New Advanced Biofuel Identified That Can Replace Diesel Fuel

By Chris de Morsella on September 28, 2011 1 Comment advanced biofuel, bio-engineering, Bioenergy Research Center, biofuel, biosynthetic fuel, bisabolane, carbon neutral, chris de morsella, Climate Change, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, diesel, DoD, DOE, drop-in fuels, energy security, Escherichia coli, global warming, JBEI, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mario Ouellet, Pamela Peralta-Yahya, petroleum-based fuels, renewable energy, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Sesquiterpenes, synthetic biology, Taek Soon Lee

The continuing quest for advanced biofuels based off of synthetic biology has made an important advance with researchers at the Joint BioENergy Institute (JBEI) — based at the Lawrence Livermore Lab — announcing that they have bio-engineered a combination of two microbes, a yeast and a bacteria, which working together can produce a viable bio-sourced drop-in replacement for D2 diesel fuel.