MIT researchers turn waste gas into liquid fuel

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Turning the emissions of power stations, steel mills and garbage dumps into liquid fuels has been demonstrated by MIT researchers using engineered microbes.

The process has been successfully trialled at a pilot plant in China and a much bigger facility is now planned.

Energy-dense liquids are vital to transport but are currently derived from oil, a fossil fuel, and transport produces about a quarter of the global carbon emissions driving climate change. Biofuels have been seen as possible replacement, but current biofuels compete with food production and have been blamed for driving up food prices.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/07/mit-researchers-turn-waste-gas-into-liquid-fuel

[GliderGuider]

1. While drivers turn liquid fuel into waste gas.

Why not stop the driving? All this does is prolong the agony.

[Relentless Liberal]

3. Good Idea

But it's not gonna happen. Most people I know would give up their KIDS before their cars.

[Massacure]

2. It's interesting how they were able to do this with bacteria and yeast

I wonder if it will be be more economically viable at some point than Fischer Tropsch?