目前,在生产清洁能源的众多方法中,利用藻类生产的生物燃料最接近于海底沉积物产生的原油。在数百万年的时间里,海底的沉积物经由微生物的作用变成了我们所熟知的石油。而美国能源部西北太平洋国家实验室研究人员开发出的一种可持续化学反应,在加入海藻后很快就能产出有用的原油,这使得这一需要进行数百万年的反应得以在1小时内完成。“从某种意义上说,我们‘复制’了自然界用百万年把水藻转化为原油的过程,而我们转化得更多、更快。”研究小组的负责人道格拉斯·埃利奥特说。研究小组保持了水藻的高效能优势,并结合多种方法来降低 Currently, among the many methods of producing clean energy, biofuels produced from algae are closest to the crude oil produced by seabed sediments. For millions of years, sediments on the seabed have become known to the world as microbes. A sustainable chemical reaction developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Northwest Pacific National Laboratory quickly produced useful crude oil after the addition of seaweed, necessitating this millions of years of reaction at 1 Completed within hours “In a sense, we’ve copied nature’s process of converting algae into crude oil in millions of years, and we’ve transformed more and faster.” Douglas Elliot, head of the research team, Say. The team maintained the high-performance advantages of algae and combined it with a variety of methods to reduce it