Breakthrough! Scientists create Crude Oil from Algae in Few Minutes
Scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory has discovered something amazing that will change the course of history.
They have devised a way to turn algae into crude oil which can then be refined into gasoline that can run engines, the surprising part is that it will take them less than an hour to do the conversion,
the truth is Algae fuel is not a new idea, but this is the first time they will be doing it effortlessly and much faster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qs0QZJ0rea0
They have devised a way to turn algae into crude oil which can then be refined into gasoline that can run engines, the surprising part is that it will take them less than an hour to do the conversion,
the truth is Algae fuel is not a new idea, but this is the first time they will be doing it effortlessly and much faster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qs0QZJ0rea0
The new process
solves that problem. "It's a bit like using a pressure cooker, only the
pressures and temperatures we use are much higher," said Douglas
Elliott, who led the research.
"In a sense, we are duplicating the process in the Earth that converted
algae into oil over the course of millions of years. We're just doing
it much, much faster."
This
magic gas could be coming to your local gas station sooner than you
think. The Department of Energy already has a partner, Genifuel, working
on commercializing the process and making the algae fuel competitive
with what's already on the market. But, boy, is it going to be
futuristic when you pull up to a gas station and pump your tank full of
algae. Talk about going green.
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