Dragonchasers » science http://dragonchasers.com But what will you do when you catch one!? Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:03:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Oil 2.0? http://dragonchasers.com/2008/06/16/oil-20/ http://dragonchasers.com/2008/06/16/oil-20/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:32:04 +0000 Pete http://dragonchasers.com/2008/06/16/oil-20/ We see articles vaguely along these lines all the time. What’s interesting about this one is that the technology is already up and running on a small scale, and plans are for a commercial plant to be online by 2011…just a couple years out.

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol – Times Online

He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.

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