Although not really stressed in the article, the appeal of algae based biofuels is the potential to bioengineer the oils that are produced, essentially manipulating nature to do much of the energy intensive refinery work of converting messy oils into a nice clean fuel source. That algae produces oil is not big news, but bacterial genes spliced into algae to produce biodiesel, or offgassing gasoline; that's the real story.

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