The bioengineering company LS9 has successfully produced an organism that consume simple fibers like wood chips or wheat straw, and produce petroleum as waste. Greg Pal, 36 year old CEO of LS9 says he is still amazed at the level of the product's success. Dubbed LS9 Ultraclean Diesel, the microbe produced fuel can be altered to meet a number of prospective needs in fuel consumption such as volatility, oxidative stability, cetane, and cold-flow.
While engineering a fuel producing organism that could make Saudi oil obsolete may constitute a grand success, LS9 has far surpassed conventional fuels with their new found biofuel. In addition to cutting greenhouse emissions by 85% compared to standard gas, the fuel does not produce any carcinogens and is ready for use right out of the (fermenting) tank which means the fueling infrastructure can remain intact.
The pilot facility for LS9 Ultraclean or 'Green Diesel' is up and running in San Francisco with 50k-100k barrels of Green scheduled to be ready by this year. With a product that is consumer ready, involves a 1 step production process (once facilities are operational), is less harmful to both humans and the environment, can be tailored to personal use and decrease our dependency on foreign oil, LS9 projects to have a customer base in the billions in the short future.
Full article at :http://gas2.org/2009/07/20/ls9-ultraclean-diesel-green-diesel-exceeds-fuel-specs/
with more at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment
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