Hardy algae promising in biofuel production

Biodiesel can be produced from vegetation such as soybeans, sunflowers and rapeseed, but the best way to create the fuel may come from a little organism that likes sewage, grows in water and can produce up to 50 percent of its body weight in oil.

The report stated it would take about 770 square miles – an area less than a hundredth the size of New Mexico – of algae farmland to produce 7.5 billion gallons of biodiesel.