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Forget the dinosaurs, let's make crude in the kitchen

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Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:25 pm

Forget the dinosaurs, let's make crude in the kitchen

http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20947-biofuel-breakthrough-quick-cook-method-turns-algae-into-oil

Interesting article about breakthroughs in accelerating the processes that turn biological organisms into crude oil.
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Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:50 am

Re: Forget the dinosaurs, let's make crude in the kitchen

All we need now is a process to go straight from algae to 100LL.
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Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:46 pm

Re: Forget the dinosaurs, let's make crude in the kitchen

EUREKA!.... ah,...er,..maybe....

It sounds like a big step in the right direction, but first it has to be 'real'...., and then it has to be very intensively 'up-scaled' to production levels on an economic basis.

It has to be able to crawl before it can walk and then run.
Hopefully this is the start of the crawl....
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