Biofuel breakthrough: Quick cook method turns algae into oil | 21st Century Innovative Technologies and Developments as also discoveries, curiosity ( insolite)... | Scoop.it
It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil.

 

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http://phys.org/news/2012-10-biofuel-breakthrough-quick-cook-method.html