Green Options » Industrial Engineering & Chemical Research http://greenoptions.com/tag/industrial-engineering-chemical-research Posts tagged 'Industrial Engineering & Chemical Research' Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:10:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Scientists Seek Ways to Harvest Fossil Fuel Faster http://gas2.org/2009/06/19/scientists-seek-ways-to-harvest-fossil-fuel-faster/ http://gas2.org/2009/06/19/scientists-seek-ways-to-harvest-fossil-fuel-faster/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:10:42 +0000 Susan Kraemer http://gas2.org/2009/06/19/scientists-seek-ways-to-harvest-fossil-fuel-faster/ Suggestions are floated in the current issue of Industrial Engineering & Chemical Research on the best way to farm living diatoms to turn their oil into a new oil field  containing “massive amounts of gasoline.”

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As previously fossilized fuel supplies dwindle,  pinhead-sized diatoms - at the bottom of the food chain - have become the focus of the attention of the rapacious creatures at the top of the food chain. As we humans run out of oil, we have begun to cast about desperately for our new oil supplies.

Where better to look than at the tiny creatures who died to make us oil millions of years ago?

Lets not wait another million years for currently living diatoms to leave us new oil supplies. Lets extract their oil while they are still alive!

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