{"id":15753,"date":"2012-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120330-02n"},"modified":"2012-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:00:00","slug":"fossil-free-microbe-helps-convert-solar-power-to-liquid-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/fossil-free-microbe-helps-convert-solar-power-to-liquid-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil Free: Microbe Helps Convert Solar Power to Liquid Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A new &#8220;bioreactor&#8221; could store electricity as liquid fuel with the help of a genetically engineered microbe and copious carbon dioxide. The idea\u2014dubbed &#8220;electrofuels&#8221; by a federal agency funding the research\u2014could offer electricity storage that would have the energy density of fuels such as gasoline. If it works, the hybrid bioelectric system would also offer a more efficient way of turning sunlight to fuel than growing plants and converting them into biofuel.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The method provides a way to store electrical energy in a form that can be readily used as a transportation fuel,&#8221; chemical engineer James Liao of the University of California, Los Angeles, explains. Liao and his colleagues report on their &#8220;integrated electro-microbial bioreactor&#8221; in Science on March 30.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=microbe-uses-solar-electricity-to-build-liquid-fuel\" >http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=microbe-uses-solar-electricity-to-build-liquid-fuel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: &#8220;Electrofuels&#8221;, integrated electro-microbial bioreactor,  Ralstonia eutropha<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A new &#8220;bioreactor&#8221; could store electricity as liquid fuel with the help of a genetically engineered microbe and copious carbon dioxide. The idea&mdash;dubbed &#8220;electrofuels&#8221; by<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[3322,2436],"class_list":["post-15753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-princeton-university","supplier-university-of-california-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}