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<a href="http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9025125&contentId=7047804" rel="nofollow">British Petroleum</a> is working with <a href="http://www.syntheticgenomics.com/what/hydrocarbonrecovery.html" rel="nofollow">Synthetic Genomics</a> to convert coal directly to methane (the cleanest burning of the fossil fuels) without ever digging the coal out of the ground.

A population of microbes can strip electrons from the coal and do the bioconversion deep underground, without any sunlight, air or thermal flux.

Here in the La Jolla labs, you see various columns of coal and microbial consortia under testing for their conversion capabilities. The natural gas bubbles into the plastic bags.

To gather the microbial consortia, they drilled into a pocket of water trapped in a coal seam. It was rich with life, with 200 species living off each other and happily eating coal a mile underground, with no light or contact with the world. From carbon dating, they concluded that this genetic time capsule has evolved in isolation for 135 million years.

P.S. <a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/church_venter09/church_venter09_index.html" rel="nofollow">EDGE</a> has recently put 6 hours of HD video on synthetic biology online. The last two lectures seem the most forward looking. Topics: “What is life, origins of life, in vitro synthetic life, mirror-life, metabolic engineering for hydrocarbons & pharmaceuticals, computational tools, electronic-biological interfaces, nanotech-molecular-manufacturing, biosensors, accelerated lab evolution, engineered personal stem cells, multi-virus-resistant cells, humanized-mice, bringing back extinct species, safety/security policy.”
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Author Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA

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