Which plants are good resources for biofuel production ... "Cultivating Clean Energy. The Promise of Algae Biofuels." Report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Terrapin Bright ...

Making biofuel from algae is not a new technology (getting it to work in commercial-scale plants at reasonable costs, that's another story), but it's also not one that is fully developed.

One more step in the road to turn waste into fuel, one more step to turn algae into biodiesel ... from a coal plant through a bioreactor to make biodiesel. C-NET's Martin LaMonica writes that ...

There is still work to be done before people everywhere can use algae to make biofuel. Large amounts of water are needed, costs are currently high, and today’s processing methods must be improved.

The oil and gas giant says it could be making 10,000 barrels a day within a few years--a small drop in the amount of oil it produces, but a huge boost in the amount of algae-based biofuel.