More and more, experts on the subject are viewing algae as a likely source for jet fuel in the future.

More evidence from across the pond that second generation biofuels really offer so much hope for a better future.

Arizona State researchers Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld made a big splash at an air show in London with their algae based biofuels.  ASU is partnering with Boeing to develop methods to create the new fuel.

Just another example of the hope biofuels offer to end our dependence on foreign oil.

CNN Producer producer Cody McCloy, who’s driving across the United States in a biofueled diesel-powered vehicle, used an algae based fuel to power his car yesterday in California.  According to CNN:

“The production of algae has several positives, expert say. Algae, at the most basic level, needs only sunlight, carbon dioxide, nutrients and water to grow. And though the pond and reactor systems needed for the mass production of algae require land, algae does not need land to live and grow.”

Algae, like so many other biofuels alternatives, does not compete with food stocks and offers so much promise to help end our addiction to oil. 

Hereis an interesting story from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune about a company in Anoka, Minnesota, working on turning algae into biofuels.  It might take a few years, but here is the money:

“Using just 3 percent of our current crop land, algae could be used to produce 63 billion gallons of the diesel fuel currently used annually in the United States.”