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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Shadowrider]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of cyanobacteria have retained me to act as their spokesman.  They want me to mention that:
1)  They have been doing something much like this for over 3 billion years without any thanks from us allegedly higher organisms.
2)  The waste they use is, in fact, carbon dioxide which we &quot;higher&quot; organisms are just beginning to realize may have...consequences.
3)  They can produce up to 30% of their biomass as oil.  Though they don't thing of this as &quot;poo&quot;(oxygen is their poo), they aren't really big enough to fight us for it.
4)  Although they already grow quite well in the ocean,  they are willing to trade us a great deal of oil for some fertilizer...rust, farm waste, stuff like that.  Space to grow is no real problem as the cost of a few hundred square !$%*! of ocean is $0.00.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Churchill101]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When you look at it, since it is bacteria that poops out the oil wouldn't the oil look like it was coming out of thin air?  If they start mass producing this bacteria in some building wouldn't be funny if some of it got out of it's little cage and started pooping oil out of thin air on the workers!
         Worker A:    &quot;Man, some of the bacteria just pooped on my clean white shirt.&quot;

         Worker B:    &quot;Get all of the oil out now! We could use it for the lawn mower!&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Inspire This]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For that entire entry I thought that the bacteria ate &quot;garbage&quot; and &quot;poop oil&quot;.


I spent the whole entry trying to figure out what &quot;poop oil&quot; was.

And if I made any when I pooped.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from robalan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I would hate to see a renewable source of the same old oil override our drive (sic) to replace the archaic technology...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Alejandra]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[yankee devil! ha ha ha 

Im sure his snappy retoric to you would be:  &quot;you messed up with me birdy, YU AR A DONKEY MISTER ADAMS!&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from quantum_flux]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I hope, for the sake of everyone here, that nano-scale thermoelectrics will be much more efficient at converting detritus into crude oil than human E. Coli virus.  Also, this bug has the potential for being the worst bug ever, did you ever think about that!?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from andrewlammers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sweet!  This would be a carbon-neutral way of powering our vehicles, too.  But we still have to figure out how to make our cars stop producing nitrogen compounds and carbon monoxide.  Maybe some bacteria could be engineered to eat nitrogen compounds and carbon monoxide and poop out Clif bars.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dsg]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi Scott,

I would pay to join that lottery. However, the article states that the cost per barrel of production of poop oil is $50. That is a very high cost, roughly what it costs to pump oil out of the ground in TX. I believe that the best oil producers are around $30/barrel. Poop oil is pretty expensive.

I would still like to throw a bunch of that bacteria into my septic tank, attach a pump and see what happens.

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from gargamel9]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[So sorry to be the YSLE but I had hopped that this crisis would finally make people see that it is imposible to maintain the ilusion that each person, in an increisingly overcrowding planet, can have a private car.

Making renewable oil combined with that car that guy made that costs 2000â‚¬ ? How can all this supposedly inteligent people all over the world dont realise what that would mean for the planet and people that inhabit it? Millions of cars more! Thats a good thing??Â¿? 

This &quot;great advance&quot; will be the dinamite or the machine gun of the XXI century.I really hope it's just and hoax to get some goverment money, like all the other miracle processes to convert garbage into energy.

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from sjanlaird]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's only a shame that &quot;poop baron&quot; doesn't quite have the same cachet to it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Stui]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As some others have mentioned, the idea of a bacteria that digests organic matter and converts it to petroleum scares the bejeebus out of me.

Your little joke about feeding some to the president of Venezuala could only be part of the story. if those things got lose and mutated, they could be seriously dangerous.

Don't like that pesky 3rd world country? Infect them and turn the whole populace into oil slicks.

Want to clear that annoying potion of rainforest? Introduce some bugs and not only do the trees all come down, but you get enough oil to power the tractor for the next decade.

Instead of creating bugs that eat organic matter, a really useful one would be bugs that eat plastic and convert it back to oil.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RayKremer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's also this, essentially the same kind of thing but without bacteria:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Playtah]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I know - I have friends who work on the commode-ities market, and the price of poop has hit the fan!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Renaldo]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I do wish fewer people read this blog ..... the price of poop went up 45% today as poop speculators went on a buying frenzy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from turkey goblet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Poop for Peace!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Playtah]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[My car already kind of runs on poop.  If I'm low on gas, I threaten to throw poop on someone unless they pay for a tank of gas for me.  It's amazing what people will do under threat of poop.  My car has been &quot;running&quot; on poop for 3 years.  My next goal is taking over a small country under threat of poop.  I call it a &quot;poo coup&quot;.  Watch out, Uraguay.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Soul Catcher]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm wondering whether there are plans to test this bacteria out -in say NWFP or Tora Bora.  I have a feeling this bacteria causes deserts as well as producing Oil, and would probably clean out tunnels really well.  Also, it would give Pakistan, China and Afganistan on the map as oil producers, cause really NWFP is going to end up one big Nato territory.  (Pakistan has given up de facto control of the region, and if they continue, they can be labeled as a country that supports terrorism).




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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mont3904]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I already think $140/barrel for oil is one of the best things to happen.

I don't mind paying $4.199/gallon for gas for two reasons:

1) With my car (2004 Kia Rio) and the way I drive, I average about 40mpg city driving. I don't use the freeway much.

2) The higher that gas prices go the sooner someone is going to make a huge change in our energy sources.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from l33tminion]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Guess we'll see if it scales.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tomabanjo]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We all know from our phd educations that oil comes only and exclusively from dinosaurs and is therefore non renewable. That's what the fossil in fossil fuel means isn't it? Non-renewable dead dinosaurs dependent on foreign oil. They say it over and over and over so it must be true musn't it? I guess Chavez in your story means &quot;dependent on foreign oil&quot;  That mean old dictator, that must be why gasoline costs so much at the pump for us phd educated americanos. Maybe it's that evil dictator in Iraq Iran and Afganistan, those foreign oil bad boyz. Somebody should make a Plan for a New American Century to fix all this dependence on foreign non renewable fossil feul made from dead dinosaurs.  Maybe Haliburton can help. 
As for bacterial conversion of general waste to oil...what about the children? This could hurt the children and be bad for freedom. For security reasons the government is not at liberty to explain why it will threaten your children but trust them, they are protecting you from bad scary things. I was wondering, how many dinosaurs do we burn  per day? BTW why was it that the oil companies cut down and rolled the rain forests? O yeah, to feed the poor, or was it to protect children from dependence on foreign oil made from non renewable dinosaur fossils?]]></description>
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