UC Berkley scientists talk about their research on converting carbon in tobacco to fuel.

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I am proposing a new solution to the algae biofuel industry. Using electrical stimulation, I have created biodiesel from algae for $0.96/gallon. Come view this presentation of my project

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Life Technologies has announced the launch of GeneArt® Precision TALs, generally referred to as TAL effector proteins (TALE), which will allow... - http://www.algaeindustrymagazine.com/geneart®-precision-tals/?utm_source=feedburner

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Scientists engineer the E.Coli to produce methyl ketones - high cetane numbers make them good candidates of biofuels but they have a high melting point which is an unfavorable fuel property. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314101245.htm

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Through extensive testing I've performed over the last 2 months, I've concluded that the method of Low Energy Voltaic Impulse(LEVI) destroys specific protein channels along the cell wall membrane, allowing for lipid bodies (and some cytoplasmic fluids) to be secreted by the cell. By pumping this device with 120 gallons of water I was able to produce 4.35 Liters of lipid bodies which converted to 4.1 Liters of diesel fuel via transesterification. To run down 2 D cell batteries, I needed to perform this test 82 times producing just over 90 gallons of diesel fuel, and the lowest cost fuel conversion price of $0.03

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Andreas Mershin, a research scientist in the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, noticed that while most of the pines had bare trunks and a canopy of branches only at the very top, a few had small branches all the way down the length of the trunk, capturing any sunlight that trickled down from above. He decided to create a microscopic forest on a chip, with PS-I coating his “trees” from top to bottom.

Turning that insight into a practical device took years of work, but in the end Mershin was able to create a tiny forest of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires as well as a sponge-like titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructure coated with the light-collecting material derived from bacteria. The nanowires not only served as a supporting structure for the material, but also as wires to carry the flow of electrons generated by the molecules down to the supporting layer of material, from which it could be connected to a circuit. “It’s like an electric nanoforest,” he says.

Read More - http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/biosolar-0203.html

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Wolf Biodiesel - http://wolfbiodiesel.com/

It's very relevant to show numerous graphics in the description of how I go about lipid production through electrical impulsing so I have a link to my website where I've posted a blog about this process.

To view the page, Click on "Blog" in the top right and Select "LIPID VACUOLE FUSION AND L.E.V.I."

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Sewage-eating algae used to treat wastewater in test project | The Tribune & SanLuisObispo.com - http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/01/25/1922687/algae-wastewater-clean-sewage.html

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Scientists at Bio Architecture Lab tinkered with the superbug e.coli and turned it into a microbe that can turn the sugar in seaweed into fuel, and ma - http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/bioengineering-ecoli-to-turn-seaweed-into-fuel/12264?tag=nl.e660

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This model I made uses old pop cans painted black to dry algae. Filtered algae sludge is fills the pop cans. The pop cans then sit out in the sun for 3 hours, evaporating out the water in the algae to an 8%water content. The dry meal can be used for composters, fertilizer and diesel fuel production. (Every dry kilogram of algae has sequestered 2.2 kilograms of CO2)

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Evaluation of microbial biofilm communities from an Alberta oil sands tailings pond - Golby - 2011 - FEMS Microbiology Ecology - Wiley Online Library - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01212.x/full

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In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs. - http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/researchers_create_living_neon_signs_composed_of_millions_of_glowing_bacter/

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Biofuel research boosted by discovery of how cyanobacteria make energy - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111215141613.htm?utm_source=feedburner

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E. coli bacteria engineered to eat switchgrass and make transportation fuels - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111129123307.htm?utm_source=feedburner

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Research and Innovation in Low Cost , Green & Clean Technologies to provide food and feed to our communities and hungry people, upgrade to efficient and integrated production systems, entrepreneuships and community development, environmental protection and conservation, mitigation & adaptation to climate change. Algal Technology as a key-stone for integrated systems (water treatment, food production, CO2 capture and others) in urban and rural environments. Eolian & solar energy (chemical or photosynthetic, thermic and photovoltaic) to move production systems more efficiently.

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Slowly but surely, the industry is embracing renewable feedstocks to replace at least some petroleum-derived processes. Those companies that don’ - http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/business-brains/report-green-chemistry-could-save-companies-655b/19825?tag=nl.e660

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Nano-tech makes medicine greener – University of Copenhagen - http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2011/2011.11/nano-tech_makes_medicine_greener/

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Biomimicry offers compelling and efficient strategies to help solve urgent design challenges. But it’s a field that could also use improvement, - http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/q-a-how-biomimicry-succeeds-and-fails-according-to-chris-garvin-terrapin-bright-green/1552?tag=nl.e660

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(2007) Ono, Cuello. Biosystems Engineering. Read by researchers in: 50% Biological Sciences, 17% Earth Sciences. Microalgal biofixation of carbon dioxide (CO2) in photobioreactors is a promising strategy for CO2 mitigation, addressing the increased concerns over greenhouse gases (GHG). Previous studies on the... - http://www.mendeley.com/research/carbon-dioxide-mitigation-using-thermophilic-cyanobacteria/

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As we reach the technically feasible limits of the current electronic technology of the desktop computer, a new breed of biologically modified (DNA) computers of the future may have the capacity to impact and alter desktop computing forever, through miniaturization that could bring huge increases of computing capacity, power, storage and speed. Biological computing is a form of computing which uses DNA, biochemistry and molecular biology, instead of the traditional silicon-based computer technologies. Biological computing, or, more generally, biomolecular computing, is a fast developing interdisciplinary area. DNA might one day be integrated into a computer chip to create a so-called…

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