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With the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere ( MAHB) for Stanford University claiming that oil reserves will be emptied by 2054, there seems to be a frenzy imagining a world where there will be no cars, no planes flying, no jets taking care of the national boundaries, no rockets leaving the world for new developers and innovations, etc. However, even though researchers are working hard and dedicatedly to find alternatives for fuel, be it in CNG or electrically operated vehicles, a giant ray of hope has come in soil bacteria. Researchers claim that this soil bacteria from the genus Streptomyces can be used as alternative jet fuel.
The aviation industry uses fossil fuels like kerosene, petrol, diesel, etc., which take millions of years to form beneath the earth’s surface. The research team at Berkley was looking for alternative fuel options that did not take that many years to form. Jay Keasling, professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, in collaboration with researcher Pablo Cruz Morales and his team, worked on a molecule named Jawsamycin. This molecule’s potential to produce tremendous amounts of energy collectively created a new kind of biofuel.
The most significant advantage of using soil bacteria as a replacement for aviation fuel is that it is not just environmentally friendly but can be made readily available by the end of time. However, among the disadvantages, its large-scale production seems to be challenging with its economic viability. With the global economy subsidized around fossil fuels, the much-needed investments in soil bacteria are one of the biggest challenges faced by the production teams.
However, with its many advantages, such as maintaining the climate of the planets, cutting down on pollution, and generating a permanent source of energy supply, its time that the government and other corporate giants step ahead and take an active financial step toward the development of social bacteria, a miracle in the aviation fuel industry
