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GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources
polymath69 writes "According to The Times Online, genetically modified microbes have been developed capable of turning surplus material such as wood chips, sugarcane, or others, not into ethanol, but into a substance which could substitute directly for crude oil. They claim it could be sold for about $50/bbl, and the production process would be carbon negative."
Oh yeah, time for Stephen King to right a new book.
He's wronged so many of his last books that it would be a good idea regardless.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
obviously, solar energy is the ultimate renewable energy source
Actually, there's already a way to turn solar energy into crude oil : grow plants, bury dead plants deep underground, wait several millions years, extract oil.
You do realize oil *is* solar energy right?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Yeah, but they both "bring good things to life".
Nah, this story needs some rampant sexual innuendo, pedophilia, and themes that would give serial rapists nightmares. Let's see... Is Piers Anthony in the middle of anything at the moment?
What will be interesting is how the oil giants respond to this competition.
DMCA takedown notices?Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the temperature. Water isn't really very wet at, say, 0 degrees Kelvin.
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