Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

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

Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

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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

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

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

 Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

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*cuddles up with Darkane*

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awh

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

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

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

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

  Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

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 *cuddles up with Darkane*

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  awh

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

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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

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

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

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

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

  Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

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  *cuddles up with Darkane*

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  awh  

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

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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

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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

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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

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theres just inertia from many angles


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

Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

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This has nothing to do with ants.

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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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

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

 Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

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This has nothing to do with ants.

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

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

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

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

  Basically, they can make ants excrete crude oil.

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 This has nothing to do with ants.

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

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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."

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

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...

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