Monthly Archives: December 2008

Waste Coffee Grounds as Biodiesel Feedstock

Posted on December 11, 2008 by admin

Waste coffee grounds can provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel, according to a study by researchers at the University of Nevada-Reno. According to the USDA, world coffee production is 16.34 billion pounds per year; the … Continue reading →

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JBEI Researchers Engineer Yeast to Produce n-Butanol

Posted on December 7, 2008 by admin

Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Dr. Jay Keasling at UC Berkeley, have engineered the common industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with an n-butanol biosynthetic pathway, resulting in a ten-fold improvement in n-butanol production from one of the … Continue reading →

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