The discovery of fast-growth cyanobacteria brings much joy and hope into the world of renewable energy as scientists discover a way to use this to harvest biofuel at a rate much faster than ever before. Acting in the opposite way to most other cyanobacteria, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 thrives on bright light and scientists have used this to develop very efficient techniques for producing fuel.
Following on from recent research carried out by scientists at the U.S. Department if Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in collaboration with a number of other scientists they now know that the reason why Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 is so robust is because it triples in size in order to accommodate the rapid expansion of the cellular machinery that is used to build proteins within the cells. Under bright light, the organism was able to build molecular machinery very quickly to convert the light energy and carbon dioxide into new growth.
By using this type of cyanobacteria to capture the sun’s energy, scientists are hoping to use this technique to create new forms of renewable energy and sustainable bioproducts. Where other typical organisms take around 7 to 12 hours to double in size, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 takes around 2 hours. This incredible capability could transform the world of biofuels as we know it and make them both cheaper and essentially more attractive to the average consumer and could maybe bring with it the increase of more bio-fuelled run vehicles.
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