Fill her up please, and make it myco-diesel

Richard Ingham Yahoo News 4 Nov 08; PARIS (AFP) – A reddish microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rainforests of northern Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists. Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the term "myco-diesel" -- a derivation of the word for fungus -- to describe the bouquet of hydrocarbons that it breathes. "This is the only organism that has ever been shown to produce such an important combination of fu