{"id":185,"date":"2008-06-18T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-06-18T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T17:33:03","slug":"scientists-find-bugs-that-eat-waste-and-excrete-petrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/scientists-find-bugs-that-eat-waste-and-excrete-petrol","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete Petrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTen years ago I could never have imagined I\u2019d be doing this,\u201d says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. \u201cI mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to \u2013 especially the ones coming out of business school \u2013 this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs \u2013 very, very small ones \u2013 so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article4133668.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest at Times Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTen years ago I could never have imagined I\u2019d be doing this,\u201d says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. \u201cI mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to \u2013 especially the ones coming out of business school \u2013 this is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}