Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory
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Another step closer to explaining how 'life' is formed.
Now to find out how simple amino acids form RNA, a simple membrane to house the single cell and make DNA.
SciphonicStranger
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Learning about evolution is great, but if these eggheads can figure out how to create organisms that can cheaply produce ethanol and get us off of fossil fuels it is time to start handing out the Nobel prizes.
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Learning about evolution is great, but if these eggheads can figure out how to create organisms that can cheaply produce ethanol and get us off of fossil fuels it is time to start handing out the Nobel prizes.
Raw algae can be converted into a crude oil that can be processed at existing petroleum refineries before distribution as a substitute for gasoline and other processed fuels, new research has found. http://www.upi.com/Business_News/En...o-produce-algae-crude-oil/UPI-61091326752182/
Bluce Ree
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Learning about evolution is great, but if these eggheads can figure out how to create organisms that can cheaply produce ethanol and get us off of fossil fuels it is time to start handing out the Nobel prizes.
Hydrogen fuel. It will kill the car parts market and make cars with fewer moving parts, which are at the four wheels. The byproduct is water and hydrogen fuel stations are able to separate hydrogen from water on site, eliminating transport. The only problem with hydrogen fuel is that Exxon Mobile can't profit from it directly.
SciphonicStranger
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With the profits they are currently reaping, oil companies would be hurting themselves by not getting into alternative fuel sources for the future. I'm a little leery of hydrogen as I don't want my vehicle to do this.
Bluce Ree
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With the profits they are currently reaping, oil companies would be hurting themselves by not getting into alternative fuel sources for the future. I'm a little leery of hydrogen as I don't want my vehicle to do this.
Yeah, dude, it doesn't quite work like that.
Honda has hydrogen fuel cell cars being tested in California. In Europe, the Scandinavians have the hydrogen highway with hydrogen fuel stations spread throughout.
When your car is parked at home, the fuel cell can be used to power your house. Your car essentially becomes a power source. Hydrogen also produces 3 times more energy than gasoline pound for pound. Typical hydrogen car design has the entire bottom of the car as one huge hydrogen tank. Don't worry, it won't explode.
shavedape
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With the profits they are currently reaping, oil companies would be hurting themselves by not getting into alternative fuel sources for the future. I'm a little leery of hydrogen as I don't want my vehicle to do this.
Don't you want to out in a blaze of glory? Remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.
SciphonicStranger
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Don't you want to out in a blaze of glory? Remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.
I figure someday I will go out in a blaze of glory Rambo style somewhere in the Netherlands. Of course that may just mean that I crashed my hydrogen powered vehicle into someone's windmill.
Don't you want to out in a blaze of glory? Remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.
Bluce is correct here - the Hindenberg was a unique situation with a combination of hydrogen, an outer coating that contained some aluminum and thermite, diesel fuel and lightning. Also wind shear which caused a frame fracture that pierced a hydrogen bag and caused the inner spce to be filled with air and hydrogen. Tragic but also flukey.
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Graybrew1
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They did a Mythbuster's ep on the Hindenberg.
SciphonicStranger
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I missed that - what did they learn?
Bluce Ree
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Stay away from any blimp called the Hindenburg.
SciphonicStranger
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Noted! I shall stay away from any ships named Titantic too.
But ice comes complementary with everything on the Titanic. ice coffee, ice tea, ice cream
Bluce Ree
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But ice comes complementary with everything on the Titanic. ice coffee, ice tea, ice cream
Why is nobody selling iceberg bottled water?
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Graybrew1
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It was all about the chemical interaction and how long it really took for it to go up in smoke.
OMG, this is SO COOL.
The danger in this type of experimentation is that the search for the "ultimate life form" could mean the end of all others. An uber-successful organism like that would be able to out reproduce, out consume, out defend and outgrow all others. 
. I love the experiment because it reveals the real life example of how multicellular organisms evolve. But the real excitement will come when the raw DNA molecule can be tweaked by using a keyboard and monitor. The same molecule that makes humans also makes fleas and palm trees.
shavedape
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OMG, this is SO COOL.
I'd just be happy with a multicellular yeast strain that could self-replicate itself into beer -- over and over and over.