With the increasing demands for fuels across the world, scientists are up with their gloves finding ways to expand lives of fuel reserves, beside alternative sources of energies. It is to the extent that scientists are banking on manipulating microbes to help find a solution.
Scientists think that manipulating microbes can help expand the life of coal-bed methane wells in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming naturally. Microscopic bacteria naturally create methane breaking down organic materials. And these microbes or ‘bugs’ from a coal-bed methane well can be used to produce the natural gas faster and for an extended period.
