Dec
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Wed
10th
Engineering Biofuels
Instead of working on ethanol, other longer chain alcohols are getting some attention for possibly being better fuels. But the fallling price of oil seems to be threatening energy-focused startups. I like the idea of biofuels, but it seems like a pharmaceutical company might be more adept at scaling up these kinds of bioreactor-based approaches. Perhaps tabacco companies should be looking at how to convert their tabacco plant-growing technologies into biofuel solutions….