> An adult man's hand weighs about a pound.[7] The hand isn't the fattiest part of the body, but if burned completely, it would probably give off about 500 watt-hours of energy, give or take. That's 50 times the energy content of the phone battery, and almost 10 times that of the Zippo. It's also about as much as a car battery.
Those all burn, but if you could extract them and separate out the rest of the materials, you could use those for other purposes and get a cleaner fuel
Alternatively the bacteria could complete cellular respiration and completely decompose the limbs, then use their excess energy to generate hydrocarbon fuels
It's renewable, but lets us keep our existing fossil fuel infrastructure
Actually no, I'd imagine the ratio of C to H is probably fine in a human
And some variation is fine since different hydrocarbons have different ratios
But yeah apparently bacterial synthesis of petroleum is a thing
We have decomposers. We have hydrocarbon synthesizers. We just need to unite them and we can finally achieve the dream of turning fossil fuel billionaires into fossil fuel.
