The most exciting prospect held out by Venter, however, is a form of algae that can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it to create diesel fuel or gasoline. Synthetic Genomics has a $600 million agreement with ExxonMobil to obtain fuel from algae.
但温特所提出的最令人兴奋的前景，是一种可以从大气中吸收二氧化碳并将其利用来生产柴油或者汽油的藻类。对此人造基因公司已经和埃克森美孚公司签订了的一份价值6亿美元的藻类炼油协议。