Chinese discover microbes eating oil in the wild.

[seraosha]

The creation of microbes to help in the recovery of petrochemical spillage and contamination cleanup has been done for a while, but now the Chinese have discovered them in the "wild"...as in naturally occurring petrochemical consuming microbes.

Cool link.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

Very cool. But I'd be more interested in a microbe that eats old PC boards and craps 92 octane gas.

[seraosha]

Working on it...I'll let you know what stock to buy.

[ZeroZen]

Cool, now we have to find out if those oil-eating microbes are edible...

[Altavista]

interesting, ye, i'd rather like a microbe can eat old pcs.

[King of the Grey]

Consume enough of these microbes, we can also convert raw materails into usable energy sources! y'know, like, breathing air so you can excrete oil

[camerashy]

WOW! If these microbes really eat oil they could obliterate the economies of Arab oil producers...and pretty much everyone else's too. Wonder if these things could mutate, sounds like a good movie idea.

[Holmes85]

I think you folks are forgetting what happens to a valuable energy source, because once these microbes eat the oil it's not coming back for a very long time.

That also means less car fuel to go around in the world.

Of course, could you imagine a mutant strain devouring all the worlds oil supplies in a matter of months.

[ZeroZen]

Oh yeah it reminds me of this one...

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Those things will eat us alive...