[ExI] Liquid fuel

[hkhenson]

Given the drift of recent threads here, something as mundane as 
transportation fuels would be a change of pace.

These guys:

http://www.coskataenergy.com

have come up with an interesting twist.  They make synth gas (a mix 
of H2 and CO) out of anything organic.

Then they feed the gas to microbes in a bioreactor.  The bugs turn 
the synth gas into ethanol.  There are other ways to turn synth gas 
into liquid fuels, but this method seems to be a significant improvement.

An interesting aspect is that this method might lend itself to rather 
small plants, down perhaps to the neighborhood scale or even a farm 
family using crop waste.

Keith