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Posted on 03/29/2011 12:40:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
University of Minnesota researchers are a key step closer to making renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight and carbon dioxide.
Graduate student Janice Frias, who earned her doctorate in January, made the critical step by figuring out how to use a protein to transform fatty acids produced by the bacteria into ketones, which can be cracked to make hydrocarbon fuels. The university is filing patents on the process.
The research is published in the April 1 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Frias, whose advisor was Larry Wackett, Distinguished McKnight Professor of Biochemistry, is lead author. Other team members include organic chemist Jack Richman, a researcher in the College of Biological Sciences' Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, and undergraduate Jasmine Erickson, a junior in the College of Biological Sciences. Wackett, who is senior author, is a faculty member in the College of Biological Sciences and the university's BioTechnology Institute.
Aditya Bhan and Lanny Schmidt, chemical engineering professors in the College of Science and Engineering, are turning the ketones into diesel fuel using catalytic technology they have developed. The ability to produce ketones opens the door to making petroleum-like hydrocarbon fuels using only bacteria, sunlight and carbon dioxide.
"There is enormous interest in using carbon dioxide to make hydrocarbon fuels," Wackett says. "CO2 is the major greenhouse gas mediating global climate change, so removing it from the atmosphere is good for the environment. It's also free. And we can use the same infrastructure to process and transport this new hydrocarbon fuel that we use for fossil fuels."
The research is funded by a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-energy (ARPA-e) program, created to stimulate American leadership in renewable energy technology.
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Artificial Petroleum ping!..............
Sadly, such technology violates the penumbra of the Constitution.
Yay! We’e just one more research discovery away from $100 a gallon gasoline!
...oh, wait.
Ha!
We’re some more research away from letting Arabs kill themselves in the middle east and not wasting our money and American lives getting involved in their mess.
We're runnign $223B monthly deficits. I guess the bulk of our deficit spending goes toward far more important things -- like cowboy poetry.
If you just want a fuel, I wonder if the ketones can be used straight without cracking?
And they say CO2 is free, but it’s still a minor portion of the air.
So I propose to put these bacteriological fuel factories near breweries, so the CO2 from fermentation can be used. If we want more fuel, build more breweries.
The researchers should stop their research. /sarc
The minute this becomes a reality, the libtards will find 100 reasons not to move forward. Gnats allergic to the emissions, left-handed goats with brown fur suffer mild mood swings when exposed, or illegal aliens won’t be able to afford to have their ‘73 Chevys retrofitted.
It’s made from fat, so PETA will oppose it, so will the health police (everyone knows fat is bad for you).
The end product is petroleum, so the greenies will hate it (you still have to burn it).
It uses ketones, so the Scientologist will oppose it (they’ve been trying to rid the world of ketones).
It might actually work, which means everyone on the left will oppose it.
Darn I thought it read “manmade plutonium”. If we could make that from scratch...
How hard is it to scrub Carbon Dioxide from the air, to feed this process? or do we need to hook the process to factories that generate CO2? Or will we all have to wear facemasks to collect the C02 that we breathe out?
But what about the fatty acids they were converting? What happened to those? Where did they come from?
Will Soylent Green be the next motor fuel as well (when the obese are liposuctioned or rendered?)
Funny, innit, how the greens protest anything that reduces our dependence on foreign oil?
Still with the lies...
Redwood, Oak, Walnut, Pecan, Elm, Maple, Birch, and other trees are planning to protest as I type...
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"CO2 is the major greenhouse gas mediating global climate change, so removing it from the atmosphere is good for the environment.
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CO2 is a miniscule portion of the atmosphere.
For an early attempt to explain how stuff works in the atmosphere and a very lively discussion see this :
It would not work!
The bacteria would get drunk from the beer residue and just lay around all day, scratching, burping and looking for the remote. They would not do ANY work at making fuel!
/sarc
How did all the gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons get onto Saturn's moon, Titan?
Did Titan once contain the lifeforms necessary to make 'fossil' fuel?
this story comes on the heels of the “artificial leaf” announcement yesterday, and there have been others recently. They won’t all pan out, but there are enough of them coming online that a few might.
Making petroleum? Just drain some outta one the old cars in the yard. When crawling under them just don’t hit the slab rocks.
lol
Methane is a primordial gas......God put it here.....or there.............
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