Scientists find bugs that eat waste and dumps petrol.

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No it is not a gupshup it is true.
Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide ‘renewable petroleum’

Read details in Times Online.
Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol

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Re: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and dumps petrol.

Woaaaahh... cool..

But the question is, exactly how much a tiny bug can excrete petrol, in one go??

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Re: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and dumps petrol.

well, its not like you will be using one superbug from kyrpton whose bug parents had sent him to kansas ..

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I just goggled it up, and I found this:
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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. *

Very Innovative, I must add..

Still doesn't give the number of bugs...

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du'hh :D

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Lets feed it KFC so it will quickly become elephant size and we get loads and loads of DUMP ... errrr ... Oil

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I think we need to feed'em nihari and qorma so they have more cholestrol and more oil in the "waste"

How many inches in 1 meter?
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great..wonderful..:chai:

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hahahahah im excited so when are we gonna get bug poop