Fueling Sustainability: Engineering Microbial Systems for Biofuel Production, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307,

Course Description,
The need to identify sustainable forms of energy as an alternative to our dependence on depleting worldwide oil reserves is one of the grand challenges of our time. The energy from the sun converted into plant biomass is the most promising renewable resource available to humanity. This seminar will examine each of the critical steps along the pathway towards the conversion of plant biomass into ethanol.