Seek and ye shall find

[andygates]

Remember Medicine Man, the iffy Sean Connery rainforest movie?  Ponytailed Sean played a boffin who discovered a unique rainforest flower which contained the cure for cancer.  The Evil Developers wanted to clearcut the area, and thus the movie played out: destroy not the wilderness, for it contains wondrous things.  Cheesy, but I kinda liked it.

Well, screw cancer, nobody gives a damn about that.  What we're worried about these days is sweet sweet fuel, and hey, it looks like they've found a cure for that: a fungus that eats cellulose and craps diesel.  Watch for a dozen biotech startups scrambling to deconstruct little old Gliocladium roseum and get it's interesting bits in a big enzyme reactor. 

And a sequel to Medicine Man?  Who knows? 

Comments

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. I find it hard to be enthusiastic about a technique for converting any cellulose to fuel.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Think of it as methadone for an oil addiction, perhaps?

[simoneck.livejournal.com]

I like that analogy