Electron microscopy of hydrocarbon production in green plants
- Author
- Bauer, T.
- Published
- United States : [publisher not identified], 1976.
[Oak Ridge, Tennessee] : [U.S. Atomic Energy Commission], 1976. - Physical Description
- microfiche : negative ; 11 x 15 cm
- Additional Creators
- Glaeser, R.
- Summary
- This year the land area of the United States will receive one thousand times as much energy from the sun as our society will use. Plants can be cultivated which convert the incident solar flux to chemical bond energy at efficiencies of approximately 1 percent. Three hundred million acres of energy plantation would produce our current energy needs forever, or at least until the sun burns out. For comparison, the United States currently has about three hundred fifty million acres under cultivation. Besides energy, our society requires a great number of materials currently derived from declining oil supplies. These materials, lubricants, plastics, rubber, etc., can also be biologically produced; for example, Malaysian rubber trees currently produce two thousand pounds of rubber per acre. The potential for growing hydrocarbon materials in the United States is great and largely untapped. This paper describes current and proposed research into hydrocarbon production in green plants.
- Report Numbers
- LBL-4789
- Other Subject(s)
- 550500 - metabolism
- 550800 - morphology
- 59 basic biological sciences
- Alkenes
- Anatomy
- Biochemical reaction kinetics
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Biomass
- Biosynthesis
- Chemical reactions
- Chemistry
- Cytology
- Elastomers
- Electron microscopy
- Energy sources
- Hydrocarbons
- Kinetics
- Latex
- Metabolism
- Microscopy
- Molecular biology
- Morphological changes
- Organic compounds
- Organic polymers
- Photochemical reactions
- Photosynthesis
- Plants
- Polymers
- Reaction kinetics
- Renewable energy sources
- Rubbers
- Synthesis
- Terpenes
- Trees
- Collection
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission depository collection.
- Note
- DOE contract number: W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI Identifier 7324143
Research organization: California Univ., Berkeley (USA). Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
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