Mr. Pal is a senior director of LS9,, one of several companies in or near Silicon Valley that have spurned traditional high-tech activities such as software and networking and embarked instead on an extraordinary race to make $140-a-barrel oil(£70) f

Mr. Pal is a senior director of LS9,, one of several companies in or near Silicon Valley that have spurned traditional high-tech activities such as software and networking and embarked instead on an extraordinary race to make $140-a-barrel oil(£70) from Saudi Arabia obsolete. All of us here----everyone in this company and in this industry, are ware of the urgency,” Mr. Pal says.

在硅谷及其附近地区，有好几家公司索性摒弃了传统的高技术活动，如软件与网络的研发，转而竞相开始从事这种可再生石油的研究，以便淘汰沙特阿拉伯生产的每桶140美元（70英镑）的石油，LS9就是其中的一家。作为LS9公司的高级主管，帕尔先生说：“我们这里所有的人，即我们公司和这个行业的每一个人，都意识到了情况的紧迫性。”