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bio diesel? - larsalan - 11-08-2012
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/combined-bacterialmetal-catalysis-turns-sugars-to-jet-fuel/
RE: bio diesel? - Purplecomputer - 11-08-2012
(11-08-2012, 07:42 AM)larsalan http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/combined-bacterialmetal-catalysis-turns-sugars-to-jet-fuel/
pretty cool, Wish We could just let these bacteria's do their thing in our garage and wake up to a plentiful source of Bio Diesel and just fill up out tank.
RE: bio diesel? - larsalan - 11-08-2012
them bacteria are the wave of the future boy. We can genetically engineer bacteria to do our bidding and they reproduce and love it. Fear the day they become sentient.
I guess they have bacteria to help decompose plastic and all kinds of stuff. So they can make diesel fuels from plastics or from natural cellulose/sugar.
Great
Myb we are like 50 yrs from it becoming commercial and like 100yrs from it moving into a garage and shed at home
I bet there will still be a few 617 about to run the shit too
RE: bio diesel? - Purplecomputer - 11-08-2012
(11-08-2012, 04:22 PM)larsalan them bacteria are the wave of the future boy. We can genetically engineer bacteria to do our bidding and they reproduce and love it. Fear the day they become sentient.
I guess they have bacteria to help decompose plastic and all kinds of stuff. So they can make diesel fuels from plastics or from natural cellulose/sugar.
Great
Myb we are like 50 yrs from it becoming commercial and like 100yrs from it moving into a garage and shed at home
I bet there will still be a few 617 about to run the shit too
Id like to be 80 years old with my 240 in the driveway (or floating) and my grandkids are all like "DA FUQ?" and im all like "FAK U"
RE: bio diesel? - sassparilla_kid - 11-09-2012
Awesome
RE: bio diesel? - SurfRodder - 06-14-2013
one of my professors at UCSD was part of the S.D. biofuels council or something like that and they are working on developing algae to make fatty acids to use in esterification reactions to make diesel like fuels... Ive been meaning to get back over there as they meet up pretty much every saturday to do cool stuff like that... my goal, once I sell my condo and get my place in the hills is to make a bioreactor to generate enough BD to be self sufficient... he tells me that the technology is there to pretty much support that (maybe 75-80 gals per week) but no where near what is required to be market competitive... they have achieved around 20% efficiency in a test tube style experiment, but as the reaction is scaled up, it loses efficiency really quickly... like only 3-4% sustainable...