NASA aims for biofuels made from astronaut CO2

July 27, 2011 |

In Washington, NASA awarded the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology a $750,000 grant develop cyanobacteria to produce energy dense fuels, high value chemicals, O2, and cleansed water directly from CO2, sunlight, and wastewater.  Most of the research will be done at So. Dakota State Unversity.  Associate Professor

Ruanbao Zhou stated “This project will help NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate address the goal of providing renewable, energy-dense biofuels in a sustainable manner, while supplying technology to sequester carbon dioxide released by an astronautics crew…”

Category: Fuels

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