Project
PETRO is one of the project under the US department of energy(Advance Research
Projects Agency-Enegy) under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Burbaum , PETRO
means Plants Engineered To Replace Oil, other than PETRO there are plenty of
projects having the same outcome(green energy) with different inputs, in PETRO
they used plants as producer of fuel to machines (it is already giving fuel for
us!),
Significance of PETRO PLANTS:
Plants which are used as manufacturer of
fuel is called PETRO PLANT, they(ARPA-E) currently doing projects on sorghum,
tobacco leaves, pine trees etc., following paragraph was given as introduction
to PETRO by US Department Of Energy "The 10 projects that comprise
ARPA-E’s PETRO program, short for “Plants Engineered to Replace Oil,” aim to
develop non-food crops that directly produce transportation fuel. These crops
can help supply the transportation sector with agriculturally derived fuels
that are cost-competitive with petroleum and do not affect U.S. food supply.
PETRO aims to redirect the processes for energy and carbon dioxide (CO2)
capture in plants toward fuel production. This would create dedicated energy
crops that serve as a domestic alternative to petroleum-based fuels and deliver
more energy per acre with less processing prior to the pump."
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