[Tigers] Save your poop, and fuel your car!

[Steve Laifman]

Roland,

An interesting project, but not new.  During WWII, with limited access 
to petroleum, the French and Germans were driving their cars with a 
cloth bag on top of the car, filling it with feces, and driving.  As 
heard it, it was quite a bit smelly, but I wasn't there.

/*" The researchers, at South San Francisco-based biotechnology company 
LS9 Inc., created their biological hydrocarbon factory using genes from 
water-dwelling blue-green **algae that naturally make tiny amounts of 
the fuel. They transplanted the **genes into E. coli and, with a few 
more genetic tweaks, adjusted the bug's metabolism so it churned out 100 
times more fuel than the algae did."
*/*
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-biofuels-20100805,0,7105447.story*

Sounds like the e-coli bacteria is an engineered strain, and not 
directly from excrement.

Read the referenced extract.

And NO, I am not converting my TIGER!

Steve

Steve Laifman

Editor

http://TigersUnited.com



csx2282 wrote:
> Or this simpler alternative http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10884539
>
> Roland
>
>> Tigers,
>>
>> Just read in the LA Times that bio-scientists are using algae and e-coli
>> bacteria to create a combined organism that creates diesel fuel.  No oil
>> required.
>>
>> Read it, and save your poop, and some algae from your fish tank. With a
>> little lab work you can create your own diesel fuel !!!!
>>
>> Screw the Arabs oil blackmail.  Read this LA Times article!
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-biofuels-20100805,0,7105447.story 
>>
>>
>> <;-)
>>
>> (But seriously, it does work at a laboratory basis now. On the other
>> hand, BP may be hiring all the scientists!) Standard Oil has a simpler
>> concept - hire some assassins - save money.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Steve Laifman
>>
>> Editor
>>
>> http://TigersUnited.com