petroleum

What if instead of brewing beer you could brew crude oil? A Silicon Valley company is doing just that. Genetically modified microbes feed on renewable sugars and excrete hydrocarbons instead of alcohol. LS9 envisions their products being used directly in

any application where petroleum is required. Advantages to fermented petroleum include the fact that the renewable raw materials grown to feed oil-producing microbes will remove more carbon from the atmosphere than burning the fuels will release. Not only carbon-balanced, the process is economically