Scientists at the U.K.’s Imperial College London just made a major breakthrough in the renewable production of the fuel propane. In a study released this week in the journal Nature Communications, they demonstrate a way to produce propane from glucose by using genetically engineered Escherichia coli bacteria. Yes, the same E. coli that naturally occurs in your gut (and which can make you spectacularly unwell should you have the misfortune to ingest certain nasty strains of it). Previous studies have successfully produced diesel-like and gasoline-like fuels from E. coli, but propane is a lower emission fuel so it makes an attractive alternative.
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