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From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've heard of bacteria eating oil...has bacteria been engineered
to excrete oil?
The hottest area of biodiesel R&D is Algae-based.
Without getting too fine a distinction, Algae and bacteria are
both single-celled and so close that who cares about the
difference ?
Most curious - in the semantics of this - is that technically, one
prime candidate organism for biodiesel is not a true algae - that
is what is commonly referred to as blue-green algae - which is a
cyanobacteria.
So the answer is yes - bacteria/algae is the true future of
biodiesel - because in most cases we are not doing the morally
reprehensible thing - which is substituting food crops for energy.
In fact - if there is an oil-nut that produces 35% diesel oil,
then even the 65% of waste can serve as the "food" for bacteria in
order to give a yield of near 100% of the total biomass.
Hopefully.
