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Newspapers to Fuel Cars

Posted August 30, 2011 8:04 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

Recycling the newspaper could power your car. Tulane University scientists discovered a strain of clostridia bacteria, dubbed "TU-103," that can devour old newspapers to produce butanol, a substitute for gasoline.

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08/30/2011 11:22 AM

So all that printed dribble will actually be used for something meaningful. Cool.

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08/30/2011 9:39 PM

Sounds great!

Bet we never hear about it again.

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08/31/2011 4:22 AM

Tenders are now being invited for a junk-mail conversion facility....

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09/05/2011 3:34 PM

Imagine! An airplane that is fueled by its own paperwork!

snort...I suspect there would be plenty left over even so.

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