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Fungi From Guts Of Herbivores Could Help Us Make Biofuel (dispatchtribunal.com)
hypnosec writes: Researchers have revealed through a new study that fungi from the gut of herbivores like goats, horses and sheep could be used to make biofuel. According to researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, the fungi retrieved from these animals are capable of converting plant material into sugars that can be easily used to make biofuel and other products at the same efficiency as the best fungi engineering in the industry. Michelle O'Malley, lead author of the paper and professor of chemical engineering at the University, explains that these fungi naturally have the best possible set of enzymes for the job of breaking down biomass and as per their findings, these enzymes work together to break down stubborn plant material.
Given how they collected the fungi in the first place, you seem to be asking someone to PM your for a BM
Why do many environmentalist hate oil and diesel that occurred naturally on our planet, but get so excited about bio-diesel that takes up land and energy to produce that could be used for feeding people or other positive purposes?
Even the name bio-diesel is sideways and laughable.
You mean why do environmentalists like bio-diesel? They don't. But smart people realize that the industrial processes involved in petroleum extraction are a bit injurious to the environment, and the political complications are even worse. Wouldn't you rather be able to make all the petroleum products we need rather than pay money to the various Oil Barons across the world? Yes, farming and agriculture have their perils, but those can be mitigated, and it would be useful to keep some hydrocarbons in usage as we transition other options, like most internal combustion engines, to other mechanisms that are less burdensome.
But really, you won't find a lot of environmentalists cheering on bio-diesel. This is for the industrialists who hate being beholden to foreign powers.
I'm going to start selling organic-oil, it's exactly like regular oil, only it makes leftist feel better when consuming it.
That's ok, I'll sell you Orphan Oil, it's made by bio-engineering orphans, and will satisfy your desire to be smug.