LiveWire Network Peer Answers Peer Support Teen Forums Tech Forums College Forums 432 users online 221732 members 1716 active today Advertise Here Sign In
TeenCollegeTechPhotos | Quizzes | LiveSecret | Memberlist | Dictionary | News | FAQ
Member Spotlight
Total Destruction
Cool Things: Neon genesis evangelion
Mood: Honest
You have 1 new message.
Emergency Help
Until you sign up you can't do much. Yes, it's free.

Sign Up Now
Membername:
Password:
Already have an account?
Invite Friends
Active Members
Groups
Contests
Moderators
4 online / 28 MPM
Fresh Topics
  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Science & Business / Viewing Topic

Fuel crisis solved!
Replies: 12Last Post June 26, 2008 8:27pm by Bobman21
Welcome to LiveWire!
We're Stronger Together.
Join the Community
Single page for this topic Email Print Favorite
( Darkane )


Guru

Patron
Tech Support Leader
Reply
Well, nearly:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece

Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

-------
last.fm


7:41 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: Aug. 2007 | Days Active: 723
Join to learn more about Darkane Ireland | Straight Male | Posts: 10,707 | Points: 21,843
LiveWire Humor
snowcone200


Enlightened One

Patron
Reply
Quote: from Darkane at 7:41 am on June 16, 2008

Well, nearly:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece

Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.



*cuddles up with Darkane*

7:41 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: Mar. 2007 | Days Active: 347
Join to learn more about snowcone200 Georgia, United States | Label Free Male | Posts: 12,694 | Points: 16,672
Byble


o' lk 'm custo 'gain

Patron
Reply
lol thats funny..


but the fuel crisis will be sold when they make proper electric cars.



and anyways that will take  years to do in research etc and take ages to make it

-------
Chicken


7:42 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: Mar. 2007 | Days Active: 414
Join to learn more about Byble England, United Kingdom | Label Free | Posts: 13,821 | Points: 31,327
( Darkane )


Guru

Patron
Tech Support Leader
Reply
Quote: from snowcone200 at 3:41 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from Darkane at 7:41 am on June 16, 2008

Well, nearly:  
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece  

 Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.



*cuddles up with Darkane*

awh

They said they'd have a factory up and running by 2011 but yeah the electric car front is looking pretty good.

-------
last.fm


7:44 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: Aug. 2007 | Days Active: 723
Join to learn more about Darkane Ireland | Straight Male | Posts: 10,707 | Points: 21,843
Byble


o' lk 'm custo 'gain

Patron
Reply
Quote: from Darkane at 3:44 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from snowcone200 at 3:41 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from Darkane at 7:41 am on June 16, 2008

Well, nearly:  
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece  

  Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.


 
 *cuddles up with Darkane*

  awh

They said they'd have a factory up and running by 2011 but yeah the electric car front is looking pretty good.



yay

but it seems with this.. they are just trying to stop the world creating cars which run on stuff like electricity.. which like electric cars which could drive practically as fast as normal cars was invented and leased to people then they decided to crush them all.. ¬_¬

which i find really stupid.. :(.. and i didn't even know about them untill it was shown on who killed the electric car..


Ev1:

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q274/Byble/ev1.jpg

the eleccy car.. and it practically looks like a normal car



-------
Chicken


7:49 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: Mar. 2007 | Days Active: 414
Join to learn more about Byble England, United Kingdom | Label Free | Posts: 13,821 | Points: 31,327
( Darkane )


Guru

Patron
Tech Support Leader
Reply
Quote: from Byble at 3:49 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from Darkane at 3:44 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from snowcone200 at 3:41 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from Darkane at 7:41 am on June 16, 2008

Well, nearly:  
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece  

  Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.



  *cuddles up with Darkane*

 

  awh  

 They said they'd have a factory up and running by 2011 but yeah the electric car front is looking pretty good.


 
yay

but it seems with this.. they are just trying to stop the world creating cars which run on stuff like electricity.. which like electric cars which could drive practically as fast as normal cars was invented and leased to people then they decided to crush them all.. ¬_¬

which i find really stupid.. :(.. and i didn't even know about them untill it was shown on who killed the electric car..

 
Ev1:

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q274/Byble/ev1.jpg

the eleccy car.. and it practically looks like a normal car


Yeah I get what you mean, there'll probably be uproar about it when the time comes closer.
Sure Ford have this 4x4 that's meant to be like a plug-in hybrid. There'll all jumping on the band wagon now :p
Tesla teamed up with Lotus to design their electric cars and they look unreal.

Bring on the electric cars! :O

-------
last.fm


7:51 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: Aug. 2007 | Days Active: 723
Join to learn more about Darkane Ireland | Straight Male | Posts: 10,707 | Points: 21,843
Bonolove


Visionary
Reply
that's cucking fool!!

-------
You dont tug on supermans cape,you dont spit in the wind, you don't pull
the mask off an old lone ranger and you don't mess around w Jim

7:58 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: April 2007 | Days Active: 337
Join to learn more about Bonolove Wisconsin, United States | Bisexual Female | Posts: 5,786 | Points: 9,877
iconoclast

corporate drone

Patron
Reply
Quote: from Byble at 10:42 am on June 16, 2008

lol thats funny..

 
but the fuel crisis will be sold when they make proper electric cars.

 

 
and anyways that will take years to do in research etc and take ages to make it


well electric cars are already here if thats what you meant

theres just inertia from many angles


-------
join this group only if youre a mod


9:50 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: April 2005 | Days Active: 792
Join to learn more about iconoclast New Jersey, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 37,384 | Points: 48,675
TheOtherHorseman


Where shall wisdom be found?

Patron
Support Leader
Reply
Quote: from Darkane at 10:41 am on June 16, 2008

Well, nearly:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece

Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.


This has nothing to do with ants.

-------
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"


11:03 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: June 2003 | Days Active: 1,739
Join to learn more about TheOtherHorseman Pennsylvania, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 15,323 | Points: 43,461
( Darkane )


Guru

Patron
Tech Support Leader
Reply
Quote: from TheOtherHorseman at 7:03 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from Darkane at 10:41 am on June 16, 2008

Well, nearly:  
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece  

 Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.


This has nothing to do with ants.


Sorry, the bugs are ants. I read it elsewhere.

-------
last.fm


11:07 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: Aug. 2007 | Days Active: 723
Join to learn more about Darkane Ireland | Straight Male | Posts: 10,707 | Points: 21,843
TheOtherHorseman


Where shall wisdom be found?

Patron
Support Leader
Reply
Quote: from Darkane at 2:07 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from TheOtherHorseman at 7:03 pm on June 16, 2008

Quote: from Darkane at 10:41 am on June 16, 2008

Well, nearly:  
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece  

  Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.


 

 This has nothing to do with ants.


Sorry, the bugs are ants. I read it elsewhere.


The bugs are single celled lifeforms. The only time ants are mentioned is when it is explained that the little buggers are "each a fraction of a billionth the size of an ant."

-------
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"


11:47 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: June 2003 | Days Active: 1,739
Join to learn more about TheOtherHorseman Pennsylvania, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 15,323 | Points: 43,461
iconoclast

corporate drone

Patron
Reply
oh this is way old then

-------
join this group only if youre a mod

11:51 am on June 16, 2008 | Joined: April 2005 | Days Active: 792
Join to learn more about iconoclast New Jersey, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 37,384 | Points: 48,675
Bobman21


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
yea... nothing to do with ants.

anyway, i'm a biotech major with a specific interest in green fuels.  here's some food for thought:

a genetically modified organism that feeds on cellulose and lignin (major structural components of wood) would, obviously, be able to degrade woodchips and other wood/straw products as mentioned in the article.  Suppose a single 'bug' is released to the environment... say... by a lazy or clumsy technician operating the fermentation vats.  Such a bug, invisible to the naked eye, would have essentially free reign on the entirety of civilization: most of our homes are built of wood, anyhow.  Not to mention crop and forest devastation.  Such an organism would have no competition since lignin can currently only be degraded by a select few number of organisms which do it rather slowly.  How would you stop such a problem?  Spray the entire world with antibiotic?  I dont think so...

-------
As I walk through the valley of death, I fear no one, for I am the meanest mother fu*ker in the valley. -Gen. Patton


8:27 pm on June 26, 2008 | Joined: Oct. 2002 | Days Active: 552
Join to learn more about Bobman21 Canada | Male | Posts: 890 | Points: 6,530
Single page for this topic Email Print Favorite

Quick Reply

You are signed in as our guest.

Looking for something else?
 

  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Science & Business / Viewing Topic