Amyris, Inc, 5885 Hollis Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, United States.
Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2011 Jun;22(3):344-50. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.04.023. Epub 2011 May 24.
In commodity chemicals, cost drives everything. A working class family of four drives up to the gas pumps and faces a choice of a renewable diesel or petroleum diesel. Renewable diesel costs $0.50 more per gallon. Which fuel do they pick? Petroleum diesel will be the winner every time, unless the renewable fuel can achieve cost and performance parity with petrol. Nascent producers of advanced biofuels, including Amyris, LS9, Neste and Solazyme, aim to deliver renewable diesel fuels that not only meet the cost challenge, but also exceed the storage, transport, engine performance and emissions properties of petroleum diesel.
在商品化学品中，成本决定一切。一个有四个工人阶级家庭的四口之家开车到加油站，面临着选择可再生柴油还是石油柴油的问题。可再生柴油每加仑贵 0.50 美元。他们会选择哪种燃料？除非可再生燃料在成本和性能上能与汽油相媲美，否则石油柴油每次都会胜出。Amyris、LS9、Neste 和 Solazyme 等先进生物燃料的新兴生产商，旨在提供可再生柴油燃料，不仅要满足成本挑战，还要超越石油柴油的储存、运输、发动机性能和排放性能。
