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E. coli turns seaweed into ethanol

Why not bio-produced Gasoline?

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L-Phenylalanine is also synthetically produced using e.coli.

"L-Phenylalanine is produced for medical, feed, and nutritional applications, such as Aspartame, in large quantities by utilizing the bacterium Escherichia coli, which naturally produces aromatic amino acids like phenylalanine."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylalanine#Commercial_synthesis

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L-Phenylalanine is used to produce Salicylic acid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylic_acid#Production

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Salicylic acid is used to produce Pimelic acid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimelic_acid

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Pimelic acid is used to produce Cyclohexane

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclohexane#History

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Cyclohexane is a key ingredient of the mixture that is Gasoline.

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So, indirectly, E.Coli can be used to synthesize Cyclohexane in large quantities.

So, if you look at the Gasoline FAQ here:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/autos/gasoline-faq/part1/

and look for:

"What are the hydrocarbons in Gasoline?"

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Cyclohexane is a key ingredient, and especially in the higher priced gasolines.

now, if you go down that list, there might be a way to bio-synthesize almost all of the ingredients in the mixture. Therefore, there is a probably a way to bio-synthesize each component and then mix them together after they have all been synthesized. Ethanol makes alot of sense to people because it _is_ so simple, but if someone could do what I am describing here and put a reasonable price tag on it, then maybe we could drive down the price of gasoline significantly and put lots of oil drillers into a different career.

..Not that I hate oil drillers, but potential job losses may provide economic or popular resistance to the idea of bio-synthesized unleaded Gasoline. However, I do hate high gas prices; and at this point, am wondering if we are being purposely ripped-off in the matter, by people who could make bio-gasoline a reality, if only they would keep making the money that they currently make. But it's also possible that the "ripped-off" part is actually not the case.

Doesn't it seem like we're always working on a new way to make ethanol, or use alternative fuels, but no-one is ever working on getting rid of a need for gasoline that comes from crude oil? Why is that? Did the oil companies introduce Ethanol as a red-herring? You can work ALL DAY LONG on the ethanol problem and NEVER develop a solution the ACTUAL problem which is that we don't want the crude-oil-based GASOLINE at all, we want a bio-produced Gasoline.

We want an entirely bio-produced Gasoline and we want it for a fraction of the price of Gasoline that has been refined from crude oil.

Laser used to cool semiconductor

Lasers and Frequencies

Now, we just need to use lasers to affect the earth's magnetic field. Perhaps in time, we can control the weather, through a network of laser carrying satellites.