Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished
Wild Card's progress: Fully-fledged
The source of this Wild Card:
Scientific American. December 2010. 10 World Changing Ideas.
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2015
Wild Card's description:
It is going to be possible to change our waste management by modified microbes which eat waste and “secrete” fuel. Our future may be changed by genetically modified fuel factories, which are fed with the sun energy.