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06-17-2008, 01:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville | | | Bacteria Eats Garbage, Craps Oil
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4133668.ece
I hope I didn't just fall for somekind of June-Fools joke, but it looks pretty legit. |
06-17-2008, 01:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Leeds, UK | | | Carbon-negative oil sounds like a very good stop-gap until better technologies mature. This could be a very interesting story to follow. |
06-17-2008, 01:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | Dibs lock please. |
06-17-2008, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | Go for it. |
06-17-2008, 05:35 PM
| | Believe in absurdities and you commit atrocities | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cleveland, OH | | | cool...we shall see.
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06-17-2008, 05:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: berkeley, ca | | definitely doesn't seem like a long-term solution, if this process would require a chicago-sized refinery to fully replace imported oil, as the article suggests.
still, just about anything is better than the current situation.  |
06-17-2008, 06:05 PM
| | | | Chicago-sized refinery isn't too bad when you think of the country-sized oil fields needed for drilling. |
06-17-2008, 06:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Winnipeg, Canada | | | Sounds very promising indeed, and this will be something to follow up on.
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06-17-2008, 06:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Iowa | | Sounds like a plan. My idea (and plenty of other people have thought of these sorts of things before), was to modify photosynthetic bacteria to do the job. Then again this might be just as efficient.
It really doesn't matter how big the refinery is, or how much it costs. I'd rather pay $10/gallon for domestic gas than $4/gallon from the middle east. We'd see a tremendous drop in unemployment and a huge shift in the trade deficit.
Chances are though, if this ever gets big... OPEC will just crank output to the max, oil will drop to under $50 a barrel, and the bacteria oil producing factories, as well as all the other sustainability/hybrid/whatever businesses will close. Then prices will go back up. It's a tough game  |
06-17-2008, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jokn388 Chicago-sized refinery isn't too bad when you think of the country-sized oil fields needed for drilling. | I don't believe oil fields are generally that large. |
06-17-2008, 07:08 PM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | | I'd sure like to believe in renewable oil. But then I'd also like to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and honest politicians.
Whenever they can churn it out on a large enough scale that it HAS to be for real, then I'll consider believing in it.
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06-17-2008, 09:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Singapore | | | Love this comment: there is an organism that takes CO2 from the air and releases O2 its called a tree. When the tree is done then you can convert it into oil.
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06-17-2008, 11:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | I crap oil. whats the big deal |
06-18-2008, 01:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | While it is interesting, it's not the answer.
IMO we need to get rid of the internal combustion engine from cars. Electricity is a much better option.
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06-18-2008, 02:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | Unless we can get the majority of the manufacturing process to stop burning fossil fuels, cars are the least of our problems.
It would be a nice accomplishment, but it just wouldnt be very effective. |
06-18-2008, 02:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Finland, EU | | | Bacteria and other micro-organisms are doing more and more technological stuff in the future. The massive, nature-tested diversity of millions of species offers us a fairly nice playground to abuse. Different species of bacteria alone can be used for pretty much anything, from cleaning up oil to brewing medical chemicals such as antibiotics - and these are already in full-scale production.
There's practically nothing micro-organisms couldn't do, in terms of chemical processing and such - there's even a form of algae that gathers microscopic bits of gold from sea water! What is the hard part, is learning how to keep massive colonies alive and functioning on a large scale - you'd think it's fairly simple, but we currently know how to grow only a couple of thousand species of bacteria in the lab environment, and even if these are pumped into nature for some role, the natural bacteria tend to compete with them and can mess up the whole process.
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06-18-2008, 05:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Disco_Gee While it is interesting, it's not the answer.
IMO we need to get rid of the internal combustion engine from cars. Electricity is a much better option. | Yes indeed. Let's just wait about 70 years, then my country's oil and gas reserves will be depleted 
On a more serious note, the most positive thing is that it eats garbage. I really don't think it'd be beneficial to enter another age of oil consumption. Then again it's organic waste, so the garbage-eating isn't all that usefull anyway.
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06-18-2008, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by funkalicious101 Unless we can get the majority of the manufacturing process to stop burning fossil fuels, cars are the least of our problems.
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We have to start somewhere....
People need to stop acting like these efforts are futile. Every little bit counts.
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06-18-2008, 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Disco_Gee While it is interesting, it's not the answer.
IMO we need to get rid of the internal combustion engine from cars. Electricity is a much better option. | Electricity is not a better option, it's a good option for some...
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06-18-2008, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Ericman197 Chances are though, if this ever gets big... OPEC will just crank output to the max, oil will drop to under $50 a barrel, and the bacteria oil producing factories, as well as all the other sustainability/hybrid/whatever businesses will close. Then prices will go back up. It's a tough game | This is probably a spot-on prediction.
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