Breakthrough: Using Microbes to Make Advanced Biofuels

Multimedia · 19 June 2012

OSTI ID:1046408

Keasling, Jay ^[1]

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1. OSTI

Jay Keasling, Berkeley Lab's Associate Director for Bioscience and the CEO of DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), explains how special strains of microbes can convert the biomass of non-food crops and agricultural waste into fuels for cars, trucks and jet planes. Keasling's research team at JBEI has developed E.coli that can digest switchgrass and convert the plant sugars into gasoline, diesel or jet fuel, not unlike the process by which beer is brewed.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1046408
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

09 BIOMASS FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
BERKELEY LAB
BIOFUELS
DOE
ENERGY
JAY KEASLING
JBEI
LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LAB