The clouds are mostly hydrocarbons.

These are the same bonds that hold hydrocarbons together.

The enzymes remanufactured the hydrocarbons into carbohydrates fungal sugars.

86 percent of the energy we consume are hydrocarbons.

If you're making money selling hydrocarbons, you're going to make less money.

A thick atmosphere of hydrocarbons shields Titan's surface, which contains organic compounds capable of supporting life.

And we've got to start thinking of oil and other hydrocarbons as part of these solar panels.

But in the meantime, for the next decade at least, the name of the game is hydrocarbons.

And as you're looking at this system, if hydrocarbons are concentrated sunlight, then bioenergy works in a different way.

Now, the interesting thing about that thesis if that thesis turns out to be true is that oil, and all hydrocarbons, turned out to be concentrated sunlight.

In fact, even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

And we've just recently demonstrated this by putting extract of hydrocarbons on little glass beads, and dropping the beads gently down into the nest entrance at the right rate.

Whereas the other three piles were dead, dark and stinky, and the PAH's the aromatic hydrocarbons went from 10,000 parts per million to less than 200 in eight weeks.

And we've learned that, in this species and I suspect in others as well these hydrocarbons, this layer of grease on the outside of ants, is different as ants perform different tasks.

And we've done experiments that show that that's because the longer an ant stays outside, the more these simple hydrocarbons on its surface change, and so they come to smell different by doing different tasks.

And they can use that task specific odor in cuticular hydrocarbons they can use that in their brief antennal contacts to somehow keep track of the rate at which they're meeting ants of certain tasks.

Then we need to retool the car industry and do retraining, and shift the convergence of the energy and ag value chains to shift faster from hydrocarbons to carbohydrates, and get out of our own way in other ways.

We have a program with Exxon Mobile to try and develop new strains of algae that can efficiently capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or from concentrated sources, make new hydrocarbons that can go into their refineries to make normal gasoline and diesel fuel out of CO2.