{"id":5429,"date":"2008-06-18T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2008-06-18T18:40:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:40:02","slug":"modified-bugs-would-eat-poo-and-crap-oil-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/modified-bugs-would-eat-poo-and-crap-oil-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Modified Bugs would Eat Poo and Crap Oil 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article4133668.ece' class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dieselfuel385_352162a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dieselfuel385_352162a1\" width=\"385\" height=\"185\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5431\" \/><\/a>He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c very, very small ones \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What is most remarkable about what they are doing is that instead of trying to reengineer the global economy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as is required, for example, for the use of hydrogen fuel \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they are trying to make a product that is interchangeable with oil. The company claims that this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article4133668.ece\" class=\"external external_icon\">&#8220;Oil 2.0&#8221; will not only be renewable but also carbon negative<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c meaning that the carbon it emits will be less than that sucked from the atmosphere by the raw materials from which it is made.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article4133668.ece\" class=\"external external_icon\">times online<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eggradio.com\/bbs\/viewtopic.php?f=1&#038;t=6032&#038;p=61425#p61419\" class=\"external external_icon\">eggradio <\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious. He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c very, very small ones \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. [&#8230;] What is most remarkable about what they are doing is that instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,77],"tags":[214,4931,213,106,215],"class_list":["post-5429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloning","category-science","category-the-future","tag-bugs","tag-cloning","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-naming-things","tag-oil-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}