Roland,
An interesting project, but not new. During WWII, with limited access
to petroleum, the French and Germans were driving their cars with a
cloth bag on top of the car, filling it with feces, and driving. As
heard it, it was quite a bit smelly, but I wasn't there.
/*" The researchers, at South San Francisco-based biotechnology company
LS9 Inc., created their biological hydrocarbon factory using genes from
water-dwelling blue-green **algae that naturally make tiny amounts of
the fuel. They transplanted the **genes into E. coli and, with a few
more genetic tweaks, adjusted the bug's metabolism so it churned out 100
times more fuel than the algae did."
*/*
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-biofuels-20100805,0,7105447.story*
Sounds like the e-coli bacteria is an engineered strain, and not
directly from excrement.
Read the referenced extract.
And NO, I am not converting my TIGER!
Steve
Steve Laifman
Editor
http://TigersUnited.com
csx2282 wrote:
> Or this simpler alternative http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10884539
>
> Roland
>
>> Tigers,
>>
>> Just read in the LA Times that bio-scientists are using algae and e-coli
>> bacteria to create a combined organism that creates diesel fuel. No oil
>> required.
>>
>> Read it, and save your poop, and some algae from your fish tank. With a
>> little lab work you can create your own diesel fuel !!!!
>>
>> Screw the Arabs oil blackmail. Read this LA Times article!
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-biofuels-20100805,0,7105447.story
>>
>>
>> <;-)
>>
>> (But seriously, it does work at a laboratory basis now. On the other
>> hand, BP may be hiring all the scientists!) Standard Oil has a simpler
>> concept - hire some assassins - save money.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> --
>>
>> Steve Laifman
>>
>> Editor
>>
>> http://TigersUnited.com
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