria.
The bacteria can process sugar
derived from corn kernels into
hundreds of hydrocarbons, a
substance called biocrude. The
company hopes to start selling its
biocrudes to refineries in three to
five years, but it has plenty of
competition:...
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