Posted on 12/11/2009 5:16:33 PM PST by LibWhacker
ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2009) — Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels.
In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative. The reaction is powered directly by energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
what is the bug gets loose and consumes too much carbon dioxide?
Oh crap - CO2 is plant food! Pray this stuff doesn’t get released.
These morons are going to be the death of us all...
What about Sugar Maples??
Then we produce more SUV's
Here's the deal, whatever we know about this DNA modification we aren't going to learn more since this constitutes a WMD of truly incredible proportions.
One of our posters noted that if CO2 drops below 200 PPM plant life in the area all the plants die ~ and if the AGW folks are "correct" in any respect about CO2 providing any sort of greenhouse effect, it'd probably get doggone cold.
I doubt DOD is going to let this technology get loose.
That and if this bug was “in the wild” we’d have all this isobutanol hanging around polluting (genuinely in this case) our environment.
I’ll take my chances with CO2.
This is the Ice-Nine of 2009. Don’t let it get out.
“The idea isn’t to reduce carbon levels, but to “spread the wealth around...”
The thought has occurred to me that the taxation for the health care bill happen on time and the delivery of actual health services will be delayed or will fail entirely.
But the taxes will stay.
You heard it here first.
What a stellar idea.
Let’s develop a bacteria that can thrive virtually everywhere on the planet, poisons the environment as long as it lives, and, if left to thrive, starves plants so we have nothing to eat.
Brilliant. What could possibly go wrong?
Just reposted an updated piece I did in 07 on Prof Patterson. A Canadian Geo Scientist who accidently discovered the effect of sun spot activity on fish reproduction which challanges CO2 global warming. There is also a link exposing the hockey stick “trick” questioning the IR assumptions causing “warming”.
http://www.theusmat.com/
shades of “Andromeda Strain”.....
I often wondered, if, “evolution” DOES produce “new” instead of differentiated lifeforms, why a bacteria/mold/fungus/virus that could CONSUME and benefit any carbon based molecule would not be the logical result.....
Such a lifeform, would in fact, have the entire organic world as it’s food source, and consume all organic carbon (living or dead) until there was nothing left.
Fortunately, I think there is a reason such things don’t exist -— that “variance within kind” is not possible. It takes some devious gene-splicer to create it.
Will we author our own demise?
The scientific establishment allowed the publication of a report that noted that blue-green algae that were infected with certain viruses produced (released) oxygen at far higher rate than uninfected blue-green algae.
The method described for producing the precursor to gasoline uses pretty much the same bag of genes that were found in nature, but gets them from a different source. Instead of viruses this process claims the genes were extracted from 4 different kinds of bacteria.
Actually, I think they've got the natural process emulated, and may well have improved on it, but they announced something quite different just to throw the competition off track.
So, lissen' up you Rusky and Chicom spies out there ~ we got your number and we're gonna' take away all your CO2 unless you do what we want!
So when the trees start dying from lack of CO2 can we feed them this “fuel’?
Dumbasses!!
Bacteria turn carbon dixoide into fuel
The second link is the original thread. When I searched for it, I only found your new thread.
NO plants = no oxygen
What are the effects of lots of isobutyraldehyde gas?
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