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It would be interesting to see if this is viable as a food source for genetically modified bacteria to convert into biofuel.


The article describes that it already gets converted by non-engineered bacteria into a biofuel - called methane. it's just that building processing tanks and methane capture equipment is expensive. Not like nuclear power plan expensive, but a million bucks is a lot of capital investment for a farmer - note that some farmers already do this to process animal manure.




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