CO2 causes no more Global Warming... yes this would be the news if the scientists of UCLA ( university of california los angeles) are 100% succesfull in their study of doing the unimaginable.
These scientists have modified a cyanobacterium ( class of bacteria) to produce liquid fuel isobutanol out of CO2. Could be used as vehicular fuel.
Using the cyanobacterium, researchers genetically increased the quantity of CO2 fixing enzyme RuBisCO. Then they spliced genes from other bugs to engineer a strain that takes in CO2 and sunlight (through photosynthesis) to produce isobutyraldehyde gas.
The low boiling point and high vapour pressure of the gas allows it to be easily stripped from the system. The engineered bacteria can produce isobutanol directly, said an UCLA release.
This as said if done in mass quantities, can save earth from fuel crysis and global warming. Just think of such an effective way to recycle the carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere.
If they overcome the obstacles like the rate and yield of production, efficiency of light distribution and reduction of bioreactor cost, CO2 could be boon to man-kind.
(But eventually next problem would arise. The excess conversion of CO2 makes CO2 less in atmosphere and causes the death of plants :-)... see i fore-saw )
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