Comment Re:like any gasoline replacement (Score 1) 331
Well, hopefully if they can get this to work with cellulose, we wouldn't then have to worry about the cost of producing sugar as a foodsource, which may nonetheless be less expensive than digging for oil, and it would get us closer to true "carbon neutrality (no net CO2 emission)."
And you're right about the brilliance of the photosynthetic solution (bacteria who fix carbon inthe form of gaseous CO2 using energy from the sun)...as you know that was invented once before in our ancient primordial soup. Our ancestor bacterium, clever little bug, produced a poisonous oxygen species that changed the course of evolution and selected for those bacteria who could cope with this newly abundant molecule in the atmosphere via aerobic respiration...and wouldn't it be funny if we actually made that next bacterium...? Maybe some life will emerge that can cope with a high octane atmosphere...but it's not us!
And you're right about the brilliance of the photosynthetic solution (bacteria who fix carbon inthe form of gaseous CO2 using energy from the sun)...as you know that was invented once before in our ancient primordial soup. Our ancestor bacterium, clever little bug, produced a poisonous oxygen species that changed the course of evolution and selected for those bacteria who could cope with this newly abundant molecule in the atmosphere via aerobic respiration...and wouldn't it be funny if we actually made that next bacterium...? Maybe some life will emerge that can cope with a high octane atmosphere...but it's not us!
