Gevo, a biotech firm in Englewood, Colo., is engineering bacteria to
make isobutanol from sugarcane and cellulosic plant waste.
Efforts to
make isobutanol from bacteria alone have been underway since 2000 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began distributing grants to universities that could demonstrate successful production of liquid biofuels.
Not exact matches
With good compatibility with gasoline infrastructure,
isobutanol has properties that could
make it a direct substitute for gas as a vehicle fuel.