Oil-eating bacteria make light work of heavy fuel
Date: 16.12.2007
Unpicking the route by which microbes produce methane could help to boost the process.
Researchers have worked out how **natural bacteria** deep within the Earth break down **crude oil** and produce methane. This knowledge could help with projects to encourage these bacteria to covert more oil, faster. And it could point towards a way to produce hydrogen — an even cleaner fuel — by using these natural fuel-processing plants.
"Nature":[ http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071212/full/news.2007.375.html]
