1. 23 Jan



    A brave new world of fossil fuels on demand

    krispayne:

    tnkcmndr:

    theslyestfox:

    bearslair:

    In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”

    Totally amazing or totally scary?  

    Little bit of column a, little bit of column b.
    However wary I am of creating entirely new lifeforms if it helps the planet not be so polluted and it’s not detrimental to…anything then I’m all for it.

    Next contender for the Nobel Prize?

    Everyone at said company will soon be dead and the smoking gun will be dripping with oil and politics.

    Ditto.

     
  1. murf1977 reblogged this from dubliner and added:
    Remarkable, if it actually works.
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    I’m calling bullshit based on the MS Paint picture on their wiki page.
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    In September, a privately held...highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule...
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    this is absolutely ridiculous.. if they can make the bacteria use more CO2 than burning fossil fuels emit… have we...
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    Everyone at said company will soon be dead and the smoking gun will be dripping with oil and politics.
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    Next contender for another GREMLINS screenplay?
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    Next contender for the Nobel Prize?
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    column a, little bit...column b. However wary I am
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