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LS9 reports one-step sugar-to-diesel conversion
Drop-in fuels one step closer to parity with fossil fuels
In California, LS9 announced a major scientific breakthrough that will significantly lower the cost of producing “drop-in” hydrocarbon fuels. This breakthrough has allowed LS9 to accelerate its technology and demonstrate alkane production at pilot scale.
The discovery
In the article “Microbial Biosynthesis of [...]

Technology: Joule’s Helioculture process mixes sunlight and CO2 with highly engineered photo synthetic organisms, which are designed to secrete ethanol, diesel or other products.
However, unlike algae and other current biomass-derived fuels, the Helioculture process does not produce biomass, requires no agricultural feedstock and minimizes land and water use. It is also direct-to-product, so there is [...]