Bacteria are the life force of this world, they help us digest, they breakdown our waste and of course they create our alcohol.
But Genetic experimentation has taken things just one step further this week. Scientists have made and tested a bacterium that will eat a common produce, possibly even garbage, and excrete pure petroleum.
Not only that but for all you Carbon footprint nuts out there this bug actually has a negative carbon footprint, that means that when these bugs are working they will infact consume more carbon than they excrete while creating the petrol. So could this really be a carbon reducing, garbage reducing, environmentally safe way to create petrol and remove America from foreign oil dependence?
Well yes, currently, ermmmm…. one catch though…
You would need a factory the size of Chicago to do so.
The good news is that the scientists who created the fuel pooping bacteria are working hard on refining the bug to increase its productivity and growth. Who knows in a couple of years we could have home garbage disposal units that make petrol for us!
A man can dream…
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