Posted on 09/15/2010 1:09:11 PM PDT by neverdem
In HTML, it's very long.
Seriously, I hope this produces oil cheaply enough to replace drilled oil, espcially Arab oil. Since it takes the carbon dioxide from the air to get the carbon for the fuel this would count as carbon neutral. The greenies should love it unless then are merely interested in controlling us rather than "saving" the earth.
“The greenies should love it unless then are merely interested in controlling us rather than “saving” the earth.”
If this new product is made by “greedy” “profit-making” private corporations, greenies are likely to oppose it in principle. The only way it would be palatable is if the federal government nationalized the industry on grounds that nobody should profit from a “necessity” like energy.
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“a patent on a genetically altered bacterium ...”
No No GMO!
No No GMO!
NO!! We’re running OUT of resources. We HAVE to run out of resources. If we don’t it will ruin EVERYTHING.
The greenies should love it unless then are merely interested in controlling us rather than saving the earth.
Naaa...it’s nothing other than about taxes and control.
Is this company publicly traded?
Next comes a bacterium you can feed cellulose to (the most abundant bio-macro-molecule) and get pure burnable fuel.
This would be more than a shot across the bow to OPEC, it would be their death knell!
“Ask not for whom the biotechnology bell tolls, it tolls for thee Middle East!”
I hope it pans out, otherwise we’ll be forced to put up with a movie titled “Who killed the Bacteria car?” in a few years.
“Since it takes the carbon dioxide from the air to get the carbon for the fuel this would count as carbon neutral.”
If the greens cared about that they’d admit that fossil fuels are already “carbon neutral”. After all, if the biotic oil origin theory is correct, then all the carbon stored in fossil fuels came out of the atmosphere to begin with, and we are just putting it back when we burn it.
WOW...really sounds good.
Founded in 2007 by Flagship Venture Labs, Joule is privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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What if some of these bacteria ‘escaped’ and started growing in a nasty pond in my yard, would I be able to harvest the alkanes for my own use?
Finally - we’re moving in the right direction...
The greenies are currently opposing a solar plant to be built on scrub land in California if that tells you anything.
It will happen. I am confident for it.
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