synthetic microbes Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:11:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Could Synthetic Microbes Clean up the Environment? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/could-synthetic-microbes-clean-up-the-environment-20121009/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/could-synthetic-microbes-clean-up-the-environment-20121009/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:09:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26563 Natural resources are not always renewable, petroleum for example. Raw petroleum can be refined into at least twenty different commodities, including gasoline, diesel fuel, paraffin, sulfur, propane, and petrochemicals, which are further refined to produce commodities such as polyester, polyethylene, and polyvinyl chloride, among others. The chemical industry, in light of depleting natural resources, needs […]

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