Electrofuel

Majumdar then held up another vial of electrofuel, this one brewed by a team at MIT. Toone says he's been astonished by the success of the electrofuel projects, and OPX has raised $36 million in follow-up financing.

The cheap natural gas freed from shale by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) has helped kill off bleeding-edge programs like Electrofuels, a bid to use microbes to turn cheap electricity into liquid fuels, […]