Biofuels – Lanzatech

The New Zealand-based company LanzaTech has recently patented a method of obtaining biofuels from industrial waste gases that contain carbon monoxide.  Its method reduces carbon emissions and, unlike other biofuel production methods, is not reliant on crops grown on farmland so even its widespread implementation would not be detrimental to global food supplies.

How :  The microbe acts a biocatalyst which allows production of both fuels and chemicals from industrial gas resources

 

Recently Richard Branson was in New Zealand as Virgin Atlantic announced that it would be using jet biofuel produced using Lanzatech’s technology by 2013.