U.S. Companies Focus on Extracting Oil from Algae

Will it be cost-effective someday soon to produce jet fuel from algae — the same green, viscous substances that can choke aquatic life out of a pond? The Defense Department posed that question to private industry recently and is pushing for an answer with funding.

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