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Renewable Petroleum: Bug eat wheat and excretes crude oil

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:31 am
by Ploid
Interesting.
http://www.weberence.com/2008/06/15/ren ... crude-oil/

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Scientists in California have managed to stumble upon what seems to be the discovery of the century. The genetic alteration of bugs created a super species that can eat agricultural waste (woodchips, wheat straw etc) and excrete crude oil. This “renewable petroleum” promises to keep us addicted to the black gold and and (hopefully) drop the price of the oil pumped out of Middle East. LS9 which represents a group of Silicon Valley companies that are behind this idea, creates strains of nonpathogenic micro organisms (the timesonline.co.uk calls it yeast) (E. coli with an altered DNA) that gives out the “Oil 2.0″. Lets hope that all these genetic mutations of bugs do not “spread out” and cause more harm than good.

Re: Renewable Petroleum: Bug eat wheat and excretes crude oil

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:48 am
by ItsSeflol
tl;dnr

Re: Renewable Petroleum: Bug eat wheat and excretes crude oil

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:47 am
by Ploid
You know, I had to look up tl;dnr to see what it meant lol.

1. tl;dnr

Stands for: "Too long; did not read." Usually used in response to annoyingly long forum threads and blogs.

Someone's boring post: "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

Your smartass response: TL;DNR


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl%3Bdnr

:lol:

Re: Renewable Petroleum: Bug eat wheat and excretes crude oil

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:57 pm
by Yorke
I too had to look up what it meant. We aren't all internet superstars like Mr. Sefagdin here.

Re: Renewable Petroleum: Bug eat wheat and excretes crude oil

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:03 pm
by Bodycount
power our cars on insect excretions?

wot will they thing of next :orly:

Re: Renewable Petroleum: Bug eat wheat and excretes crude oil

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:54 pm
by ItsSeflol
But...you DO admit I'm a superstar.

Re: Renewable Petroleum: Bug eat wheat and excretes crude oil

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:01 am
by Ploid
Dis is true.

Re: Renewable Petroleum: Bug eat wheat and excretes crude oil

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:18 am
by Nieryo
how is one paragraph too long to read???