Uma empresa do estado de Massachusetts, EUA, diz que consegue produzir gasóleo/diesel a partir da luz do sol, água e CO2.
The company, the aptly named ' Joule Unlimited ', is an organism "made" that secretes diesel fuel or ethanol when it comes into contact with sunlight, water and CO2.
The company says the bacteria genetically manipulated so that the fuel on demand 'produces unprecedented quantities. This production can take place on a large and small scale, and could even complete "energy independence" could mean.
An acre (0.4 hectare) can almost 70,000 liters of diesel per year and nearly 115,000 liters of ethanol yield, the company writes on its website.
Oil industry on its head "Even if we only half right, will the world's largest industry - the oil and gas industry - on its head," says the CEO of Joule, Bill Sims against the Washington Post .
"We make big claims, which we all now have to prove. And we pushed investors under the nose," he continues. "There is no reason why this technology the world could not change."
Seeing is believing But not everyone is convinced. National Renewable Energy Laboratory researcher Philip Pienkos wonders whether the fuel produced is as easy as can be collected.
Another researcher, Timothy Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes Joules his claim where do through large scale to produce.
Sigh of relief for the earth Anyway, if the technique works on a large scale, this means that the dependence on petroleum and petroleum producing nations can take. Moreover, the oil giants may invest in the technology. Indeed, they have something to lose if the world switch to fuels that are made in other ways.
Moreover, the fuel can be reduced because the pressure on the ever dwindling oil reserves on earth can take. A further advantage is that the fuel is CO2-neutral. Incidentally captured residual CO2 are used by large industrial Installations for the production.
A final advantage is that no appeal may be made on biomass as is often the case with the production of other so-called 'renewable fuels' or biofuels. Agriculture can therefore its entire production to concentrate on foods.
The company says the bacteria genetically manipulated so that the fuel on demand 'produces unprecedented quantities. This production can take place on a large and small scale, and could even complete "energy independence" could mean.
An acre (0.4 hectare) can almost 70,000 liters of diesel per year and nearly 115,000 liters of ethanol yield, the company writes on its website.
Oil industry on its head "Even if we only half right, will the world's largest industry - the oil and gas industry - on its head," says the CEO of Joule, Bill Sims against the Washington Post .
"We make big claims, which we all now have to prove. And we pushed investors under the nose," he continues. "There is no reason why this technology the world could not change."
Seeing is believing But not everyone is convinced. National Renewable Energy Laboratory researcher Philip Pienkos wonders whether the fuel produced is as easy as can be collected.
Another researcher, Timothy Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes Joules his claim where do through large scale to produce.
Sigh of relief for the earth Anyway, if the technique works on a large scale, this means that the dependence on petroleum and petroleum producing nations can take. Moreover, the oil giants may invest in the technology. Indeed, they have something to lose if the world switch to fuels that are made in other ways.
Moreover, the fuel can be reduced because the pressure on the ever dwindling oil reserves on earth can take. A further advantage is that the fuel is CO2-neutral. Incidentally captured residual CO2 are used by large industrial Installations for the production.
A final advantage is that no appeal may be made on biomass as is often the case with the production of other so-called 'renewable fuels' or biofuels. Agriculture can therefore its entire production to concentrate on foods.
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