tobacco leaves Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 18 May 2013 09:20:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Engineered Tobacco Leaves Produce Biofuel at Berkeley https://www.greenoptimistic.com/engineered-tobacco-leaves-produce-biofuel-at-berkeley-20130518/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/engineered-tobacco-leaves-produce-biofuel-at-berkeley-20130518/#respond Sat, 18 May 2013 09:20:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37403 Instead of smoking it, we could one day use tobacco to power cars – thanks to a project at UC Berkeley, CA. A team of scientists are now using genetically modified tobacco leaves that produce oil. The researchers have worked to isolate chlorophyll from the oil that the leaves produce so that the final product […]

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