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shared by Mars Base on 21 Jan 12 - No Cached

Seaweed has long made biofuel prospectors drool
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hadn’t figured out how to efficiently chew through the stuff
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Researchers have engineered a bacterium that can break down and digest seaweed’s gummy cell walls to yield ethanol and other useful compounds
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Unlike corn and many other biofuel feedstocks, seaweed doesn’t need arable land, fertilizer or freshwater
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If seaweed can be efficiently munched into ethanol, it broadens the biofuel horizon
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the team took the workhorse bacterium E. coli and within it, patched together the genes and other parts needed for superior seaweed-to-fuel conversion
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The system yields 80 percent of the theoretical maximum amount of ethanol for a given amount of biomass,
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scientists noted, and with further tweaking will probably be even more efficient
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initial breakdown products can easily be harvested for creating useful compounds such as precursors to nylon or plastics
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shared by Mars Base on 06 Aug 12 - No Cached

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