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Gliocladium roseum converts cellulose to hydrocarbons

sparkgap - 4-11-2008 at 16:26

http://plantsciences.montana.edu/facultyorstaff/faculty/stro...

From the Wired summary:

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...beyond the biofuel implications, Strobel said that because the fungus can manufacture what we would normally think of as components of crude oil, it casts some doubt on the idea that crude oil is a fossil fuel.

"It may be the case that organisms like this produced some — maybe not all — but some of the world's crude."...


Very interesting! Let's see how this develops...

sparky (~_~)