16 year old discovers bacteria eating plastic: Potential new energy source?

That is pretty cool. I don't know about the heat aspect of getting enough energy but just from an environmental point of not having plastic around forever that would be great. Well except for all the extra CO2 that will now be emitted and further increase global warming!! ;)

Better jsut hope that some other HS student doe not come along with a glass full of that plastic eating bacteria and throw it on your new Cirrus!!
 
um, wouldn't that be "plastic-eating bacteria"? Or else that's some scary dang plastic! :eek:
 
I always cringe when I see a "scientific breakthrough" published in the news prior to it showing up in a peer reviewed technical journal. More often than not there's more BS than fact. I don't know if that's' the case here but I'm not looking to invest in the scheme just yet.
 
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