Fuel-Secreting Bacterium
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Biotech Company to Patent Fuel-Secreting Bacterium
A biotech company plans to announce Tuesday that it has won a patent on a genetically altered bacterium that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into ingredients of diesel fuel, a step that could provide a new pathway for making ethanol or a diesel replacement that skips several cumbersome and expensive steps in existing methods.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/1…
sounds like a biolab disaster to me
- PonyBoy0
^ Moist Wipes
- CALLES0
hellllo!
- jaylarson0
Perhaps it'll mutate into Godzilla?
- ukit0
- CALLES0
bump
- rson0
- georgesIII0
For years I've been reading that fuel wasn't fossil fuel after all and never was, it was just a ploy by oil company to get richer while we pay the highest price.
abiotic theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abi…- Oh come now, don't imbue conspiracy where there is none - abiotic theory precedes oil collapse worriesdetritus
- why do I always feel people attack me for the simple reason they feel entitled to, re-read what I wrote and thinkgeorgesIII
- Dodecahedron0
lets just grow hemp instead of bacteria.
- kgvs720
This should be in the first world problems thread as a solution.
- rusty_ace0
highlights:
algae that turn carbon dioxide into diesel. They are building a 5 acre test site and expect production to start 2012. produces 15,000 gallons per acre.
pretty cool
- luckyorphan0
I fail to see the down-side.