Dad, buy your son that camel while you still can.
I am skeptical but the possibilities are awesome.
A new industry and jobs.
and
Terrorism would have to fund itself
I’m not so sure that’s not how it’s done now...on and beneath the sea-bottom.
$30 a barrel gasoline is equivalent to a little over a $1 per gallon gasoline. I can live with that. If this is so simple, and it works, why not do it now at $100/barrel oil?
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I’d hate to be downwind from a thousand acres of cyanobacterium.
Tree-living fungus that manufactures diesel could be new source of green energy
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:07 AM on 05th November 2008
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Gliocladium roseum could be a completely new source of green energy
A tree-living fungus that manufactures diesel fuel has been discovered in South America.
Experts believe the organism, Gliocladium roseum, could potentially be a completely new source of green energy.
The fungus, which lives inside the Ulmo tree in the Patagonian rainforest, naturally produces hydrocarbon fuel similar to the diesel used in cars and trucks.
Scientists were amazed to find that it was able to convert plant cellulose directly into the biofuel, dubbed ‘myco-diesel’.
Crops normally have to converted to sugar and ferment before they can be turned into useful fuel.
Professor Gary Strobel, from Montana State University in the U.S., said: ‘G. roseum can make myco-diesel directly from cellulose, the main compound found in plants and paper.
‘This means if the fungus was used to make fuel, a step in the production process could be skipped.’
Prof Strobel led an investigation into novel fungi in the rainforests of northern Patagonia, which cross the borders of Argentina and Chile.
He found that when the diesel fuel fungus was exposed to potentially toxic antibiotics, it reacted defensively by generating volatile gases.
‘Then when we examined the gas composition of G. roseum, we were totally surprised to learn that it was making a plethora of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon derivatives,’ said Prof Strobel.
‘The results were totally unexpected and very exciting and almost every hair on my arms stood on end.’
Cellulose provides the fibrous supporting structure of plants. During biofuel production, cellulose from plant waste is first treated with enzymes that turn it into sugar. Microbes then ferment the sugar into inflammable ethanol.
Nearly 430 million tonnes of plant waste is produced from farmland each year around the world.
Prof Strobel said: ‘We were very excited to discover that G. roseum can digest cellulose. Although the fungus makes less myco-diesel when it feeds on cellulose compared to sugars, new developments in fermentation technology and genetic manipulation could help improve the yield.
‘In fact, the genes of the fungus are just as useful as the fungus itself in the development of new biofuels.
‘The discovery also questions our knowledge of the way fossil fuels are made. The accepted theory is that crude oil, which is used to make diesel, is formed from the remains of dead plants and animals that have been exposed to heat and pressure for millions of years.
‘If fungi like this are producing myco-diesel all over the rainforest, they may have contributed to the formation of fossil fuels.’
The findings appear in the November issue of the journal Microbiology.
The EIA lists 2007 US Consumption of all forms of Distillate Fuel Oil ("Diesel") as 1,531,508,000 Barrels, or 64,323,336,000 US Gallons
64,323,336,000 gallons / 15,000 gallons/acre = 4288222.4 acres = ~6700 sq miles = Connecticut + Delaware
I understand Exxon-Mobile is partnering with and investing in a number of “alternative fuel” R&D outfits, exploring bio-engineered bacteria, algae and other sources.
I only offer this as a note, in as much as the “alternative fuels” race may (might) go to where ever the biggest R&D efforts are made.
If this is actually true, I’m sure the enviro-wackos in the US will tie them up in court for years to block their imagined impact on the environment. But that assumes this is actually true.
If this is actually true, I’m sure the enviro-wackos in the US will tie them up in court for years to block their imagined impact on the environment. But that assumes this is actually true.
Great. IF this were to be true, just think of the environmental damage when the organism gets loose.
sfl
Has Soro invested in this company? Remember his “new green energy fund”. How many times a new company hypes about something, get government funds, their IPO skyrockets, the insiders sell at inflated price, stock drops to 0 when it goes under and the pensions funds along with private investors are out BILLIONS. No government funding. Say no to corporate welfare.
“What can it mean? No less than “energy independence,” Joule’s web site tells the world,”
The US is awash in hydrocarbons that we refuse to use. We draw red lines around vast areas of the coastal sea-shore, and northern Alaska, and then whine about being “dependent” upon imported oil.
It appears that some people in government simply don’t want the US to be self-sufficient in oil. Instead, we are scolded that being dependent upon wind and solar power is actually a good thing, despite the fact that wind power must have backup natural gas power plants to pick up the load when the wind suddenly stops blowing.
We are not running out of hydrocarbons from which to refine liquid fuels. The only issue is cost. If this company can bring a new source of hydrocarbons to market at a lower cost than crude oil, it will cause unbelievable conflict amongst the big government and environmentalist crowd. This is because their advocacy is not really directed at making life better for us, but quite the opposite. They really want to diminish US power and the prosperity and liberty of individual citizens. Should anyone bring us less expensive fuels, all hell will break loose!
Imagine that bug getting loose in the ocean, secreting oil till the water films over and the sea dying from lack of oxygen.
One bug, one dead planet...
GM is stoooopid.
Holy mackarel!
That much diesel full?
As soon as I sell that bridge I bought last week...
BWAAAAHAAAHAAAAA! '