Friday, December 14, 2007

Fertilized Microbes Make Natural Gas Fast, Study Says

Fertilized Microbes Make Natural Gas Fast, Study Says: "A vast new energy supply could be generated simply by feeding fertilizer to deep-dwelling microbes that create the key ingredient of natural gas as they live off harder-to-tap deposits in older oil fields, new research suggests.

Canadian and English researchers were able to convert heavy oil into usable methane in small glass tubes in a mere two years of lab research—instead of the tens of thousands of years the process can take on its own."

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