Ethanol Crops? Lab Finds New Method To Turn Biomass Into Gasoline

The Post Chronicle
Published: May 6, 2009
by Jasmin Melvin


U.S. scientists have combined a discovery from a French garbage dump
with breakthroughs in synthetic biology to come up with a novel method for turning plant waste into gasoline, without the need of any food sources.

A synthetic biology lab at the University of California San Francisco identified a compound able to use biomass to produce a gas that can be converted into a gasoline chemically indistinguishable from fossil-fuel based petroleum.

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