[Wonder Warthog]

"Since we know about the law of unintended consequences, I wonder about the types of by products these bacteria produce? I also wonder what happens when you spray them on blacktop."

My wife used to do research in soil contaminant removal, and in one case of "bioremediation", they were trying "bugs" that would eat chlorinated hydrocarbons. And the bugs were indeed eating the chlorinated hydrocarbons. The only problem is that they were also converting fully saturated chlorocarbons (like perchloroethane) into vinyl chloride---which is far MORE toxic than the original material.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

No Wonder!

It sounds like we are looking for the biological equivalent of the philosopher's stone, except that we want CO2 and, of course, the ever dangerous di-hydrogen oxide.

(And the blacktop, is it at risk, and is it time to invest heavily in concrete manufacturers?) <;)