-- Posted by 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. -- Posted by snowcone200 at 7:41 am 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* -- Posted by Byble at 7:42 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 -- Posted by Darkane at 7:44 am 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. -- Posted by Byble at 7:49 am 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 -- Posted by Darkane at 7:51 am on June 16, 2008 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 -- Posted by Bonolove at 7:58 am on June 16, 2008 that's cucking fool!! -- Posted by iconoclast at 9:50 am on June 16, 2008 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 -- Posted by TheOtherHorseman at 11:03 am 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. -- Posted by Darkane at 11:07 am 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. -- Posted by TheOtherHorseman at 11:47 am on June 16, 2008 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." -- Posted by iconoclast at 11:51 am on June 16, 2008 oh this is way old then -- Posted by Bobman21 at 8:27 pm on June 26, 2008 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...