Biofuel breakthrough: quick cook method turns algae into oil

[DR Johansen]

By University of Michigan | November 06, 2012

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 percent of the green slime into biocrude.

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