Thursday, July 3, 2008

Bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

How about that? Bet this would bring the prices of petrol down to really sane levels if it hits off! Non pathogenic strains of E coli are genetically modified to eat waste and literally produce oil. This is what you get when you have a bunch of Silicon Valley people putting their ingenuity and minds into combating the steep price increase.

Expected to be around $50 per barrel, this definitely is way more acceptable than the $140 that we're seeing now. And it's carbon-negative!

2 comments:

PreciousPearl said...

you'd need a lot of bugs to fill up a car though!

AJ7 said...

Ha! Ha! Maybe they're voracious eaters???

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