Biofuel: Making Fuel from Smokestack Waste
 
New Zealand-based LanzaTech (http://www.lanzatech.co.nz/) is a leader in technology that uses bacterial fermentation to convert carbon monoxide—smoke from manufacturing smokestacks—into ethanol. LanzaTech has secured $3.5 million in funding for an effort led by Khosla Ventures (http://www.khoslaventures.com/). The resulting technology could tap into biowaste sources like the world’s steel mills, which alone would generate carbon emission pollutants into fuels worth an estimated $50 billion, not to mention it would keep the pollutants out of the atmosphere in the first place. The technology to tap this resource would do so at a low cost while increasing the value of the steel industry. And that’s just one potential industry for use. The company’s press release also states that the technology will be a significant contributor to cellusolosic biofuel efforts, because it can convert syngas, produced through gasification, into ethanol. “Syngas” refers to synthesis gas, which mainly contains carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen, containing about half the energy density of natural gas. The whole press release can be read here http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=AUSASFNC.story&STORY=/www/story/04-24-2007/0004572175&EDATE=TUE+Apr+24+2007,+08:00+AM  http://www.lanzatech.co.nz/http://www.khoslaventures.com/http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=AUSASFNC.story&STORY=/www/story/04-24-2007/0004572175&EDATE=TUE+Apr+24+2007,+08:00+AMshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2
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