http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2009/06/16/what-the-us-automotive-industry-can-look-like-in-2015-and-2020-part-one/ A Future Look at Today Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2009/06/16/what-the-us-automotive-industry-can-look-like-in-2015-and-2020-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-65736 Max Kaehn Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:01:00 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/?p=376#comment-65736 We might have largely weaned new car production off the classic internal combustion engine, but there’s a huge installed base. I think we’re going to see some interesting results from synthetic biology: big farms of engineered algae or bacteria spreading across the American Southwest, using photosynthesis to crank out octane to run all those legacy automobiles. (Alternatively, digesting waste cellulose as a feedstock.) We might have largely weaned new car production off the classic internal combustion engine, but there’s a huge installed base. I think we’re going to see some interesting results from synthetic biology: big farms of engineered algae or bacteria spreading across the American Southwest, using photosynthesis to crank out octane to run all those legacy automobiles. (Alternatively, digesting waste cellulose as a feedstock.)

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