Sticking it to OPEC
Scientists Find Microbes That Eat Garbage, Excrete Crude Oil
This is probably a few years from being commercially viable or even being real, but this is the right direction for the U.S. to be taking. This is a small part of what we need to be doing to be independent of oil producing countries that are mostly unfriendly if not outright hostile with us, and wouldn't sell us oil if it wasn't for the fact that their tin pot dictator economies would collapse without our money. Anything that takes money away from OPEC I am for.
posted by davis14633 at 11:42
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Microbial technologies that turn sunlight and waste plant material into crude oil or hydrogen are definitely the right direction. They don't interfere with the production of food and they are easily mass produced. When this tech reaches maturity it will most likely be more economical than drilling for oil. Which will in turn make it worth switching to.
Meta materials and advancements in battery technologies may eventually make it a moot point but it will be good while those techs are developed. That's assuming that the microbial tech matures before the purely solar, thermal and vibration recovery tech matures. This is all probably 5 to 10 years out at least but at the rate things are being discovered we can hope it will come faster.
To clarify, the reason I hope it comes is not to help the environment. I don't feel the environment is in any danger from fossil fuels. Especially with the regulations we have on their usage. No, the reason I want it is to attempt to get around the enviro-extremists and get back to energy independence and low food/fuel prices.
Or we could just start drilling the trillions of barrels in, on and around our own country. Preferably before China sucks us dry with angle drilling from 13 miles off the coast.
This supply crisis was manufactured in Washington, and it will ultimately have to be fixed in Washington -- one way or another.
And I thought I was the group optimist. I agree with you fully as to what is the best solution. I would love to see Washington fix the problem the right way. My optimism that it will happen is stretched a bit thin however and I'm looking for another path. Therefore, I was just stating in a round about fashion that if we can't go through them, maybe, we can go around them. That may not be any more likely than the better option but it's at least a possible alternative.
It's not that I don't think the economy will cycle. It always does. I admit I'm looking for a quick fix to avoid a few years of eating nothing but company bought oatmeal so I can afford gas. It just chaps me because it should have never come to this. It's a stupid induced situation and it's really irritating. Or to sum it up with a one liner, "Mr. Spock has left the country."
Notice that I added the caveat "one way or another."
There's the easy way, the hard way, and the pitchfork way. It's up to them how they want to handle it, but the problem must be addressed, and it must be done before the economy suffers permanent damage due to their idiocy and greed.
Al Qaeda was aiming for the wrong edifice in Washington. Or maybe not; perhaps they knew taking out the Capitol building would be doing us a favor.
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