Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
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Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
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Re: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
#2Should be: "scientists fund bugs that eat waste..."
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#4Should be: "scientists fund bugs that eat waste..."
Actually "entrepreneurs fund bugs that eat waste..."
Re: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
#5Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=217889
Maybe URLs with empty query strings should be stripped of '?' before posted.
Re: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
#6The fact that the company claims
"if LS9 used Brazilian sugar cane as its feedstock, its fuel would probably cost about $50 a barrel. "
it appears they are relying on long-term extremely high gas prices. Isn't sugar cane the most energy rich of the ethanol inputs? If so, then using agricultural waste (as they say they plan on doing), will likely cost a lot more than $50/barrel.
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#7The fact that the company claims "if LS9 used Brazilian sugar cane as its feedstock, its fuel would probably cost about $50 a barrel. " it appears they are relying on long-term extremely high gas prices. Isn't sugar cane the most energy rich of the ethanol inputs? If so, then using agricultural waste (as they say they plan on doing), will likely cost a lot more than $50/barrel.
Even if it currently would cost $1000/barrel, it's still worthwhile to pursue as an alternative to drilling.
Greater efficiency can come in later iterations. Immediately, at any price, it's more carbon-responsible and less politically volatile.
This is exciting stuff!
Re: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
#8http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html is a wonderful resource.
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#9Alternative to drilling = no need to drill in wildlife preserves. [good]
Alternative to drilling = main money-maker of middle east going to be eliminated (good for us, bad for people living there). [bad]
Alternative to drilling = global warming problems going to worsen because oil-user companies (car companies etc...) will have less incentive to become more efficient. I just hope that this "carbon negative" statement they made is not a pr-ploy [ugly]
Re: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
#10The fact that the company claims "if LS9 used Brazilian sugar cane as its feedstock, its fuel would probably cost about $50 a barrel. " it appears they are relying on long-term extremely high gas prices. Isn't sugar cane the most energy rich of the ethanol inputs? If so, then using agricultural waste (as they say they plan on doing), will likely cost a lot more than $50/barrel.
Oil is already at >$130/barrel. $50/barrel would mean less than half the price. The only thing they're relying on is that, long-term, oil doesn't see a halving of its price.