Comment Re:With apologies to Archimedes... (Score 1) 490

by slapmastered on Friday May 29, 2009 @09:28AM (#28137819) Attached to: My favorite simple machine is ...

See, that was my thought process also, but yet the Inclined Plane gets no love from Slashdot... What gives people?

Comment Re:Men are Pigs ... (Score 1) 604

by slapmastered on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @02:32PM (#27762347) Attached to: When it comes to the Swine Flu, I am ...

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

Comment Re:Supply energy to the world! (Score 1) 197

by slapmastered on Thursday December 04, 2008 @03:48PM (#25993333) Attached to: Talk-Powered Cell Phones Won't Need Batteries

Or paste this piezoelectric material on the walls of Congress and solve the energy crisis. There's enough bulls*** being thrown around there to power the world a hundred times over...

GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources 525

Posted by timothy on Monday June 16, 2008 @06:13AM from the hey-I'm-crude-and-oily-so-clone-me dept.

polymath69 writes "According to The Times Online, genetically modified microbes have been developed capable of turning surplus material such as wood chips, sugarcane, or others, not into ethanol, but into a substance which could substitute directly for crude oil. They claim it could be sold for about $50/bbl, and the production process would be carbon negative."

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