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==Our Vision==
==Our Vision==
The world today is heading towards an energy crisis. This makes the need for novel ways to produce fuels in high yields a necessity. The main renewable source of energy we know of is the sun, and because of this our team choose to try to harvest this energy through the photosynthetic capability of cyano bacteria. Ethanol has been used as an energy source for decades and the means of using it are highly developed. The same is true for Butanol. If we could store the suns energy as alcohols, we could then use them in many different processes from powering your car or in case we solve all the worlds problems, to booze (only recommended with ethanol).
The world today is heading towards an energy crisis. This makes the need for novel ways to produce fuels in high yields a necessity. The main renewable source of energy we know of is the sun, and because of this our team choose to try to harvest this energy through the photosynthetic capability of cyano bacteria. Ethanol has been used as an energy source for decades and the means of using it are highly developed. The same is true for Butanol. If we could store the suns energy as alcohols, we could then use them in many different processes from powering your car or in case we solve all the worlds problems, to booze (only recommended with ethanol).
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Our Vision

The world today is heading towards an energy crisis. This makes the need for novel ways to produce fuels in high yields a necessity. The main renewable source of energy we know of is the sun, and because of this our team choose to try to harvest this energy through the photosynthetic capability of cyano bacteria. Ethanol has been used as an energy source for decades and the means of using it are highly developed. The same is true for Butanol. If we could store the suns energy as alcohols, we could then use them in many different processes from powering your car or in case we solve all the worlds problems, to booze (only recommended with ethanol).






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