20世纪70年代,美国加利福尼亚大学的化学家、诺贝尔化学奖得主梅尔温·卡尔文突发奇想,决定寻找可能生产出石油的植物,从地里“种”出石油来。经过多年的寻觅,他们终于在巴西的热带雨林里发现了一种能产出“石油”的奇树。其胶汁化学成分居然同柴油极其相似,无需加工提炼,就可以当柴油来使用。 “石油植物”种类不少。许多乔木、灌木、草类、藻类等都含有可观的天然炼油物质,这些植物主要集中在夹竹桃科、大戟科、萝摩科、菊科、桃金娘科以及豆科上。某些野草也含有类似“石油”的成分,美国加利福尼亚州境内广泛生长着 In the 1970s, Melvin Calvin, a chemist and Nobel Laureate in chemistry at the University of California, whipped her mind and decided to look for plants that could produce oil and “oil” from the ground. After years of searching, they finally found an extraordinary tree in Brazil’s tropical rain forest that produces “oil.” The chemical composition of its glue with diesel actually very similar, without processing, refining, you can use when diesel. “Oil plant ” many types. Many trees, shrubs, grasses, algae, etc. contain considerable natural refining substances, these plants are mainly concentrated in the Apocynaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Romoranthe, Compositae, Myrtaceae and legumes. Some weeds also contain ingredients similar to “petroleum”, widely grown in the state of California, USA