{"id":547558,"date":"2010-04-29T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2375"},"modified":"2010-04-29T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:12:27","slug":"electrofuel-research-project-portfolio-seeks-biofuels-from-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547558","title":{"rendered":"Electrofuel research project portfolio seeks biofuels from electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research will target innovation into new pathways to renewable energy.&#160; DOE spreads the love with funding across a number of energy themes, such as this one: electrofuels.&#160; \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026&#160; \u201cElectrofuels &#8211; Biofuels from Electricity &#8212; Today\u2019s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis \u2013 either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae.&#160; This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Instead, Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions.&#160; Theoretically, such an approach could be more than 10 times more efficient than current biomass approaches. \u201c&#160;&#160; \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Via Department of Energy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.gov\/news\/8911.htm\">Transformational Energy Research Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Sampling of organizations and their electrofuel research topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of Massachusetts Amherst: Electrofuels via Direct Electron Transfer from Electrodes to Microbes<\/li>\n<li>Pennsylvania State University: Development of Rhodobacter as a Versatile Microbial Platform for Fuels Production<\/li>\n<li>The Ohio State University: Bioconversion of Carbon Dioxide to Biofuels by Facultatively Autotrophic Hydrogen Bacteria<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Engineering Ralstonia eutropha for Production of Isobutanol (IBT) Motor Fuel from Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen &amp; Oxygen<\/li>\n<li>Ginkgo BioWorks: Engineering E. coli as an electrofuels chassis for isooctane production<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Medical School-Wyss Institute: Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Bioprocess and Microbe Engineering for Total Carbon Utilization in Biofuel Production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research will target innovation into new pathways to renewable energy.&#160; DOE spreads the love with funding across a number of energy themes, such as this one: electrofuels.&#160; \u2026 \u2026&#160; \u201cElectrofuels &#8211; Biofuels from Electricity &#8212; Today\u2019s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis \u2013 either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547558","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\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}