Yeah, at present what they are producing with algae is oil very similar to veggie oil. Then they refine it into bio. If you read the article closely it says that
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Darpa's research projects have already extracted oil from algal ponds at a cost of US$2 a gallon. It is on track to begin large-scale refining of that oil into jet fuel, at a cost of less than US$3 a gallon...
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Which is right in line with the cost to mass process VO into bio (about $1 a gallon). The beauty of algae is that it can be grown in vertical tanks and produce a LOT more oil per acre than any oil seed. Plus it doesn't take much but water, nutrients (sewage, garbage, other wastes) and sunlight to grow. Where most of the research has been concentrated up to this point is in developing strains of algae that produce more oil than ordinary natural strains...
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