Famed geneticist creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel

Yahoo! News ^ | February 28, 2008

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

So he’s gonna starve and kill all the trees and plant life ?

[G8 Diplomat]

For plants, yeah. Try putting that in your gas tank.

[Hacklehead]

“Aren’t the things that cause mad cow disease (can’t recall the term for them) neither bacteria nor virus?”

Correct. They are called Prions and are made up of protein only.

[kinoxi]

They don’t know enough to do this. What has been considered ‘junk DNA’ in the past has been found to have uses as our tools improve. The arrogance is scary.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

GW ping

Isn’t methane a worse greenhouse gas than CO2?

[Richard Kimball]

I actually thought of Deep Space Nine and the Jem Haddar. They were genetically designed to die if they didn’t receive a constant supply of some kind of drug.

[Hacklehead]

“I actually thought of Deep Space Nine and the Jem Haddar. They were genetically designed to die if they didn’t receive a constant supply of some kind of drug.”

I’m like that with beer.

[NoLibZone]

This will upset the Apple cart.

"Please to be making no efforts to diversify and researching various non Arab.. I meaning non Fossil fuels energy"

[muawiyah]

Sounds like you've been up against him. What did you do?

(NOTE: Guys who challenge Venter's credentials must put their own on the line first).

[bert]

Alge farts oxygen and water while developing gall diamonds

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Also is used to make that non-nutritive cereal varnish...

[NoLibZone]

"Kind of disappointing that it took 3 posts before someone called this article into question."

LOL!

Amazing how someone just using Internet Explorer can match years of lab work and shot it down!

I bet their great grandfathers were blacksmiths.

[Clock King]

Hmm.. Organism that turns CO2 into fuel... I think we call them trees...

[montag813]

Comments?

Carbon dioxide is not "climate-ruining", as this absurd excuse for a "journalist" wrote. It is one of many essential gasses. And humans are a insignificant factor in the epochal cycle of climate change.

[dangerdoc]

Give me a two million dollar research grant and I’ll give you a ficus.

[Mike Darancette]

Biofuel alternatives to oil are third-generation. The next step is life forms that feed on CO2 and give off fuel such as methane gas as waste, according to Venter.

So the critters Eat CO2 which is a weak greenhouse gas and create CH4 with is a strong Greenhouse gas?

[airborne]

Anything to end Arab control and bankrupt them.

I hope it’s true.

[null and void]

DayAM! That covers it!

[Waco]

I purpose a national EXHALE DAY.

[ModelBreaker]

It’d be hilarious to see the liberals have to call for INCREASED Co2 production for fuel purposes. Maybe we can hook a pipe up to Gore’s house...that things’s a beast.

Nope. If it works, there will be something wrong with it. The greenies goal is not reduced CO2. It is power and the ability to make people live as the greenies think they ought to live.