通过改变某些生物处理糖的方式,加州大学洛杉矶分校的研究人员演示了如何制造出更多燃料。加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的研究人员用基因工程改变了某些生物处理糖的方式,从而开辟出一条生产更廉价、清洁的生物燃料的路径。传统生物燃料要么过于昂贵而无法和化石燃料竞争,要么排放的二氧化碳太多而不值得生产,或者两者兼而有之。UCLA的这项进展使得从糖中产生的生物燃料增加了50%,它让我们可以从各种原料尤其是木屑和草这样的生物质中更廉价地生产出生物燃料。美国的生物燃料产业亟需这类进展。即使国会规定从生物质中获得 By changing the way some organisms process sugars, UCLA researchers demonstrate how to make more fuel. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have genetically engineered the way some organisms process sugars, opening up a path to cheaper, cleaner biofuels. Traditional biofuels are either too expensive to compete with fossil fuels or emit too much carbon dioxide that is not worth producing, or both. This progress at UCLA has resulted in a 50% increase in biofuel production from sugar, which allows us to produce biofuels cheaper from biomass, especially from sawdust and grasses. The U.S. biofuel industry urgently needs such progress. Even parliament rules get from biomass