Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2

[FourScore]

Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2
AP
By JAY LINDSAY, – Sun Feb 27, 9:15 pm ET





CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A Massachusetts biotechnology company says it can produce the fuel that runs Jaguars and jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow.

Joule Unlimited has invented a genetically-engineered organism that it says simply secretes diesel fuel or ethanol wherever it finds sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based company says it can manipulate the organism to produce the renewable fuels on demand at unprecedented rates, and can do it in facilities large and small at costs comparable to the cheapest fossil fuels...

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...Joule was founded in 2007. In the last year, it's roughly doubled its employees to 70, closed a $30 million second round of private funding in April and added John Podesta, former White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, to its board of directors...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110228/ap_on_re_us/us_growing_fuel

[Little Star]

1. Nice! Hope it goes somewhere.

[FLPanhandle]

2. It would be nice it it turns out to be commercially viable.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. I make energy with sun, water and CO2 as well.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Ah, but can you run a Jaguar with that?

LOL, I guess you could if you converted the engine to steam.

[WatsonT]

6. Actually . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. Is a Volvo close enough?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG8iR5DRLpw&feature=player_embedded

[WatsonT]

5. No franken fuel

GM is evil!

I only use organic, hormone free gasoline, just as nature intended.

[tridim]

7. You don't use free-range petroleum?

[WatsonT]

8. I try

but it's hard to find some times.

I also prefer gasoline that has been produced locally and sold at a co-op.

[loudsue]

10. I am really glad there are American companies involved in this type of alternative

fuel research. Are they going to take their company public any time soon?

[immoderate]

11. I welcome our cyanobacterial overlords!

Did anyone ask what happens if this stuff gets loose? :shrug: (Screenwriters take note.)

Otherwise, it could change the world in a good way.

--imm