On Biofuels

Someone's taken the obvious next step in biofuels: genetically engineering a bacterium that photosynthesises fuel.

If this is true and there's no problems about to crop up with this, then it's curtains for foodstock-derived biofuels (and about time, too; it sucks that poor countries can't get enough food because rich westerners want to assuage their enviro-guilt). The hydrogen fuel economy just got a lot less necessary, too; although, one day, our species' fuel requirements will exceed what's possible to easily photosynthesise, and then supplements will be needful.

On the downside: cheap petrol forevermore, no peak oil crisis if this works. Which means no car-free streets. Meh.