{"id":7854,"date":"2013-03-14T02:10:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2013-03-14T02:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:10:58","slug":"fuel-from-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=7854","title":{"rendered":"Fuel from Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar. 14, 2013 \u2014 In the search for the fuels of tomorrow, Swedish researchers are finding inspiration in the sea. Not in offshore oil wells, but in the water where blue-green algae thrive.<\/p>\n

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Paul Hudson, a researcher at the School of Biotechnology at KTH, shows the algae used to make fuel. (Credit: Image courtesy of KTH The Royal Institute of Technology)<\/em><\/div>\n

The building blocks of blue-green algae \u2013 sunlight, carbon dioxide and bacteria \u2013 are being used by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to produce butanol, a hydrocarbon-like fuel for motor vehicles.<\/p>\n

The advantage of butanol is that the raw materials are abundant and renewable, and production has the potential to be 20 times more efficient than making ethanol from corn and sugar cane.<\/p>\n

Using genetically-modified cyanobacteria, the team linked butanol production to the algae\u2019s natural metabolism, says Paul Hudson, a researcher at the School of Biotechnology at KTH who leads the research. \u201cWith relevant genes integrated in the right place in cyanobacteria\u2019s genome, we have tricked the cells to produce butanol instead of fulfilling their normal function,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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