Craig Venter, the cowboy / geneticist / souping genius for the race to decode the human genome, has recently been to understand how algal oil Gushers min. To solve this problem - the production of fuel for less - given the rare distinction to have won two of the modern era of the greatest scientific problems.
Apparently their vast soup effortserzos extract fuels are paying off yesterday Activist Venter has a vote of confidence by the huge tanker Exxon Mobil (XOM), a multi-year agreement for R & D in the synthesis of the genome Venter (GIS). The agreement is one of the largest so far in the new segment of algae biofuels. Exxon has invested 600 million U.S. dollars in sales in the algae biofuels, including 300 million U.S. dollars in GIS itself
The capital injection is used to support five years of dResearch he founded in San Diego startup, which has a very unMCO dede venture capital company Draper Fisher Jurvetson and the giant oil tanker BP. Exxon, however, is foreseen that in 10 years, algae produce large amounts of transportation fuels.
The attractiveness of algae as a biofuel reactor is its ability to reproduce and grow. The algae can double bodymass in less than 24 hours, that the earth at the base of plants to produce large Ments of oil is not. And in contrast to the mass at the base of plants, algae can be grown in plastic or stacked on the sides of buildings. But algae can be fickle and sensitive to contamination and pollution. So far nobody has such a large production of biofuels on the algae.
Venter and Exxon already confront in a fierce competition for human resources Biopetroleum, a rival based in Hawaii, thewith Royal Dutch Shell in the research. HR has a number of peaks in the upper part of the biology of algae, including Robert Bidigare, director of the Center for Marine Microbial Ecology and Diversity at the University of Hawaii.
Hawaii and the Venter team seems to have a shotgun approach that Venter is not unlike the well-known technology of mapping the DNA, with each team quickly test thousands of algal cells, the genes for the production and storage of large quantities of oil. To search for oils rather than starch ethanol, the two teams are the direct integration into the process of refining
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