As part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiative in South Carolina, Clemson University researchers are looking into how living microbes that, when stimulated with electricity, will turn carbon dioxide (CO2) into an alcohol-based fuel. "This research will be focused mostly on the bench scale, and will provide insight into how to do it at the commercial production level,"Stephen Creager, chairman of Clemson University's chemistry department, said in the announcement. "As with other biofuels, a scalable, reliable process, along with production costs and volumes will be the issues.?
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