Energy abundance?

[Young Master Smeet]

http://theconversation.com/how-we-tricked-e-coli-bacteria-into-making-renewable-propane-31209

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Today, we are a step further towards this goal after engineering the gut bacteria E. coli, most famous for the strain of it that causes food poisoning, to make it generate renewable propane. My colleagues and I detail our work in a study published in the journal Nature Communications.

So, the prospect of clean, transportable energy, that is (less) geographically dependent is on the way: I could imagine that this would best in sunny/equatorial areas, but that it produces gas means it oculd be shipped or piped round the world.  Obviously, in a com[petetive world system, this sort of research is a threat to petro nations, especially Russia (but also Venezuela and Scotland).  This is only at proof of concept stage, but the driver is there to make this research work.

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