Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

The Times of London ^ | Monday, June 16, 2008 | The Times of London

[aclusux.com]

Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide 'renewable petroleum'. “Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.........”

[TexanToTheCore]

It always looks like this when you get a number of extremely bright people working on a big critical project. The jumps in oil technology that are going to take place over the next en yeras will be phenomenal. Most of the techniques will fail to work on a large, useful scale, but one or two will work better than anyone had hoped.

Saudi Arabia will run out of market before they run out of oil.

[Uncledave]

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[deadmenvote]

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great pic, so is your home page.

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[brytlea]

Thanks. I’m a flickr addict! ;)

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