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Renewable Petroleum: Microbes Eat Waste and Excrete Crude Oil
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| June 15, 2008
| Mondoreb
Posted on 06/15/2008 6:34:27 PM PDT by mondoreb
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To: mkjessup
It would be more efficient if the microbes could eat liberals and excrete crude oil I think Al Gore could be considered biomass maybe even biomassive.
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posted on
06/15/2008 7:06:55 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: Little_shoe
Yeah, something about the website is just “too real” for me. Also, I remember a similar story from eons ago.
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posted on
06/15/2008 7:13:25 PM PDT
by
Melinda
To: Dusty Road
????
And you mean?
Something?
To what I said......
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posted on
06/15/2008 7:19:27 PM PDT
by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: mondoreb
Ok so they excrete crude oil. That means you have an oil spill. You’ll have to spend millions to clean that up, restore the environment, fines and so forth.
Oh and they wouldn’t allow you to drill for it anyway.
To: mkjessup
It would be more efficient if the microbes could eat liberals and excrete crude oil, it seems there would be a never-ending supply! LOLWhat would that do to the price of liberals?
To: mondoreb
They should program these bugs to eat kudzu.
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posted on
06/15/2008 7:25:29 PM PDT
by
zot
To: mondoreb
Although there has been some talk of microbes producing petroleumI thought it started with microbes that could eat oil after an oil spill @$40 bbl.....at $130bbl they can reverse the process?
What happens if they get mixed up?
To: Melinda
One thing is true, though: microbes do eat biomass and give off aromatic hydrocarbons, including methane, acetylene, propane and butane. Just drive past any sewage treatment plant and stiff the air.
They also give off hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and other less desirable byproducts. The trick is separating the wanted from the unwanted. They are trying to breed bacteria which will metabolize biomass and give off only the useful hydrocarbons.
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posted on
06/15/2008 7:33:22 PM PDT
by
VietVet
(I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
To: mondoreb
The nothing? How about agricultural waste--wood chips or straw or other biomass. Oh yeah! Who needs compost for soil when we can put it on a chemical diet? Especially when we can put a claque of techno-whores on carbon credits so that they'll always vote for enviro-racketeering power freaks!
Great idea. /s
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posted on
06/15/2008 7:36:20 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(We have people in power with desire for evil.)
To: mondoreb
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posted on
06/15/2008 7:48:19 PM PDT
by
Waco
To: mkjessup
It would be more efficient if the microbes could eat liberals and excrete crude oil, it seems there would be a never-ending supply! LOL More likely, we'd just get a lot of methane....
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posted on
06/15/2008 7:51:59 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
To: mondoreb
As always just a few years down the road and no cost estimate. Something like the oil from algae facility that was going to be built in the Arizona desert, 12 square miles of ponds.
Right.
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posted on
06/15/2008 8:06:58 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: GOPJ
Too dais-ex-machina for me... What is that? An after-dinner speech, in the nick of time?
To: mkjessup
>
It would be more efficient if the microbes could eat liberals and excrete crude oil, it seems there would be a never-ending supply! LOL Nah, wouldn't work. It's like the joke about how biological researchers are turning to using lawyers instead of rats for their experiments, because... there are some things even a rat just won't do...
Well, there are some things even a microbe won't eat...
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posted on
06/15/2008 8:40:26 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Lakeshark
Just adding to the sales pitch you pointed out.
To: mondoreb
Stop clogging FR with irrelevant crap. You have been warned ............ FRegards
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posted on
06/15/2008 8:54:47 PM PDT
by
gonzo
( What Part Of "Shall Not Be Infringed" does anyone have a problem with? The USSC will soon wonder ..)
To: henkster
It might help, but there is no way you can run the American economy on microbe poop. There just won’t be enough of it. Why not? If lowly CO2 can change the world's climate then bugs can make cars go giddy up.
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posted on
06/15/2008 9:18:59 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: mondoreb
Although there has been some talk of microbes producing petroleum, this is the first time I had heard that a large-scale production facility would be ready to open in about three years.There have been quite a few posts about this technology. Check out threads where BellPlantation posts. He has a company doing something similar in Tifton, Georgia.
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posted on
06/15/2008 9:39:37 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Little_shoe
This just seems too real to be true.It's pretty well known that organisms extrude a variety oh hydrocarbons. In aggregate, they pool to form crude oil.
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posted on
06/15/2008 9:42:18 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: mondoreb
Check Bell Plantation and Bell_Energy from Georgia. They have an engineered “bug” eating grass and like bio-mass that is producing hydrocarbons. Things are working well in the lab and a test plant should be running in aTest plant should be running in a couple of months. http://wordpress.com/tag/jc-bell/
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posted on
06/15/2008 9:49:16 PM PDT
by
WellyP
(How much does Huma know?)
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