By Kevin Bullis

How Coskata Makes Biofuels

A versatile new process for making biofuels could slash their cost.

Getting the most from the bacteria means optimizing the nutrition they receive. So the researchers grow the bacteria in a suspended culture (large flasks) and feed them different mixes of nutrients (small bottles with red caps) to determine which combinations result in the highest levels of ethanol production.

Credit: Thomas Chadwick

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