[DaxtonBrown]

This makes nooo sense. Where does the E.coli get the energy to bump CO2 up to a hydrocarbon? E.Coli lives on crap, it isn’t a photosynthesizer. I guess the energy just poops itself into existence.

[woofie]

The engine on the bus goes poop poop poop

[devere]

“Where does the E.coli get the energy to bump CO2 up to a hydrocarbon?”

Sunlight, of course.

The limiting resource in the process is probably water.