[Newsbot]

Title: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-06-14 15:58:03

[Bacardi4206]

Amazing

[commanderkai]

...This isn't a joke right? I mean, holy shit this is amazing.

[ridenrain]

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Because crude oil (which can be refined into other products, such as petroleum or jet fuel) is only a few molecular stages removed from the fatty acids normally excreted by yeast or E. coli during fermentation, it does not take much fiddling to get the desired result.

Didn't you guys read this part?

[romanP]

Shouldn't we be finding ways to stop burning stuff to make energy, instead of finding more ways to keep burning stuff to make energy?

[RUEZ]

romanP romanP:

Shouldn't we be finding ways to stop burning stuff to make energy, instead of finding more ways to keep burning stuff to make energy?

We still need to find cleaner means of propulsion but things like this can't be ignored.

[C.M. Burns]

romanP said it first but allow me to paraphrase:

wrong wrong wrong!

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However, to substitute America’s weekly oil consumption of 143 million barrels, you would need a facility that covered about 205 square miles, an area roughly the size of Chicago.

And will cost how many hundreds of billions?

$1:

... different types of agricultural waste will be used according to whatever makes sense for the local climate and economy: wheat straw in California, for example, or woodchips in the South.

Except that so-called waste is really locked up carbon that, when put back into the earth allows us to grow more useful things like food.

Like the clever money-making monkeys that they are, they think it's better to take carbon out of the soil, burn it and then put the carbon into the air where it does nobody any good.

[N_Fiddledog]

Not really on topic, but kinda. The decade after 2010 is going to be a fascinating time.

So many times I'm reading about these miraculous discoveries, and I see see a phrase, something like "not ready until after 2010", or "expect it around 2010".

I can hardly wait till 2010 to see what happens.

[C.M. Burns]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Not really on topic, but kinda. The decade after 2010 is going to be a fascinating time.

So many times I'm reading about these miraculous discoveries, and I see see a phrase, something like "not ready until after 2010", or "expect it around 2010".

I can hardly wait till 2010 to see what happens.

Wikipedia says:
The technological singularity is a hypothesised point in the future variously characterized by the technological creation of self-improving intelligence, unprecedentedly rapid technological progress, or some combination of the two.

I hope 2009 isn't too long.

[naelch]

Amazing They just need to improve the efficiency and voila, the World will be free!

[Hyack]

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Wikipedia says:

Not Wikipedia!!!!