Bioconversion of solar energy for the sustainable enhancement of universal villages

Abstract

With the aid of systems biology and synthetic biology, we will provide an integrated, direct and green bioprocess to address the overall challenge for universal village in production of biofuels using solar energy and captured atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). This will in practice be done using cyanobacteria and exemplified with the chemical/fuel ethanol as a model system. This, in addition, makes it possible to introduce waste water as a source of nutrients for the genetically engineered cyanobacteria and thereby use the developed system as a model to purify contaminated water bodies.