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[Punk Rock Geek]

So much for clean energy, too.

In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”

http://www.theglobea...article1871149/

[Dopamino]

This is pretty disappointing, actually. The peak oil crash was really our best bet for stopping the destruction of the world.

I'll believe it when I see it though.

[SertraOD]

Not real news...

Try again.

[JohnWayneWasANazi]

Wait, so is this real or not?

[Punk Rock Geek]

SertraOD, on 20 January 2011 - 08:22 AM, said:

Not real news...

Try again.

Is the New York Times a more reputable source?

http://www.nytimes.c...4fuel.html?_r=3

[SertraOD]

LOL...

Patents like this aren't that uncommon... it's just not news. It's hyped up bullshit this company has done this before.

[tiredoflies]

I know a secret.


Dont worry about energy problems ever again.

[Blue Eyed Devil]

I think what Sertra is trying to say is that just because a company has a patent for something, doesn't mean they have a working or effective product, or that the product is even possible to produce.

[Punk Rock Geek]

Blue Eyed Devil, on 21 January 2011 - 06:54 AM, said:

I think what Sertra is trying to say is that just because a company has a patent for something, doesn't mean they have a working or effective product, or that the product is even possible to produce.

Right, but the company says it already has it working:

Joule says it now has “a library” of fossil-fuel organisms at work in its Massachusetts labs, each engineered to produce a different fuel. It has “proven the process,” has produced ethanol (for example) at a rate equivalent to 10,000 U.S. gallons an acre a year. It anticipates that this yield could hit 25,000 gallons an acre a year when scaled for commercial production, equivalent to roughly 800 barrels of crude an acre a year.

It's of course, always possible that they're lying.  So take the story as you will.

[Blue Eyed Devil]

You miss me, PRG?

[Punk Rock Geek]

Blue Eyed Devil, on 21 January 2011 - 05:19 PM, said:

You miss me, PRG?

I miss everyone, all the time.

[Goatseboy]

Even Hitler?

[Dopamino]

Punk Rock Geek, on 21 January 2011 - 05:41 PM, said:

I miss everyone, all the time.

You should really do some target practice then.