Tinkering with the design of nature and adding some clever accessories inside tiny little organisms might not be the brightest idea if you watched those countless Hollywood flicks where genetic engineering (eccentric mad-scientist styled stuff) goes horribly wrong.

But then this is real life and with the very real and growing demand for cleaner and more energy efficient fuel growing by the second, Joule Biotechnologies decided to fiddle with the genetics of tiny little algae to create a biofuel that will be effectively ‘carbon-neutral’. These genetically modified organisms use photosynthesis to directly create the molecules that form the basis of diesel; in other words they convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into fuel!

The advantage of the technology lies in the fact that the biofuel that is produced in this unique fashion will in turn release less amount of carbon dioxide when it burns, making the entire process effectively carbon-neutral. Joule Biotechnology plans to build farms of these modified organisms that are suspended in a solution and placed directly under sunlight.

So, unlike in the case of other biofuel sources, no irrigation land is wasted and food crops do not take a beating with this brand new technology. Just place them out in the vast desert wastelands and you could be milking fuel all day long… Of course, this now means that the US can now invade the Middle East for the desert land as much as for the oil wells!

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