‘Bio-Crude Oil’ can be made in Less Than 60 Minutes from algae.

I do not agree with the theory that it takes millions of years to produce naturally, but interesting none the less.

The natural process of turning organic matter into crude oil takes millions of years, but scientists recently revealed a method that takes less than 60 minutes.

Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory engineers used an algae mixture to produce the “bio-crude oil.”

“In the PNNL process, a slurry of wet algae is pumped into the front end of a chemical reactor,” the news release about the research stated. “Once the system is up and running, out comes crude oil in less than an hour, along with water and a byproduct stream of material containing phosphorus that can be recycled to grow more algae.”

[link to www.theblaze.com]