Micro-Organism Produces Fuel From Sunlight
A bio-engineered bacteria holds the promise of solving the energy crisis.
Joule Biotechnologies, a startup based in Massachusetts, has bio-engineered blue-green algae to make it produce hydrocarbon fuel directly from sunlight. The algae, also known as cyanobacteria, is combined with enzymes that capture sunlight to make a biofuel that can replace conventional fuels at less than half their cost.
The company has filed a patent for their technology and hopes to commercially produce biofuel in the next two years.
[via Fast Company]