Environment
There will be gas: microbes that gobble up heavy oil and spit out natural gas
By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Ellen Horne
May 06, 2008, 06:18 AM
This summer, British and Canadian researchers plan to test new technology for releasing previously unrecoverable energy trapped in heavy oil deposits. It works by stimulating tiny microbes to chew up the sticky, tar-like heavy oil and metabolize it into natural gas.
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