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March 26, 2013 (Nation Of Change) -- Meet Klebsiella Planticola, perfectly harmless and abundant in natural form, but after some tinkering by biotech scientists thinking their “invention” would save the world’s problems it very likely could have become the most deadly biological weapon known to man. These little guys belong to a family of enterobacteria, most of them live in places like our guts in a healthy harmony, they live on the digestive systems of plants, the roots.
Normally Klebs P. partially digests incoming nutrients and produces a mildly alcoholic slime of sorts that coats the root system and helps the plants better absorb and use some nutrients, so some scientists a while back,”What if we could bioengineer these things to create alcohol super-efficiently and super strong?” Potentially, they figured, all organic waste could be fed to this bacteria to create super potent high octane ethanol biofuel, fertilizers, grain alcohol that could be used for drinking, cooking, and cleaning, etc., solving so many of the world’s most recognized sustainability issues. This was really, really starting to look like something amazing, so amazing it could have the potential to “Save the World.”
Engineer it they did, the newly invented biotech strain of K. planticola had become the most effective tool for creating alcohol out of decomposing organic matter ever known. As you might expect, the scientists were so excited they were announcing their creation to the world’s scientific community as the answer to our problems, ready to release it as the U.S. EPA had approved it for field testing since there were no environmental toxins present in the resultant pure ethanol and mineral end product. Fortunately for us, Dr. Elaine Ingham of Oregon State University had our back and used some critical thinking. She chose to hold off the field testing so that she could do a fully controlled and enclosed test herself on wheat growing in containers.
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