Roche Madden, KTVI Fox 2 News
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI)– The future is being developed right now in St. Louis.
They're searching for a breakthrough in a Washington University laboratory.
“Washington University researcher says: when our technology becomes mature is has the potential to change the world,” said Dr. Fuzhong Zhang.
Dr. Fuzhong Zhang and his students are trying to make gasoline from this: E. Coli. The same bacteria that`s found in a person`s intestines and could make a person sick may one day fuel a car. He received an $860,000 government award to make it happen.
“In the long run it will be less expensive,” stated Dr. Zhang.
Zhang`s research money came from DARPA, a part of the Department of Defense. The Pentagon budget's is more than half a trillion dollars. Three billion dollars is spent by DARPA , the Defense Advance Research Project Agency.
“I think our research is going to be a huge benefit to everybody,” said Wash. U. student Gayle Bentley."
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