Bio fuel from a rainforest fungus


	Bio fuel from a rainforest fungus

Yafi07

11-5-2008 7:12 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bc9e9628-c3b5-4fa5-9f76-1d57a57b4e3e/7990E38D-6942-4607-8F8D-29D6170F5BA7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2286/rainforest-fungus-gives-biodiesel" href="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2286/rainforest-fungus-gives-biodiesel" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cosmosmagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2286/rainforest-fungus-gives-biodiesel"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cosmosmagazine.com/img/E1E2733F-013B-4F99-961B-987E39B89EB7" alt="Gliocladium roseum" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2286/rainforest-fungus-gives-biodiesel"><P>PARIS: A reddish microbe discovered at a secret location in the rainforests of northern Patagonia has been found to expel hydrocarbon gas, with promise as a new source of biofuel.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2286/rainforest-fungus-gives-biodiesel"><P>Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the term "myco-diesel" - a derivation of the word for fungus - to describe the various hydrocarbons that it produces as a gas.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2286/rainforest-fungus-gives-biodiesel"><P>"The fungus can even make these diesel compounds from cellulose, which would make it a better source of biofuel that anything we use at the moment," he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2286/rainforest-fungus-gives-biodiesel"><P>Strobel, a 70-year-old veteran of the world's rainforests, said that he came across the fungus, called <I>Gliocladium roseum</I> thanks to "two cases of serendipity." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2286/rainforest-fungus-gives-biodiesel"><P>The first lucky break happened in the late 1990s, when Strobel's team, working in Honduras, came across a previously unidentified fungus called <I>Muscodor albus</I>. By sheer accident, they found that <I>M. Albus</I> releases a powerful, volatile (meaning it readily evaporates into a gas) antibiotic which kills other fungi.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7990E38D-6942-4607-8F8D-29D6170F5BA7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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