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Engineers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced that they have created a process that takes an enriched stew of algae and turns it into crude oil in minutes -- rather than millions of years. In a press release, PNNL stated, "In the PNNL process, a slurry of wet algae is pumped into the front end of a chemical reactor. Once the system is up and running, out comes crude oil in less than an hour, along with water and a byproduct stream of material containing phosphorus that can be recycled to grow more algae."
http://www.drudge.com/news/174952/scientists-turn-algae-into-biofuel-minutes
Exxon-Mobil probably won't be liking this.
http://www.drudge.com/news/174952/scientists-turn-algae-into-biofuel-minutes
Exxon-Mobil probably won't be liking this.
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