Recent content by Julian_West

Did you read the message that you quoted? What you have written is possible, granted, but what I had written is that we have artificially altered these organisms to be worse at survival than their unaltered counterparts (and the most likely mutation to occur is to return them to their unaltered...

I will assume that you are being serious here, as it allows me to talk about scientific literacy; If you're joking or not please don't take this as a personal insult. Disclaimer aside, who here has heard of the laws of thermodynamics? If it's been a while or you just plain did not learn them...

Perhaps a big misconception about many of these biofuel producing organisms is that that they are actually viable in an unregulated environment (ie outside of the lab). There are several reasons why this is not the case, perhaps most important being that biofuels are a waste product. The...

Having worked as a Researcher at the Biorefining Conversions and Fermentations Laboratory at the University of Alberta I would like to point out several flaws with the technology that have not been covered in either this thread nor the sensationalized article: 1) Clostridium is a notoriously...