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| 8/25/2010 12:00am |
| Research to Watch: Building Microbial Fuel Factories |
Viewed from a biofuels perspective, biological plants waste huge amounts of energy: they use sunlight to make cellulose, starch, lignin, and seeds, some of which can then be broken down and converted into fuels. A growing body of research is seeking to genetically engineer organisms to make liquid fuels directly. Organisms optimized in this way could theoretically be an order of magnitude more efficient than technologies that make fuels from biomass.
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| 8/25/2010 12:00am |
| Case Study: Mascoma: Seeking a Market Toehold |
When the biofuels startup Mascoma launched in 2005, it hoped to capitalize on technology that would produce ethanol from wood chips and other plant waste in an efficient one-step process.
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| 8/25/2010 12:00am |
| Industry Challenges: The End of Easy Oil |
The world won't run short of petroleum in the next few decades, but there's a limited supply of easy-to-reach oil. Between now and 2030, production from such "conventional" sources will barely rise--from 79 million to 85 million barrels per day.
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| 8/25/2010 12:00am |
| Technology Overview: Making Cellulosic Biofuels Competitive |
As long as electric vehicles remain a niche, biofuels will be the most serious alternative to fossil fuels as a way to power cars and trucks. Millions of existing vehicles can run on fuels mixed with high concentrations of ethanol or biodiesel. The rest, hundreds of millions more in the U.S., can run on mixtures that include some ethanol.
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| 8/25/2010 12:00am |
| Taking Over a Car |
Researchers "break in" with software and a laptop.
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