I agree. It might be sensible, but we do not know per the article information. Doing some very, very rough estimates, I figured we would might be able to take

I agree. It might be sensible, but we do not know per the article information. Doing some very, very rough estimates, I figured we would might be able to take 20 barrels of algae slurry, "cook" them (@ 350°C & 3000 PSI) for a thousand hours and get one barrel of petrol. Little or no mention of other inputs/processes involved. My point is, we will be able to do this if we have to, but it will not be cheap, and even if we have the money we may not have other resources to do it at large scale. Like... to make it available for all motorists in the world to drive happily ever after. It is more likely that this will be an strategic resource that governments will use to fulfill needs that cannot be fulfilled any other way (like (military) aviation... you cannot just stick a Mr.Fusion in the tale of a plane and go to the infinity and beyond).