Biofuels are certainly a thing - over 100 billion liters were produced last year [0]. For a while, it looked like there were credible avenues to using algae to

Biofuels are certainly a thing - over 100 billion liters were produced last year [0]. For a while, it looked like there were credible avenues to using algae to produce jet fuel, and there were even test flights. Unfortunately, pumping fuel out of the ground is really, really cheap, and most of these companies went under or pivoted [1] (a gallon of algae-produced omega-3 oil or cooking oil is worth far more than a gallon of algae-produced Jet-A). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel [1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lessons-from-the-great-algae-biofuel-bubble https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lessons-from-th...