This story has been making the rounds for the past week but I couldn't find a decent ACTUAL story about it until today. Apparently a startup is Silicon Valley is using a genetically modified bacteria to produce a near clone of good 'ole fashioned oil. That's right, you mix the bacteria with a biomass of some kind, the bacteria digests and then essentially "shits" oil.
Scenario number one, if it works as proposed then it's awesome. We can all have a little mini bacteria refinery in our garages; dump your grass clippings in every week and out comes sweet, sweet gasoline.
Scenario number two (the Resident Evil scenario if you will), it doesn't work and the genetically modified bacteria turns out to be completely insaitable. The bacteria consumes the entire planet's biomass and converts the entire Earth into a giant ball of hydrocarbon goodness.
Either way it could mean the end of our dependence on oil. If the process is reliable, scalable and not apocalyptic in some way.
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http://www.hogrockcafe.com/ready_whip_in_her_can.htm
That didn't look like oil.
I'll see your ready whip and raise you vomit. http://www.muchosucko.com/show/classy_asian_puking_video-45462/kind/video
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