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[rcjordan]

"Darpa's research projects have already extracted oil from algal ponds at a cost of $2 per gallon. It is now on track to begin large-scale refining of that oil into jet fuel, at a cost of less than $3 a gallon...

...McQuiston said a larger-scale refining operation, producing 50 million gallons a year, would come on line in 2011 and she was hopeful the costs would drop still further"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/13/algae-solve-pentagon-fuel-problem

[nop_90]

it pretty cool that actually.
will not solve pentagon problem though lol