Hot compost bugs promise greener fuel from cellulosic waste
A laboratory of hot, bubbling jars of bacteria
near London holds the key to curbing CO2 pollution from cars.
A laboratory of hot, bubbling jars of bacteria near
London holds the key to curbing CO2 pollution from cars, says Hamish Curran,
Chief Executive of Britain’s TMO
Renewables.
“We have the organism people have dreamt of — it eats nearly anything and it makes ethanol really quickly,” he added.
Workers started pouring cement last week to lay the foundations for TMO’s demonstration plant, which should come on stream early in 2008, running at around 65 degrees Celsius and producing 1 million liters of ethanol a year.
There is more to TMO, however, than just one bacteria that eats woody waste and excretes ethanol.
“We have an interesting beasty that was found on the side of a volcano in Montserrat just before it exploded (in 1995),” said Curran. “That one eats vegetable oil, drinks methanol and shits biodiesel.”
Read through the whole article. Scientists like this scare the bejabbers out of the Oil Patch boys and their pocket pool politicians. They’re not only out to make a profit from renewables - they’re out to compete on price with fossil fuels.
“We have the organism people have dreamt of — it eats nearly anything and it makes ethanol really quickly,” he added.
Workers started pouring cement last week to lay the foundations for TMO’s demonstration plant, which should come on stream early in 2008, running at around 65 degrees Celsius and producing 1 million liters of ethanol a year.
There is more to TMO, however, than just one bacteria that eats woody waste and excretes ethanol.
“We have an interesting beasty that was found on the side of a volcano in Montserrat just before it exploded (in 1995),” said Curran. “That one eats vegetable oil, drinks methanol and shits biodiesel.”
Read through the whole article. Scientists like this scare the bejabbers out of the Oil Patch boys and their pocket pool politicians. They’re not only out to make a profit from renewables - they’re out to compete on price with fossil fuels.
Posted: Fri - August 24, 2007 at 06:38 AM