But this looks very promising. It honestly looks too good to be true. Cellulosic ethanol looked for a while like it would be the holy grail of biofuels, but if this article is correct then this is so much better that it’s almost unthinkable.
What’s so unthinkable? The big problem with ethanol is the amount of energy that can be stored with it. It just isn’t as good at storing energy as straight up petroleum. This LS9 technology promises a product that is essentially crude oil, which should give a similar amount of energy by volume to traditional gasoline.
I will admit that part of me is still skeptical. Frankly this seems like too-easy a solution. LS9 claims to be able to use things that everyone agrees are waste materiel’s to create a carbon-negative solution to something that contributes a great deal to the energy crisis. Even if it does work, there is also the issue of making the process safe and studying the impact of these bacteria getting out of the system into the wild.
Still, even with these caveats (and of course assuming that the technology is legitimate) I think this takes us a significant step that much closer to a reasonable solution to the energy problems. I just won’t bank on it being a sole solution.
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