Biofuels
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We've now formed a company called Amyris, and this technology that they're using can be used to make better
biofuels.
Better
biofuels
are a really big deal.
So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better
biofuels.
And who would have thought that scientists trying to cure malaria could come up with breakthroughs in
biofuels?
One of the national aeronautics goals is to develop the next generation of fuels, biofuels, using domestic and safe, friendly resources.
Well, we got started in what we call the indoor
biofuels
lab.
The seeds:
biofuels.
We have to provide food and feed and, yeah, fiber and even
biofuels
to something like seven billion people in the world today, and if anything, we're going to have the demands on agriculture increase into the future.
So more people, eating more stuff, and richer stuff, and of course having an energy crisis at the same time, where we have to replace oil with other energy sources that will ultimately have to include some kinds of
biofuels
and bio-energy sources.
Those 125 to 240 mile-per-gallon-equivalent autos can use any mixture of hydrogen fuel cells, electricity and advanced
biofuels.
The trucks and planes can realistically use hydrogen or advanced
biofuels.
We'll use
biofuels.
Well, what if we grew the
biofuels
for a road on the grass verge at the edge of the road?
That's true of European
biofuels.
Some years ago, I set out to try to understand if there was a possibility to develop
biofuels
on a scale that would actually compete with fossil fuels but not compete with agriculture for water, fertilizer or land.
The algae that grow are in a container that distributes the heat to the surrounding water, and you can harvest them and make
biofuels
and cosmetics and fertilizer and animal feed, and of course you'd have to make a large area of this, so you'd have to worry about other stakeholders like fishermen and ships and such things, but hey, we're talking about biofuels, and we know the importance of potentially getting an alternative liquid fuel.
Here you see a graph showing you the different types of crops that are being considered for making biofuels, so you can see some things like soybean, which makes 50 gallons per acre per year, or sunflower or canola or jatropha or palm, and that tall graph there shows what microalgae can contribute.
The algae that grow produce oxygen, as I've mentioned, and they also produce
biofuels
and fertilizer and food and other bi-algal products of interest.
Biofuels
production is integrated with alternative energy is integrated with aquaculture.
I set out to find a pathway to innovative production of sustainable biofuels, and en route I discovered that what's really required for sustainability is integration more than innovation.
In the middle eastern states which have access to forests and to agricultural waste, they might say, we're going to lead the nation in
biofuels.
We can use biofuels, or solar power, or hydropower, but phosphorus is an essential element, indispensable to life, and we can’t replace it.
Today, less than two percent of the world's energy consumption derives from advanced, renewable sources such as solar, wind and biofuels, less than two percent, and the reason is purely economic.
Coal and natural gas are cheaper than solar and wind, and petroleum is cheaper than
biofuels.
One converts light into sugar, the other consumes that sugar and produces
biofuels
useful for the built environment.
And it can come from
biofuels.
Direct air capture is a great example of a chemical pathway, and people are using that right now to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and manufacture
biofuels
or manufacture plastics.
I've left out tide, geothermal, fusion,
biofuels.
That's cellulosic, second generation
biofuels
from prairie grass.
We talk about
biofuels
that haven't been invented yet.
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