Bugs poo gasoline

Xaquin44

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Seriously you all, this could be so cool.

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol - Times Online

“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.”

He 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.

let me bold that last statement

They excrete crude oil.
 
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