Re: on the intarwebnet

pete wrote:
on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:04:22 GMT, Bill Ward <bwardREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sez:
` On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:03:17 -0700, Mike McWilliams
` <michael.mcwilliamss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

` >http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70273-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
` >
` <snip very interesting quote>
` >
` >I figured it was hydrogen related so I would post it. I am quite excited ` >that venter is working on the project. That guy is a fricken genius, he ` >basically forced the development of highthroughput sequencing, and ` >informatic software in a totally fantastic way. He has his fingers in ` >many pies now, and they probably won't be hurt by it. He is good at ` >leaving things that don't work, and finding things that do.

` Good news indeed. Now if some clever bioengineer can design
` a marine alga that secretes a harvestable lipid, we're
` (well. somebody's) in business.

` I think bioengineering is the key to solving a whole bunch
` of problems. They just need some good cheerleaders.

And then the algae escape the lab and begin thriving in every body
of water on the planet, decomposing water everywhere and fermenting
an explosive atmosphere... (^:

I don't honestly think that H2 producing algae are going to be important, but the modifications to the chloroplast they were talking about will improve the oil producing algae positively.
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