Steve,
As I said, simpler. Guess I should have added the word technology. Cow
methane is also being used in a similar manner, though maybe not to power
cars.
I did read the Times article. I'm pretty sure I saw this featured on a local
news program a few months back. I do recall a reference to "green slime".
It's a local company.
Roland
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To: csx2282 ; Tiger's Den
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Save your poop, and fuel your car!
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.stor
y
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
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Editor
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