Algae to Crude Oil: Million-year Natural Process Takes Minutes in the Lab
18th December 2013
“Cost is the big roadblock for algae-based fuel,” said Douglas Elliott, the laboratory fellow who led the PNNL team’s research. “We believe that the process we’ve created will help make algae biofuels much more economical.”
But not, apparently, economical enough to replace regular petroleum. Pity.