Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2

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Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2

By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press Jay Lindsay, Associated Press – Sun Feb 27, 5:09 pm ET
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A Massachusetts biotechnology company says it can produce the fuel that runs Jaguars and jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow.

Joule Unlimited has invented a genetically-engineered organism that it says simply secretes diesel fuel or ethanol wherever it finds sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based company says it can manipulate the organism to produce the renewable fuels on demand at unprecedented rates, and can do it in facilities large and small at costs comparable to the cheapest fossil fuels.

What can it mean? No less than "energy independence," Joule's web site tells the world, even if the world's not quite convinced.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110227/ap_on_bi_ge/us_growing_fuel

[Sonoman]

1. I heard an interview with someone from Joule.

Really intriguing, but scalability is an issue, at present.

It sounded pretty promising, but it also sounded as if current technology wasn't really up to delivering on a large scale.

Sonoman

edited because I actually went back and read the article at link, which said basically what I did, but with a lot more words.
S

[valerief]

2. Fuel that won't have to be shipped? Wow! Put those fuel makers on every roof! nt