Biofuel Revolution: Could Common Bacteria Found in Soil Fuel Jet Planes
by Trenton Doyle (NZ Herald) New research has found a way to make explosive compounds using bacteria commonly found soil – which could pave the way for cleaner alternatives to jet fuel.
And with fuel prices at record highs, some scientists think now is the time to grow the biofuel industry here.
“We have big agricultural and forestry industries, so there’s a lot of feedstock – waste material – from these industries that we could give to our microorganisms,” Auckland University Associate Professor Dr Gavin Lear told Focus.
Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US were studying how to make polycyclopropanated (POP) compounds using the bacteria Streptomyces. READ MORE; includes VIDEO