un ingegnere della Silicon Valley già dipendente di una soft huose ha fatto la scoperta: entro un paio di anni metterà in produzione un bug geneticamente modificato con una innovativa caratteristica: mangia spazzatura e caga petrolio, o meglio Petrolio 2.0.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4133668.eceHe means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.
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The closest that LS9 has come to mass production is a 1,000-litre fermenting machine, which looks like a large stainless-steel jar, next to a wardrobe-sized computer connected by a tangle of cables and tubes. It has not yet been plugged in. The machine produces the equivalent of one barrel a week and takes up 40 sq ft of floor space.
However, to substitute America’s weekly oil consumption of 143 million barrels, you would need a facility that covered about 205 square miles, an area roughly the size of Chicago.
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