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11-01-09, 11:31 AM
interesting, do a search if you want to know more
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/18/s...k-produce-oil/ (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/18/scientists-create-bacteria-that-eat-junk-produce-oil/)
Scientists create bacteria that eat junk, produce oil (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/18/scientists-create-bacteria-that-eat-junk-produce-oil/)
by Jonathon Ramsey (http://www.autoblog.com/bloggers/jonathon-ramsey/) on Jun 18th 2008 at 9:31AM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/06/ls9_oil.jpg (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece)A company called LS9 is creating nearly pump-ready oil using single-celled bacteria. They start with industrial yeast organisms or "non-pathogenic strains of E. coli," and redesign their DNA so that they produce a different kind of waste. Crude oil is not far removed, molecularly, from the fatty acids expelled by yeast or E. coli during fermentation, so a little bit of DNA alteration bypasses the fatty acids and produces "Oil 2.0."
The "bugs" can be fed a variety of feedstock, from politically sensitive corn to Brazilian sugar cane to California wheat straw to Southern wood chips. The result is the same: crude oil that is almost ready to pour into your car. What's more: the enterprise is carbon negative, putting out less CO2 than the operation requires. At the moment it takes a 1,000-liter fermentation machine one week to make a 40-gallon drum of crude.
It will be a moment before they have a seamless industrial-sized operation. And there is that little concern of hundreds of billions of genetically-altered critters getting free and wreaking havoc on kids and puppies. But the promise of a steady supply of safely created $40 oil -- because even the Volt will need oil -- is not a bad thing to consider.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/18/s...k-produce-oil/ (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/18/scientists-create-bacteria-that-eat-junk-produce-oil/)
Scientists create bacteria that eat junk, produce oil (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/18/scientists-create-bacteria-that-eat-junk-produce-oil/)
by Jonathon Ramsey (http://www.autoblog.com/bloggers/jonathon-ramsey/) on Jun 18th 2008 at 9:31AM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/06/ls9_oil.jpg (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece)A company called LS9 is creating nearly pump-ready oil using single-celled bacteria. They start with industrial yeast organisms or "non-pathogenic strains of E. coli," and redesign their DNA so that they produce a different kind of waste. Crude oil is not far removed, molecularly, from the fatty acids expelled by yeast or E. coli during fermentation, so a little bit of DNA alteration bypasses the fatty acids and produces "Oil 2.0."
The "bugs" can be fed a variety of feedstock, from politically sensitive corn to Brazilian sugar cane to California wheat straw to Southern wood chips. The result is the same: crude oil that is almost ready to pour into your car. What's more: the enterprise is carbon negative, putting out less CO2 than the operation requires. At the moment it takes a 1,000-liter fermentation machine one week to make a 40-gallon drum of crude.
It will be a moment before they have a seamless industrial-sized operation. And there is that little concern of hundreds of billions of genetically-altered critters getting free and wreaking havoc on kids and puppies. But the promise of a steady supply of safely created $40 oil -- because even the Volt will need oil -- is not a bad thing to consider.