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Default Bacteria Engineered to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liquid Fuel

regn.pickfod wrote:
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1210162222.htm

"..........researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a
cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel
isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative. The
reaction is powered directly by energy from sunlight, through
photosynthesis."


Let's hope it doesn't escape controlled conditions and run rampant in the
environment
- it might fill the atmosphere with an inflamable gas.


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