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Aircraft are indispensable in the modern age for transporting people, delivering goods, and performing military operations, but the petroleum-based fuels that power them are in short supply. Scientists have now discovered a way to generate an alternative jet fuel by harvesting an unusual carbon molecule produced by the metabolic process of bacteria that are commonly found in soil. The research, by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, was published recently in the journal Joule.
[...] Keasling wanted to recreate a molecule called Jawsamycin, which is named after the movie “Jaws” because of its bite-like indentations. It is generated by the common bacteria streptomyces, an organism that Cruz-Morales had worked with in the past.
“The recipe already exists in nature,” says Cruz-Morales. The jagged molecule is produced by native metabolism of the bacteria as they munch away on glucose. “As they eat sugar or amino acids, they break them down and convert them into building blocks for carbon-to-carbon bonds,” he says. “You make fat in your body in the same way, with the same chemistry, but this bacterial process has some very interesting twists.”
[...] Cruz-Morales explains that the fuel produced by the bacteria would work a lot like biodiesel. It would need to be treated so that it could ignite at a lower temperature than the temperature needed to burn a fatty acid. However, when ignited, it would be powerful enough to send a rocket into space. “If we can make this fuel with biology there’s no excuses to make it with oil,” says Cruz-Morales. “It opens the possibility of making it sustainable.”
In the future, Cruz-Morales hopes that he and the team of Department of Energy researchers who worked on the project will be able to scale up this process so that their alternative fuel could actually be used in aircraft. “The problem right now is that fossil fuels are subsidized,” says Cruz-Morales. “This is something that is not only related to the technology, but the geopolitical and socio-political constitution of the planet right now. You can see this as a preparation for the moment because we are going to run out of fossil fuels, and there’s going to be a point, not far from now, when we will need alternative solutions.”
Journal Reference:
Pablo Cruz-Morales, Kevin Yin, Alexander Landera, et al., Biosynthesis of polycyclopropanated high energy biofuels [open], Joule, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2022.05.011
(Score: 5, Funny) by Kell on Thursday July 28 2022, @07:55AM (5 children)
You won't believe this one weird trick for making click bait titles the government doesn't want you to know about and that doctors hate!
But seriously, can we please get some non-shit title generation that doesn't feel like a crass attempt to drive clicks? I thought SN was better than that.
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by oliyanabeth on Thursday July 28 2022, @09:51AM
I think getting fatty or looking fatty is a problematic thing for your looks as well as your health. Because it disturbs your health and fitness level of the body. There are so many healthy tips available in it. You can find your problem-related content in it.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday July 28 2022, @10:49AM
If you dare to follow the first link of TFS(ummary) - oh, gosh, I know, that as close as RTFA one can get w/o actually RTFAing, sorry for that - you will discover that the best you can do is to accuse the editors of not taking their time to replace the original title.
As such, I invite you to think what reasons can they have (different of "shit title generation") to do this way. Give it a try, maybe your imagination may stumble upon "Overworked and doing it voluntarily w/o pay" and maybe then your good soul will drive you towards thanking instead of berating them. I mean, it's possible for these to happen, isn't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hubie on Thursday July 28 2022, @11:26AM
FYI, there is no enforced editorial policy for this, but by and large the original title of the submission is used. Instances where I personally have made changes to the title are when the original title is too long or wordy for the title field (often dropping things like ", researchers say"), or when multiple submissions get merged into a single story. In the case of the latter, the editor needs to supply a headline. If the headlines of the merged stories are essentially the same, I just choose one or the other, but if they are rather different, then I'll try to supply a short one that captures both submission topics.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday July 28 2022, @05:12PM
Generally when I submit a story. I just use the same title as the story we are linking to. What you are complaining about is journalism and media in general.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2022, @07:31PM
Well, I think it's a great weight loss gimmick. Plug into the armrest, the airplane does liposuction, and you lose 20 pounds on the way to L.A.
Fly and grow slim!
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Thursday July 28 2022, @03:55PM
From the flying-jaws dept.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.