Bob Guntrip https://refractor.io/author/bob-guntrip/ Bob Guntrip en-AU Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:15:50 GMT Bacteria brews biofuel with potential to replace high-energy rocket fuel https://refractor.io/science/bacteria-brews-biofuel-with-potential-to-replace-high-energy-rocket-fuel/ Georgia Tech researchers Pamela Peralta-Yahya and Stephen Sarria examine the production of the hydrocarbon pinene in laboratory test tubes (Photo: Georgia Tech/Rob Felt)

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the US Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium that could yield a new source of high-energy hydrocarbon fuel for rocketry and other aerospace uses.

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