[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds wonderful.

Which means this is the last we'll ever hear of it.

[mylife]

Que The Twighlighty Zone Music.

[bunkerhill7]

Do not attempt to siphon E. coli gas using your mouth.

[SeeSharp]

Well if the little bugs eat up all the CO2 won’t that cause an ice age? Better call Al Gore.

[MarineBrat]

Believe it when I see it. If it worked they’d be busy counting money instead of putting out news reports.

[mylife]

A deadly mutant bacteria, excreting a product that could change the world...

Welcome to...The twilight zone.

[toast]

So if it gets out of the production plant and gets into the swamp behind my house? Do I get a nice little oil slick that never seems to go away? And lots of dead frogs?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I can se it now - redneck E. Coli

“Hey Bubba, watch me light this!”

[Panzerlied]

Riiiight!

[Red Badger]

Litteral drop in the ocean......

[NoLibZone]

BS

100% BS

[SpaceBar]

I smell an IPO announcement shortly to raise capital to “perfect” the process.

[DaxtonBrown]

This makes nooo sense. Where does the E.coli get the energy to bump CO2 up to a hydrocarbon? E.Coli lives on crap, it isn’t a photosynthesizer. I guess the energy just poops itself into existence.

[GOPJ]

Is this the same company that came up with a cold fusion sustained reaction?

[Cicero]

Highly secretive?

http://www.jouleunlimited.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_Unlimited

[Sherman Logan]

It anticipates that this yield could hit 25,000 gallons an acre a year when scaled for commercial production, equivalent to roughly 800 barrels of crude an acre a year.

By my (quite possibly messed up) calculations, this means we could replace our present consumption of oil (roughly 7B barrels) by converting about 13000 square miles to production with this process, or about 20% more area than the state of Maryland.

That's quite a significant footprint. Since I assume this requires tanks, that's also quite a lot of infrastructure investment.

[eclecticEel]

If true, it’s the worst thing that could ever happen to the warmist crowd. Although I’ll only believe it when I see it.

[r9etb]

a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons

One is forced to ask... where does the hydrogen part of "hydrocarbons" come from?

[isthisnickcool]

We have what? Enough oil in the US to last about 1,000 years?

If they opened up exploration tomorrow the economy would be fixed pretty quickly. Just opening up access to shale oil would do that. But we won't. Why not? Because we have morons in Washington and Obama is working hard to destroy America.

[stormer]

You can do it yourself...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,794,969.PN.&OS=PN/7,794,969&RS=PN/7,794,969