In man’s quest for fuel to run his life more efficiently and conveniently, he has gone through many awkward situations just so he does not run out of it. It’s been a maddening quest all along. This panic over Peak Oil, or the alarmist thought that the earth is nearing the complete exhaustion of oil reserves, has made man turn different ways to look for oil’s replacement. Biofuels came up, but the implication of its widespread production means subtraction from the capacity to produce the likes of grain for human consumption and animal feed. Man just couldn’t have it all!
The latest discovery for fuel may sound funny but it sure does assuage man’s fear over running out of fuel in the future. The biofuel of the future has just been discovered in…well…a fungus! In fact, they have called it “myco-diesel,” as a reference to fungus. It was found inside a tree somewhere in a rain forest in northern Patagonia. This reddish fungal microbe breathes hydrocarbons.
Hydrocarbons abound naturally in crude oil. Or that which Dubai has lots of. Hydrocarbons are the most important energy resource on earth. Its main function is for combustible fuel. The discovery of this microbe that, by all indication, teems in the fungus growth over huge and wide stretches of a rain forest may just be what man needs to augment fuel resources. If this form of fuel can be developed further and at volume capacity, who needs economically blackmailing billionaire Arabs who think that only crude oil can fuel the planet? The rain forest may just be their comeuppance.
