Originally Posted by jshadows

I'm a bit concerned with the algae biomass recovery as it's either underfunded as you say or maybe not the silver bullet some people thought it once was. The UNH program site has not been updated since 2004 and I couldn't find any obvious reference to either professors research areas within their personal bios..in fact if I remember correctly one of the professors (the physics one) was not even there anymore.

This is not new stuff. If you search on google scholar, there's references dating well back into the 80's. One ref is Shay, 1993 Diesel fuel from vegetable oils. Status and opportunities. Or an overview Biodiesel Production : A Review

It's definitely working in certain markets though. There's several business making omega-3 and omega-6 oils using organisms pulled out of regular old water, cultured, tricked into producing oil and then harvested to make what is probably many millions of dollars in the alimentary supplements business.