Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste

Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste, according to a press release from the company, reported on ICIS news and in newspapers like the Times today. I like this technology, as you'll know by now and I think that it is important that it is being widely talked about in the press in the UK. It might help move policy in a direction that I'd favour away from using food as fuel. Ineos looks to be licensing technology based around Clostridium Ljungdahlii a microbe that likes concentrations of carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and helpfully excretes ethanol. The technology was reported in Green Car Congress in 2005. It was developed by Bioengineering Resources near Fayetteville, Arkansas. There is a patent about the Biological production of ethanol from waste gases with Clostridium ljungdahlii on Patent... [read full story]