Posted on 06/16/2008 3:48:27 PM PDT by Born In America
“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.”
He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
That’s nothing.... I have a friend that drinks beer and in no time can produce enough methane to cause a room to clear.
Don’t give them any ideas!
Sounds like a joke...
Exactly what I was thinking. Sit back and watch the RATS do everything and anything they can to stifle this since their goal - which they no longer even really bother to hide - is to destroy America.
(Too bad they can't modify congress critters this way...)
Thanks for posting. Interesting.
Still produces carbon based fuels so subject to McCain’s Cap and Trade.
I wonder what would happen if you unleashed this bugs on a landfill...
Is that disaster really McCain? I did not know that - though it surprises me none.
Hey - I know someone that eats and excretes natural gas!
Cap and Trade is the McCain-Lieberman Act!!!!
Good grief.
Is this some kind of race to see who can come up with the worst economic policy?
Maybe they'll duke this out at their townhall meeting at La Raza... ?
Renewable Petroleum: Microbes Eat Waste and Excrete Crude Oil
DBKP | June 15, 2008 | Mondoreb
Posted on 06/15/2008 6:34:27 PM PDT by mondoreb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031618/posts
I eat garbage and excrete methane.
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