Reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Protecting people & the environment. Growing in developing markets. The Applied Biosciences division,
help clients satisfy government mandates for renewable fuels. To begin, Binetti offered a look at the global biofuels market.
Ethanol is projected to rise to 20 percent of the overall transportation fuel supply. Drop in fuels and non-food feedstocks are needed.
Drivers: energy security, rural community growth, fewer greenhouse gas emissions, food constraints, green jobs. Binetti outlined the advantages of cellulosic ethanol:
Binetti said he expects a lot of interest in the fuel. Once the technology becomes available, we expect plants to be built quickly,
and BP brings the fuel blending, testing and marketing.)The advantage of butanol is that its higher energy content means more of it can replace gasoline,
Binetti said. This makes it easier for fuel producers to meet mandates, he said. Ã Â Retail gas stations can be taken into and out of butanol service without problem.
Some of the less conventional fuels used right now...take natural gas. In New york and Pennsylvania, we're sitting on one of the greatest shale gas reserves in the world.
which has helped fuel our exploding population and our overwhelming population is now causing even more problems.
These are things we should be doing right away to buy us some time to solve the harder problem of how to stop burning fossil fuels.
Eighty percent or more of our energy is still coming from fossil fuels. Eventually we need to go to zero or negative with our CO2 emissions.
there are still parts of the world where wood is the primary fuel source. We need to get started on our transition from fossil fuel burning
so that we can complete the transition in time to save human civilization. That is if we want the Anthropocene to be more than a blip in the geologic record.
even if we burn all the fossil fuels, the planet as a rock will survive and so will a lot of the life on the planet,
They are trying to get us off fossil fuels. SP: Are they as â Å out there â Â as their brother, DARPA,
so they do a better job of turning sunlight into fuels than current plants do.
by taking sunlight and somehow turning it into a fuel that you can burn. We are going to need every little bit of innovation to displace the burning of fossil fuels.
SP: What does success look like to you? DB: Success has three parts. One is a resilient and robust human civilization.
The U s. military hopes to soon use drones for cargo transportation and refueling. This is certainly a realistic hope according to Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT.
Freitas points out that the isotope gadolinium-148 could provide much of the fuel the body needs.
synthetic fuels, biofuels, electricity, hydrogen, etc. â agriculture and food production: engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation:
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