Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Supercomputer Uncovers Possible Secret to Cost-Effective Alternative Fuel

Powerful supercomputers often make radical discoveries not even scientists running the data could anticipate – which recently happened at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Researchers running a simulation of an enzyme from the fungus Trichoderma reesei (Cel7A) discovered that a part of the enzyme – the linker – can have a quite unexpected benefit, in breaking down biomass into the sugars used to make alternative transportation fuels.

(Read my complete article at Go Parallel)

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