[Red Badger]

Harry Beller (foreground) and Ee-Been Goh of the Joint BioEnergy Institute have identified microbial-produced methyl ketones as strong biofuel candidates. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)

Methyl ketones were discovered more than a century ago in the aromatic evergreen rue plant. They are now used to provide scents in essential oils and flavoring in cheese, but JBEI research shows they could also serve as advanced biofuels. (Image from Wikimedia Commons)

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[Red Badger]

Knock!.............

[WellyP]

Bell-Bio Energy has been doing this for at least 5 years. Just shows how far the “gooberment” is behing the ball!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I used to play in a band in Milwaukee called “Methyl Ethyl and The Ketones. Methyl Ethyl was actress Amy Madigan.

E Coli? What could go wrong! I have to test for it all the time at the water plant and in the system.

[BitWielder1]

If we let the new technology grow on it's own merits without government subsidies or mandates, then it has a chance.
If it's forced on us before it's economically viable, it's doomed.

[TYVets]

No subsidies, no mandates what is the price per gallon at the pump?

[DManA]

Where does the glucose come from?

[camle]

before we go all otu throwing money at any ‘x’-to-oil scheme wee need to first answer hte question: is there enough ‘x’ to make this viable?

[dennisw]

I can’t see how this pans out anytime in the next 100 years...This is a welfare program for scientists just dicking around in theory. Not applicable in the real world because the numbers don’t work out...Same as Obongo’s harebrained “oil from algae” promotion. What do you expect from a semi-Kenyan airy fairy lib arts major lawyer? Good with words and demagoguery. Awful with anything scientific common sense

[count-your-change]

Interesting but how many square miles of slime ponds in the desert is it going to take to produce enough fuel for one truck per year?

[GOPJ]

Either they have something or they don’t. They don’t. This could be the algae story with a puffed up helping of ‘science talk’. They’ve got to make it on their own - not press for public support.

Bit’s right on this...