Comments on: It grows faster than we could burn it http://commercialappeal-web.com/blake/2008/06/23/it-grows-faster-than-we-could-burn-it/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:36:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Philliproy http://commercialappeal-web.com/blake/2008/06/23/it-grows-faster-than-we-could-burn-it/#comment-1623 Philliproy Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:23:10 +0000 http://commercialappeal-web.com/blake/2008/06/23/it-grows-faster-than-we-could-burn-it/#comment-1623 Kudzu is the plant that grows 12 inches in one day. So, it is really not a surprise that kudzu may save the world. I nominate kudzu for the Nobel Peace Prize. I also nominate the bug that secretes crude oil for the Nobel Peace Prize. "Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture",... the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.” Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece Kudzu is the plant that grows 12 inches in one day. So, it is really not a surprise that kudzu may save the world.

I nominate kudzu for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I also nominate the bug that secretes crude oil for the Nobel Peace Prize.

“Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture”,… the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.”
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece

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