Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol[views:2612][posts:37]_______________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 10:32am - the_reverend ""] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece I theorize that this is the last time you hear about this. except that article on page 14 about a scientist on vacation in utah disappearing with his family. |
| _______________________________ [Jun 16,2008 10:33am - Yeti ""] those bugs have some really bad gas. *cough* |
| _________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:07am - xmikex ""] ya, prediction: This will go ignored by the government, and the American public. Gas prices will be so expensive that 50% of our income will be wasted just buying gas. Everyone will shrug and say "Ya but what are you gonna do?" |
| ___________________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:17am - largefreakatzero ""] Yeah, strange -- it's a US story only picked up by a UK paper? I think Mr. Pal will disappear very, very soon. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:19am - aril ""] NatioanlGeographic will press this I bet - they'll make it a federal case. There are some companies / organizations which will push the gov't to do things. Lets hope our next president (whomever he may be) is more OPEN to stuff like this. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:23am - immortal13 ""] Yeah but then we'll have the whole global warming controversy get even worse. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:26am - aril ""] I don't know but I was listening to this early 90s Swedish death metal band called Suffer and they had an EP called Global Warming and it pwns. |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:39am - the_reverend ""] I don't see how the global warming issue will get worse... you are turning stuff that is left over waste into oil. this is the stuff that fills land fills, pollutes our water, clogs our rivers. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:46am - dertoxia ""] the only reason i can see that the US gov't wouldn't be interested in this is that it pretty much invalidates us having troops in the middle east. If we could produce our own oil here domestically in the volume that we need then there would be no need for OPEC oil. The only problem there is i think we're the number one consumer of middle east oil unless China has overtaken us. So if we stop buying their oil then their economy's will probably crumble. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:52am - immortal13 ""] Because half of the people arguing about global warming blame it on large V8 engines, mid sized V6 engines, diesels, and anything that puts out less than 67457984023 mpg, most of which being the kind of cars/trucks I'm into. Basically, everyone's starting to go green and get hybrids and electric cars and for them there's no turning back now. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 11:53am - aril ""] "I wish the industrial revolution never happened." |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:00pm - dertoxia ""] well from what i've been reading, greenhouse gases from cars is not nearly as big of a problem as we've been mislead to believe. if you think about it. the earth is fucking huge. we must be pretty egotistical to thing that we can do anything short of nuking the planet to change shit. we just dont have that much of an impact on the planet as we think we do. definately local environmental stuff like recycling and pollution regulation is of course super important but on a global scale......cmon we just don't matter that much. so to me the problem with big v8's and gas guzzlers isn't an environmental problem with them pollution...it's just that they're sucking down gas that we just don't have enough of. if these bug shits can be figured out then we might not have that problem. |
| _________________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:01pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] dertoxia said:well from what i've been reading, greenhouse gases from cars is not nearly as big of a problem as we've been mislead to believe. if you think about it. the earth is fucking huge. we must be pretty egotistical to thing that we can do anything short of nuking the planet to change shit. we just dont have that much of an impact on the planet as we think we do. That makes so much no sense. Sounds like some EXTREMELY wishful thinking. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:09pm - dertoxia ""] i just fail to see how we matter on a global scale when entire cities can be wiped out in a matter of hours from a hurricane or tornado or wildfire or what have you. ya i agree that if we don't watch ourselves then we can definitely destroy the planet beyond repair. but i just don't think we're really as important on an ecological level as we think we are. |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:12pm - the_reverend ""] immortal13: that argument is like saying to a guy that lives off eating his own feces "there's too much poop around here" cause no there isn't, he eats it all. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:18pm - dertoxia ""] best analogy ever |
| _______________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:20pm - Mess ""] [img] |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:23pm - immortal13 ""] I suppose. Plus, if you think about it...gas engines emit carbon from the exhuast, which is one plants need to breathe, so the amount of plants and trees and shit around the world has grown pretty significantly more than anything. I'm just talking about those shitheads that wanna feel like they're doing something important (not directed at you Rev, because I know you're not one of them hybrid drivers that think they're top shit). |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:25pm - dertoxia ""] yeah plants breath C02 but humans die from it |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:29pm - immortal13 ""] Yes, but that's exactly what I mean. We inhale O2 and exhale CO2, while the plants do the opposite, giving us the O2 we need to survive and getting rid of most of the harmful CO2. It's a cycle my friend. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:29pm - xmikex ""] I just made a myspace bulletin about it. I think it's this sort of grass roots awareness that will propel this idea into.... *sigh* into inevitable obscurity when it is completely ignored by a bunch of self absorbed assholes with the intellect of 12 year old girls. |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:32pm - the_reverend ""] we exhale O2 and CO2. plants actually would "breathe" CO2 as well. they just produce more 02 from sugar synthesis than they burn. |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:34pm - the_reverend ""] it's called the kreb cycle, look it up! [img] |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:35pm - immortal13 ""] That too. I'm not that great at science so I'm going by what the kids who did decent in high school gave me for answers on the homework that was about 3 months late. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:37pm - immortal13 ""] I'd rather just rebuild a small block and put it in my truck. |
| _______________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:42pm - Yeti ""] global warming is caused by cows, which is why vegitarians are more to blame than anyone. |
| _______________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:56pm - Mess ""] the rev is teh rev |
| __________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 12:59pm - sxealex ""] dertoxia said:yeah plants breath C02 but humans die from it no we dont die from it. we just cant use it. everyone read wikipedia on global warming this shit solves the co2 problem but its mostly unrelated to global warming. how it solves it: plants use co2, cars make co2... the amount of co2 the plants use in this process is more than the amount the fuel creates. immortal : the whole big engine thing is that old cars do not burn as efficiently as new cars... so you get things like co, and carbon in the air. they put more hydrogen atoms in higher octane by mixing in certain chemicals to make it burn slower and more thoroughly. as in it wont detonate quicker when its not meant to. it makes the engine run cooler contrary to popular thought and has less waste. so if your running your skylark throw in some premium and itll run cooler and cleaner and more expensive for those chemicals. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 1:01pm - sxealex ""] someone download the article and keep it incase it goes away. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 1:16pm - immortal13 ""] I don't trust wikipedia at all, considering anyone can edit the entries on there. |
| _______________________________ [Jun 16,2008 1:24pm - Murph ""] Meh, the term global warming sucks. In some places we are cooling, in some warming, its more like global instability. The major thing I am afraid about, as paranoid as it sounds because it could never happen in my lifetime, is that ou forestation could become so depleted that the amount of oxygen in the air could decrease so much creating new life forms who imbibe whatever else dominates the air's saturation and create new, or not humanly useable byproducts. If this sounds weird, just remember that the earth (as far as science knows now) was most likely a carbon-rich environment, which created primitive plant life, whose byproduct was oxygen, hence allowing organisms such as us and many others to exist. Freaky. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 1:37pm - sxealex ""] immortal13 said:I don't trust wikipedia at all, considering anyone can edit the entries on there. its better than what everyone is reading now ;) |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 3:02pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] I can't wait to tear off one sleeve of my leather jacket and screw around the desert killing mutants for gas and canned goods. |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 3:32pm - the_reverend ""] ONE MAN ENTERS, TWO MEN LEAVE er.. wait a second. |
| _______________________________ [Jun 16,2008 3:40pm - eddie ""] kind of a crazy idea but eventually they could make this so it fits in the back yard, and you could grow your own gas. onlyproblem with this idea is that it would probably kill the market so the company wouldn't do it, unless they charged for distillation, at distillation stations. 50 years from now it will be "i can't believe it cost $4 for distillation per gallon!"(over half that would be taxes) i agree with dertoxia. Humans have always thought they were king shit, the next ice age will have something to say about that. |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 7:45pm - y_ddraig_goch ""] oil is not the problem, it's the car. 3/4s of every dollar in america is spent on cars. That is to say, car repairs, oil, tune-ups, roads, road repairs, bridges, parking lots, car parts, car bills... etc etc. Because of cars we have urban sprawl, because of urban sprawl we have deforestation and air-pollution from vehicles. the answer is centralization of populations and planned cities but that would piss off all the people who want to live in suburbs and own big tracks of land |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 16,2008 7:56pm - DaveFromTheGrave ""] y_ddraig_goch said:oil is not the problem, it's the car. 3/4s of every dollar in america is spent on cars. That is to say, car repairs, oil, tune-ups, roads, road repairs, bridges, parking lots, car parts, car bills... etc etc. Because of cars we have urban sprawl, because of urban sprawl we have deforestation and air-pollution from vehicles. the answer is centralization of populations and planned cities but that would piss off all the people who want to live in suburbs and own big tracks of land Fuck you. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 17,2008 11:26pm - Dankill ""] Put it up there with that scientist that discovered you can use a certain radio wave frequency to make salt water burst into flames. |