Improvements in the speed and cost of DNA synthesis are enabling scientists to design and synthesize modified bacterial chromosomes that can be used in
the production of advanced biofuels, bio-products, renewable chemicals, bio-based specialty chemicals (pharmaceutical intermediates, fine chemicals, food ingredients), and in the health care sector as well.
Not exact matches
In order to
advance the
production of algal
biofuels into a large - scale, competitive scenario, it is fundamental that the biological processes in these organisms are well understood.»
To this end, it offers a comprehensive overview
of recent
advances on promising algal
biofuels production pathways, in terms
of technological development, opportunities and limitations.
They hope their findings will guide the development
of advanced processes to lower costs and improve the efficiency
of commercial
biofuel production.
Proponents
of the military's
biofuels program argue that the high cost
of advanced biofuels should decline as
production ramps up.
With genetically engineered microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, playing an increasing role in the green chemistry
production of valuable chemical products including therapeutic drugs,
advanced biofuels and biodegradable plastics from renewables, Cas9 is emerging as an important genome - editing tool for practitioners
of synthetic biology.
The current bill requires the Department
of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research program to deemphasize climate research in favor
of biological research, prevents DOE and the Defense Department from collaborating on
biofuels production, and strips emissions reduction from the
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) mission.
Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost
of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods),
advances in
biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen
production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)
The 2015 Survey
of Non-Starch Ethanol and Renewable Hydrocarbon
Biofuels Producers provides an inventory
of the domestic
advanced biofuels production industry as
of the end
of calendar year 2015, documenting important... Read more →
We should continue to support the very best parts
of it: the ones that encourage the
production of more
advanced and more sustainable
biofuels, for instance, or the requirement that a renewable fuel must emit less greenhouse gas than the petroleum - based fuel it would replace.
Achieving zero net carbon emissions is possible, even with continued burning
of fossil fuels, said Dr. Patrinos, but only with the development
of advanced biofuel production processes, and carbon capture and disposal or recycling technologies.
What major hurdles stand in the way
of the
production or distribution
of advanced biofuels?
(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an
Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel pro
Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate
advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel pro
advanced technologies for the
production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity
of alternative fuels
production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less
of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel
production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel
production.
Specific areas
of interest include, but are not limited to: biological, thermochemical, or thermocatalytic routes for the conversion
of lignocellulosic biomass to
advanced biofuels beyond cellulosic ethanol; microbial fuel cells for direct
production of electricity from renewable carbon sources; hydrogen
production from autotrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms; hydrocarbons and lipids from phototrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms.