Tag Archives: Energy Density

Biofuel Alternative For High-Energy Rocket Fuel Produced From Engineered Bacteria

Image Caption: By placing colonies of E. coli engineered to produce pinene into test tubes containing glucose, researchers were able to determine which enzyme combinations produced the hydrocarbon most efficiently. Credit: Georgia Tech/Rob Felt John Toon, Georgia Institute of Technology Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced …

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Electric Cars – What Are the Disadvantages of Driving an Electric Car?

Richard G Watson asked: Range: how far can I drive and where can I recharge? This is probably the biggest current drawback of electric vehicle technology. Not only are current electric vehicles limited by range, there is minimal current recharging infrastructure in place for high speed recharging of EV’s and batteries become prohibitively expensive when trying to increase the range …

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