Renewable oilman

摘要

Algae that can turn carbon dioxide back into fossil fuel - it sounds too good to be true. How is this going to work?rnAlgae use carbon dioxide to generate a number of oil molecules, via photosynthesis, as a way of storing energy. People have been trying to make them overproduce the oil and store it. We're changing the algae's gene structure to get them to produce hydrocarbons similar to those that come out of the ground and to trick them into pumping these hydrocarbons out instead of accumulating them. As other groups get CO_2 sequestration techniques going, we'd like to take that CO_2 and get the algae to convert it back into oil. The aim is to prevent it from further increasing carbon in the atmosphere.