biobutanol Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:34:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Bacteria Turn Old Newspapers Into Biofuel to Power Cars https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bacteria-turn-old-newspapers-biofuel-power-cars-20140820/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bacteria-turn-old-newspapers-biofuel-power-cars-20140820/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:34:23 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48933 There is something sacred about the unique relationship between the morning coffee and the printed newspaper, which no website can recreate. Unfortunately, this comes at the price of generating huge amount of waste, and the one who pays is our environment. But, this is old news, because scientists have now found a way to turn […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bacteria-turn-old-newspapers-biofuel-power-cars-20140820/feed/ 0 48933 High Yield Biobutanol Production via Engineered Microbes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/high-yield-biobutanol-production-via-engineered-microbes-20121024/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/high-yield-biobutanol-production-via-engineered-microbes-20121024/#respond Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:58:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27123 Clostridium acetobutylicum, the biocatalyst in biobutanol production from biomass As scientists and researchers earnestly delve for the most environmentally sound source of energy, that is, renewable,   efficiently reduces greenhouse gases emissions, and in no competition with food production, a high-yield (87% of theoretical maximum)  biobutanol production using metabolically engineered bacterium comes into the scene. Biobutanol, a liquid […]

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