On 01.06.10, In Energy
We’ve seen biofuels made from some pretty strange substances — tuberculosis bacteria, watermelons, and chocolate, to name a few — but a new effort to gather biofuel from tobacco leaves might win the award for best use of a carcinogenic plant. Researchers at the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratory at Thomas Jefferson University recently discovered that tweaking the genes in tobacco plants can increase oil production up to 20 times, which means that much greater amounts of biofuel can be produced from the plants.
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Post tags: alternative energy, biodiesel, biofuel, green design, oil cigarettes, sustainable design, tobacco
Originally by Ariel Schwartz from INHABITAT on January 4, 2010, 11:30am
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