Genetically modified bacteria that make diesel fuel

An article from Fast Company that offers a productive little bacterium as a potential solution to the world's limited petroleum resource. However, it doesn't even mention the continued problems from released carbon that we would face if we just replaced one source of oil with another, albeit renewable, one. However, the fuel has 50% more energy than ethanol, doesn't take much energy to refine or process, and would use much less land to produce than corn or soy biofuel crops...

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