Has anyone here heard of this?

Question

With gas prices going up everyday, you'd think that any word of relief would be spread as widely as possible, but that's just not the case. The following article was printed in the Tifton Gazette in Tifton, Georgia back in March of this year. Although the Tifton Gazette is a member of the Associated Press, no other papers picked up the article and ran it. Please, go there now and read it.

http://www.tiftongazette.com/archivesearch/local_story_075215425.html

Answer 1

Sure I've heard of it, but I listen to NPR and then read up on some of the things they talk about. This is what some of us were saying should have gotten the huge amounts of federal funding (instead of promoting ethanol from corn) several years back. NPR had Amyris Biotechnologies on for an interview a couple of weeks ago. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...

It's a potential solution some time down the road, but there is a long, long way to go before it can come close to easing the demand for fossil fuels.

Answer 2

I remember the media hype when some scientists said that they had discovered a "cold fusion" process. We will have to wait this out and see what comes of it.

With oil prices so high now, there will be a lot of research done on alternative fuels. In the past there was so much opposition from the powerful conventional energy businesses (lobbyists) that not much was done, but now things seem to be changing.

There will be hundreds of these types of articles in the coming years and eventually solutions will be found. But this product is still hydrocarbon a based energy source which will not be useful in the long term due to greenhouse emissions it will produce.

Answer 3

This isn't really new. Its just not broadly covered.

Biofuels are being talked about a lot these days and one day they might be what we turn to, but right now they are not as cost effective as traditional petroleum.

Answer 4

Cool!!