Biofuels in Austria: New Technology from Vienna

Austria has a strong agriucultural lobby, which promotes the use of biofuels to fight climate change. Whilst environmental activists have long recognised most of the arguments for first generation biofuels as highly dubious, second generation biofuels (those made from non-edible organic matter) are a big hope for future energy supplies. Researchers from the Technical University of Vienna have now developed a technique to transfer a funghus into an organism that reproduces sexually, which will make it a lot easier to modify it for the application in bio-chemical engineering. Read more details in English here or the original press release of the TU Vienna in German here.