E. coli could convert sugar to biodiesel at 'an extraordinary rate'

http://www.physorg.com ^ | November 14, 2011 | By Louis Bergeron + Provided by Stanford University

[Red Badger]

Xingye Yu, a graduate student in chemical engineering, and Professor Chaitan Khosla examine a culture of e. coli bacteria.

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[Red Badger]

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[G Larry]

Send all of your sugar to D.C. and begin a new industrial revolution with “alternative energy”!

As the E. coli capital of the world, D.C. will have solved our energy crisis!

[BuffaloJack]

Food is already expensive. Finding another way of burning our food is just wrong.

[Space Patrol Hoppa]

I guarantee that neither of them ever “occupied” anything except a study carrel in the library during their years in college.

Bravo to these pioneers of science.

[SouthTexas]

But E. coli's natural conversion capability is not up to snuff, commercially speaking, and researchers tinkering with its internal machinery have yet to boost its capability enough to cross the commercial threshold.

But maybe, perhaps, someday, it might, if, with more grants...

[Doc Savage]

It sure as hell converts beer and hot chili into methane!

[NoLibZone]

I’d like to see E. coli injected into the Princess’s face.

I bet it would help.

[Political Junkie Too]

The student is wearing protective gloves while handling E. coli, but the professor is not?

-PJ

[NoLibZone]

The greens , who are employed by the Saudi’s, are already working on counter measures.

[aruanan]

She may be required in her lab to wear gloves all the time. I only did when I needed to protect stuff from me. Lab E. coli is fairly innocuous.

[Balding_Eagle]

Food is already expensive. Finding another way of burning our food is just wrong.

We are living in a time when our food is cheaper than it's ever been in the history of humankind.

The reason it's so cheap is because we have too much of it, and don't know what to do with the monntains of surplus.

Burning is better than plowing it under.

See tagline.

[KarlInOhio]

Mabye the Occupier who was crapping on the police car just thought that his E. coli would convert tofu to gasoline.

[KarlInOhio]

The student is wearing protective gloves while handling E. coli, but the professor is not?

The gloves are to protect her from the professor (or vice versa).

[DannyTN]

Sounds like we will be burning “soap”.

I bet the occupy protestors could get behind this.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"E. Coli!"

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo!

I was in Costco earlier and overheard a couple of black women (looked like a mother-daughter) talking and lamenting the price of food. It was all I could do to keep from blurting out “How’s that Hope and Change working out for you?”

[onyx]

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[Moonman62]

You’ve been posting these types of stories for awhile. They are entertaining and offer people hope. I’ve been following such stories for decades. How many of these “too good to be true” PR releases from academics have foretold actual products?

[Red Badger]

Sooner or later the academics or some guy in his garage will hit upon a great discovery that will transform the energy industry.

I betting on the guy in his garage................