Biofuels haven't exactly made headlines as of late, but exciting innovations are still being discovered. Needless to say the prospects of turning algae into petroleum is darn revolutionary.
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"It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil. Michigan Engineering researchers can "pressure-cook" algae for as little as a minute and transform an unprecedented 65% of the green slime into biocrude.
"We're trying to mimic the process in nature that forms crude oil with marine organisms," said Phil Savage, an Arthur F. Thurnau professor and a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan."
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