The prospect of producing fuel from bacteria was floated a long while ago but one company has managed to deliver something of a minor miracle in the form of a bacteria that will provide a near identical substitute for oil itself:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece
Just a couple of concerns.
Are we confident these beasties won't escape, become out of control, and start cultivating lakes of crude on a scale usually reserved for washed up oil tankers?
The process is - apparently - carbon negative, so assuming they will be a raving success will they simply tilt the problem in the other direction. I.e. from an atmosphere suffering a carbon surplus to one suffering a carbon defecit?
Carbon depletion - coming to this world soon?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment