Dinosaur Factory
Why can’t a pharmaceutical company create an enzyme to convert waste into gasoline?
I don’t believe oil came from dead dinosaurs. I think it came from the decaying of dead vegetation. If so, why can’t we produce it in the laboratory? Then we could have big factories spewing out the stuff. Energy crisis GONE: Trade deficit GONE: Overpopulation GONE (By not teaching the Chinese and Indians how to drive their new cars, and just turn them loose: That’s how!).
You don’t know much about science, do you? Do you think you can convert anything to anything just by creating the right enzyme?
Think of what such a discovery would be worth to whomever came up with it. Literally hundreds of billions of dollars. Research that valuable is not ignored. It is just something that noone has been able to figure out a way to do.
We can convert starchy and sugary vegetable waste to ethanol and methanol to power cars, but there’s only so much energy available in waste. To use those methods as a primary energy source would be expensive and would require repurposing farmland used to make food and farming it for energy instead. We don’t have enough farmland to grow enough alcohol to keep all of our cars running.
