LS9 may have just solved biofuels’ scaling problem

The biofuel market is turning into a diverse romp of venture-backed companies auditioning different microbes, catalysts and feedstocks, all with the same goal: to quickly, efficiently and cheaply transform renewable, non-food products (ranging from sugar cane to switch grass to carbon dioxide) into viable forms of fuel that can work in today’s gas tanks. The problem is, almost all of these players hit the same ceiling: they can’t figure out a way to inexpensively scale with the technology they have. But biofuel startup LS9 may have just changed that. The company’s scientists have published a paper , academically titled “Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes,” claiming that they can now implant genes into E

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LS9 may have just solved biofuels’ scaling problem