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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."
There was an episode of the Three Stooges that did this very thing. I suspect this is just as legitimate too!
Mo, Larry, the cheese!
No it isn't. Especially not if they get spread over a large area.
GM crops were evil in greenhouses, I seem to remember. Which are, obviously, also "sealed vats".
Nuclear waste is a myth spread by a cold-war government wanting to limit access to radioactive materials. Nuclear by-products are only dangerous because they are emitting radiation - energy - which by definition means that they are not waste, since waste is material which is not useful. They can be used in any number of long-life, low-drain applications, powering betavoltaic or radiothermal generators, not to mention their uses in medicine and other disciplines. Or they can be used in breeder reactors as fission fuel.
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