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Man-made oil is made from renewable plant
sources and bacteria.
It's cheaper and more efficient than ethanol.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
WILL SAVE US
Man-made oil will
change the entire
world of energy
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Man-made Oil and Gasoline
While Ethanol (E85) is the fastest route to jump-starting our independence from foreign and Middle East petroleum-based oil, the cutting-edge technology and our best hope for rapid oil independence is probably going to be man-made oil.
What if we could make our own oil?
The advantage of man-made oil and gasoline over ethanols, and other alcohols made from plant masses, is that man-made oil could be used directly in our massive oil-based infrastructure (pipelines, refineries, fueling stations, and the engines in our vehicles). All theoretically without any changes to it.
This is a big deal because changing that infrastructure costs an enormous amount of money and takes a lot of time.
There are a few very creative and ingenious scientists who are making man-made oil and gasoline right now. It's not yet ready for public use but could be by around 2010-2015 which isn't far away at all.
Best of all is that man-made oil is probably our best route to independence from foreign oil and has the potential to do so very quickly.
Who's Creating Man-made Oil?
The scientists and entrepreneurs who are creating man-made oil (synthetic oil) come from the professions of synthetic biology, biotechnology and synthetic genomics.
While many of these folks have a bad name for trying to create synthetic life forms and genetically altered foods, their work in the area of man-made oil is definitely pro-survival for mankind and will probably change the entire world of energy economics and politics to our benefit.
Here is the very brief explanation of how it's done:
Man-made oil is created by genetically altering certain bacteria which "eat" renewable plant masses and excrete oil. That excreted oil is the chemical equivalent of the petroleum based oil we now use in our cars.
This man-made oil has been created. It's not a theory anymore, it has been done. These clever folks are now at work building large facilities to create mass quantities of man-made oil that will replace the oil we now import from foreign sources.
The projections are that this oil will be much cheaper than ethanol and petroleum-based fuels.