Famed geneticist creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel

Yahoo! News ^ | February 28, 2008

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[wastedyears]

There’s a couple Liberals that could be test subjects...

[SampleMan]

Don’t plants turn CO2 into fuel?

[highlander_UW]

It’d be hilarious to see the liberals have to call for INCREASED Co2 production for fuel purposes. Maybe we can hook a pipe up to Gore’s house...that things’s a beast.

[kc8ukw]

So perhaps he’s breeding a new variety of petunia?

[G8 Diplomat]

They turn CO2 into oxygen and sugars....

[willgolfforfood]

LOL! Since the first oil panics of the early 1970's, I've heard that big, evil, greedy oil companies take turns buying up engines that get 100 MPG's.

I'm sure we'll soon see an article about a big, evil, greedy oil company that bought up this startup company, as a way to "diversify" their capabilities to provide energy solutions to a grateful planet.

[NonValueAdded]

Master-Blaster had the methane thing down pretty well

[dead]

Scientists put "suicide genes" into their living creations so that if they escape the lab, they can be triggered to kill themselves.

If the trigger fails, I, for one, welcome our new biofuel-generating microscopic overlords.

[DuncanWaring]

...a life form that feeds on climate-ruining carbon dioxide to produce fuel.

Historically known as "trees", which yield "firewood".

[kinoxi]

Interesting. I’m a bit hesitant about making artificial lifeforms with voracious appetites just yet though. I think they know less that they think do concerning genetic information.

[geopyg]

Newsflash - March 1, 2018

Mutant Fuel Breeders Release

Following the accidental release of Fuel Breeders last year, the Earth’s level of CO2 has decreased. Scientists believe the rate is logarithmic, and CO2 levels will reach a critical stage by 2020, with only the hardiest of creatures surviving.

[BGHater]

'carbon dioxide to produce fuel.' Dunno about the specifics of the life form, I would hope it wouldn't get out or is safe outside in our environment. I hope they know what they are doing.

[Hacklehead]

“Famed geneticist creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel”

They are called trees.

[sauropod]

If the trigger fails, I, for one, welcome our new biofuel-generating microscopic overlords.

What kind of tribute do you think they might want? Complex carbs?

[Boundless]

This scientist has failed to recognize that liberals
only want symbolic solutions to metaphorical problems,
not real solutions to real problems.

The liberals appreciate the advance notice, however,
so that they can outlaw his technology.

Now, if his tech had exacerbated real problems,
while failing to be a symbolic solution to
metaphorical problems, that would be OK, as
long as there were non-liberal scapegoats to blame.
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And that’s the way it is.

[Matchett-PI]

"Master-Blaster had the methane thing down pretty well"

Yep

[2ndDivisionVet]

Global Warming/Science Ping!

[Regulator]

Venter hasn't made anything worth keeping in his entire career. He's mostly a blow-hard who makes overblown claims and then ends up dissembling in an attempt to explain away his failure.

And that's all this is.

Not that it might be a good idea. It's just that he's not up to the task.

[Bender2]

Re: The next step is life forms that feed on CO2 and give off fuel such as methane gas as waste, according to Venter.

And when these life forms have eaten up all the CO2... How will Algore breath those billions and billions of cubic miles of methane gas?