Are bacterias going to save humanity?

The amazing adaptive ability of such microorganisms as bacterias and viruses was very often the real curse of humanity. Vaccines and other forms of healing seem to be unable to follow these still mutating organisms. Sometimes on the other hand the abilities can be quite useful. 

Not quite a long time ago it was proven by a spieces of bacteria living in the waters of Gulf of Mexico. After the oil spill, the services organised by people seemed to loose with sourrounding ecological catastrophy. 

They suprisingly received a help from hydrocarbon-eating bacterias. These microorganisms had changed the oil into much simpler substances like water or carbon dioxide. 

Now the scientists had informed that this process can be turned back and the bacterias can be used in biofuel production. These small creatures are creating ethanol - one of the best alternative fuels which can be used to run human vehicles. If the technology will be succesful it can be a revolution in the whole fuels market. 

Why? 

First of all it is connected with specific characteristics of seaweed, which don't need any special fertillizers. What is more these plantations can become even more useful. As Wynne Perry from Live Science said: "Cultivating seaweed along three percent of the world's coastlines, where kelp already grows, could produce 60 billion gallons of ethanol".

Until today its cultivation was quite difficult due to the fact that the sugars in the seaweed -algynats could not be used in biofuel production on industrial scale. The Berkely University scientists had solved this problem, they mutated E.coli bacteria which can now be able to change these sugars into much useful glucosis.

There is nothing else to do as to hope, that the scientists who claim that we are on the way to a new era, are right. We need to remeber that there are many people who can loose a lot on these solutions.