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What does it excrete? I’m curious.
Edit: The bacterium will eventually convert the plastic into carbon dioxide and water. That’s both expected and somewhat disappointing.
You'd prefer they excreted gasoline and matches?
what the plastic is made of. so any molecule that contains C, H (and atoms like O and S F or N depending on the type of plastic) can be synthesized by plastic eating bacteria. so we can also make oil and fuel from it
The article states it’s ingesting Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), (C10H8O4)n
Metabolism is just fire but slower IIRC
Metabolism can definitely create useful products. Alcohol is formed from yeast metabolising sugars, for example. Same with miso paste. Hell, we can make milk without cows now via precise fermantation.
Now that is interesting. From what and how?
Water and evaporated milk
Not sure on what the inputs are, but basically bioreactors that have bacteria that are doing the same processes you'd get milk from otherwise. I've done ice cream and protein powder made from companies that used perfect day foods' reactor milk. Actually was a big fan of the vegan whey protein powder, but that company died at some point
If I ever become a rapper I'll be known as slow fire
That would be a great name for a jazz band, I think
He's not a rapper.
True, but it also depends on the enzymes capabilities to break things down into their smallest components.