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- D0P3M4N, on 08/16/2008, -2/+50Aw...I saw self-fermenting and thought the tree made its own whiskey.
- acrodev, on 08/16/2008, -1/+44In other news, forest mysteriously erupts in flames.
- ecaffeine, on 08/16/2008, -1/+23What an emo tree...
- bwdd, on 08/16/2008, -2/+17It feels like everyone in these comments is desperately trying to make a good joke.
- kevlar21, on 08/16/2008, -1/+14cough hemp cough
- CobaltBlue, on 08/16/2008, -2/+15Is that cough caused by too much smoking?
- jcaino, on 08/16/2008, -0/+13Um...isn't wood -already- fuel?
- michigander, on 08/16/2008, -6/+17That doesn't make sense. I thought we were trying to save trees from the effects of the oil industry, not include them in their own demise.
- bullioncube, on 08/16/2008, -0/+11Hooray, another alternative fuel which receives no funding and is never heard from again!
- pdizz, on 08/16/2008, -1/+11Not sure what correlation you're making between the oil industry and the demise of trees (other than pollution I suppose) but reducing our petroleum usage by utilizing bio-fuels will cause a strain on resources such as trees and corn. By burning oil we were able to stop burning wood and coal for energy. We need more truly renewable sources that don't take decades to grow back or tax our food supply.
- brad3378, on 08/16/2008, -0/+9Yes, but liquid fuels are much more convenient to power automobiles than logs.
- Crazy888, on 08/16/2008, -0/+6what about the consequences about this? This isn't going to stop global warming. We need a clean alternative fuel. What happens if the tree grows out of a controlled area, then you have species the can potential harm the environment. We need to think long term about this rather then to be short sighted about the environment.
- funkyloki, on 08/16/2008, -0/+5I guess you weren't aware that, as Rep. Bill Sali (R-Idaho) stated, "Forty percent of the mass of every tree in the forest is crude oil". There's your correlation.
- migshark, on 08/16/2008, -0/+5Breaking: Trees Given Ears To Annihilate That Damn Question.
- handler, on 08/17/2008, -1/+5This is a horribly stupid solution to fueling cars.
- nomadxx7, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3Supposedly someone made a car that ran off wood logs. Had a little stove in the back and used the gas created to power some sort of engine.
- TheMachine1, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3I considered patenting the idea of pressure treating biomass (mostly wood) with a cellulase/hemicellulase solution. But various technical reasons made me think it would not be practical and they apply to this article. The first is the hydrolysis reaction of celluose and hemicelluose consumes water so the biomass would get bone dry. The
hydrolysis reaction would also slow down as the remaining water got more concentrated with sugars. So unless you reduce the biomass to a finely divided state to make it easier to hydrate or continue pressuring treating it with more water over time I see no advantage in having the biomass pre-innocalted with digestive enzymes.
In theory you could dry biomass pressure treat it with enzyme solution and then every few days pressurize it with more water (it will self-dry as explained before) and repeat till it bulks up and breaks in to a brittle mass of fermentable sugars and lignin. - Devrdander, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4You enjoy that wood alcohol, let me know how the blindness, or death even, turns out for ya...
- TheInformer, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3Ted Kennedy self ferments after a night on the town.
- sockpuppets, on 08/17/2008, -2/+5This is better than a girl who buys herself drinks!
- angryfirelord, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3/s
- Veriander, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2I wish all you hand-wringing, science-hating Luddites could live in the past for a few months. Say, Venice in the 1600's or England in the 1700's. Better yet spend 48 hours gathering crops along the Nile four thousand years ago.
No advance comes without cost. As we progress, we try to redress problems and mitigate risks associated with future initiatives.
Running around with your hair on fire screaming, "The sky is falling!!" shows you to be ignorant and/or stupid.
Why not try a new approach? Express your concerns in a thoughtful, cogent manner? Maybe the Digg Intellectual Quotient would go up a point our two. Maybe someone would take your comment seriously. Maybe you could actually influence someone's opinion.
If this has hit too close to home, please feel free to Digg me down and sling epitaphs... - MrColdheart, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2I reeeally dont think they should start manipulating plants and trees to dissolve, they should make them breath more carbon and grow faster as well.
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2This is how the Crappening started.
- Virgule, on 08/17/2008, -1/+3Genetics is God's very playground. I pity the fools who engage in such endeavors.
- aComa, on 08/17/2008, -2/+4These genetic engineers are barking up the wrong tree
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- shagg187, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2Genetically different, baby!
- slinkyf0x, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2soon there will be no need for the arab countries :3
- theguesser10, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2Except that trees take a long time to grow. A reeeally long time
- MikeKM, on 08/17/2008, -1/+2Does anyone else see the potential for disaster if this fungus were to leap from a controlled area (as Crazy888 stated above) to an uncontrolled wild/natural area and even jump plant species? Think SIV/Aids, Bird flu, etc. Yes this is a fungus and not a virus and my background isn't in biology, but the potential for disaster seems higher than the actual benefit.
Here's an example of a killer fungus taking its toll on rice crops:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/mar/23/food ... - Telmarine, on 08/17/2008, -3/+4ITS THE SAME QUESTION THAT I ASKED, IF YOU SEE AN ENDANGERED ANIMAL EATING AN ENDANGERED PLANT, WTF DO U DO?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Abram730, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Been there done that, but good instincts DeFex.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/ls9-pr ... - MasterThief117, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1SCIENCE!
- PhYk3n, on 08/17/2008, -1/+2oh for sure, but ive one to many horror movies to trust out government, canadian, american or anyone if that, with the powers to play "god". sure, fruits and vegetables are one thing, but what will it take for one day for someone to say, "if a carrot can can survive nuclear blast because of this, why not make super humans for use for war" one thing leads to another then we will destroy ourselves.
- Nicoon, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1My exact first thought.
- DDDavinnn, on 08/17/2008, -2/+3This makes me nervous.
- m0laria, on 08/17/2008, -1/+2This guy suggested putting termite genes into the tree so it could digest itself? That'd work great, except that cellulose digestion in termites is not done by the termite - it is by a eukaryotic (protist) parasite called Trichonympha.
- goalieguy314, on 08/16/2008, -1/+2A bit sensationalist, but I get your point.
- Dylson, on 08/16/2008, -1/+2http://www.highhatstudios.com/imgs_ext/lolrats/mac ...
- supermanred, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1No kidding.
- GlassAgate, on 08/19/2008, -0/+1Doesn't burning this "wood" release a bunch of captured CO2
into the atmosphere? - DeFex, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1why dont that just genetically engineer microbes which grow really fast to break down in to oil. maybe they could make them eat plastic and other unwanted crap as well.
- BizarreNews, on 08/17/2008, -1/+2As opposed to simply drying out and becoming a more common fuel...
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -1/+2CH3OH≠CH3CH2OH
- MasterThief117, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Uhh, this happens in every digg article. Where have you been?
- Telmarine, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1I KNOW RITE?
- MurphyWatson, on 08/17/2008, -1/+2What if this tree killed out all the other trees and we were left with only these ***** selfdecaying trees?
- Overcyn, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1Ever since it wasnt from non-renewable sources or spewing pollutents, damming rivers, etc.
dont be so narrow minded. - supermanred, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1And I'll be sure to quote you when it becomes official that the bees are dying because of genetically modified plants.
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