Race to algae-based biodiesel heats up

The algae method looks promising, providing the present difficulties can be overcome.

If the result is to be used as car, truck or jet fuel, it is a waste of precious resources.

What should have been, and needs to be urgently developed, are engines for these which are far more efficient.

The only useful prospects on a very distant wheeled transport horizon appear to be electric wheel technology, married to electronic controls and vastly improved fuel cell technology.

Air transport via jet engines, is totally off the energy map, as these are gross fuel users and gross polluters at the same time, but because jet aircraft are extensively used by Military, Politicians, Bankers and their ilk, don't expect the use of jet aircraft to stop while the last drop of oil can be extracted from somewhere, at the expense of others, in the usual manner to which they have become accustomed.

Remember that the most efficient transport, when resource usage/fuel/total system efficiency is taken into the equation, is an old-style pedal bicycle, without those expensive chain/sprocket-wearing gears.

Kind Regards....