{"id":320196,"date":"2010-02-14T08:33:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2170"},"modified":"2010-02-14T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T13:40:55","slug":"e-coli-possible-new-route-to-biodiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/320196","title":{"rendered":"e. coli Possible New Route to BioDiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"151\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/32\/EscherichiaColi_NIAID.jpg\/250px-EscherichiaColi_NIAID.jpg\" alt=\"e. col.\" title=\"e. col.\" \/>Scientist have long suspected they could modify an existing microbe to produce biofuel from plant products.&nbsp; They may now be one step closer with a strain of e. coli.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Scientists with the Department of Energy&#8217;s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) recently published a paper in the journal <em>Nature<\/em> explaining how they engineered the e. coli strain to spit out fatty esters (basically biodiesel) &#8230; tweaked the e. coli so that it produces more fat than it normally would in a form it normally wouldn&#8217;t, and they also made sure the bugs didn&#8217;t eat their own fatty production. &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ideally &#8230; would lead to a tiny, self-contained oil well: In comes plants, out comes fuels or chemicals. &#8230;&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; biofuels breakthroughs are published with some regularity. But no one has been able yet to turn these breakthroughs into industrial processes that can produce something useful on a large scale at reasonable cost. &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:&nbsp;<\/strong> Forbes&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/biodiesel-engineering-microbe-technology-ecotech-biofuels.html?partner=technology_newsletter\"  title=\"Forbes\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist have long suspected they could modify an existing microbe to produce biofuel from plant products.&nbsp; They may now be one step closer with a strain of e. coli. &quot;Scientists with the Department of Energy&#8217;s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) recently published a paper in the journal Nature explaining how they engineered the e. coli strain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}