Bill Nye lamented in his book "Unstoppable" that while he invested in a company that created synthetic hydrocarbons from algae, the company found the margins to

Bill Nye lamented in his book "Unstoppable" that while he invested in a company that created synthetic hydrocarbons from algae, the company found the margins to be too thin for typical fuels like methane or gasoline, but were highly profitable for long chain hydrocarbons used in applications such as makeup.