Geneticaly Modified Bacteria to Produce Bio-Ethanol

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– November 16, 2010Posted in: green ideas

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A British company TMO Renewables has finally reached a breakthrough. Without having found a proper business partner locally, TMO has gone searching abroad and successfully, one should note. They’ve recently landed a 20-year mega-deal with a US-based company Fiberight to help them set up and run a system for converting food waste into an EPA-certified bio ethanol. It can be blended with fuel and to a certain proportion can be used in cars without modifying them.

This will probably bring a very uneasy discussion to an end. Some activists tend to fret about food prices and availability too much. And although growing enough food is occasionally down to the local communities (how efficient they are), the activists reckon that producing bio ethanol from corn and other crops will contribute to the world famine. They forget one important factor – prices will be influenced and fixed by lobby groups and governments regardless of whether we grow ethanol crops or not.

TMO has developed a genetically modified strain of bacteria that will convert food waste into bio ethanol in a matter of hours. The traditional methods did it in weeks and were considered too money/energy consuming to be economically viable.

Bio ethanol is a great hope for the future and any method making its production more efficient is great news.

Currently Brits are wasting around £10 billion in food every year. If a fraction of what we throw away could be converted into bio ethanol, we would instantly tap into a rich source of affordable fuel.

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3 Comments

1. Ace (1 comments)

   Posted November 25, 2010 at 1:09 PM

   Can you please tell me How to Make Ethanol at home

   thanks ACE

2. admin (4 comments)

   Posted November 25, 2010 at 4:22 PM

   I think I can. Another question is how legal it is I’ll put some info together, keep coming back.

3. larry (1 comments)

   Posted May 12, 2011 at 11:35 AM

   Isn’t it about time that we recognize the ethanol program as another subsidy to mega-farms and not a real solution to the energy crisis in the US and the world? If the same energy was directed at renewable energy sources like solar, wind, water and the tides, how long would it take for the technical superiority of our country to develop cheap, renewable energy sources that don’t damage the environment and provide inexpensive, healthy ways to power our cars, trucks, industries and homes? Ten years? Twenty years?

   Does anyone really think that this is not possible? And what of the impact on countries like Russia, China, India, Brazil, the Africas and Europe that would not have to pursue a dwindling source of energy which raises the cost of everything for everyone?

   This may not solve the world’s problems but it would surely move us in a better direction.