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Biofuel Breakthrough: Quick Cook Method Turns Algae Into Oil
October 31, 2012
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It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil. University of 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. Full StorySource
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