One wee snippet caught Stalker’s attention in the papers recently about the potential to make petrol from the cyanobacteria ( blue-green algae) which inhabit the oceans of the world.
These little critters produce hydrocarbons, exactly the same as the constituents of oil. A team of scientists from MIT and the University of Warwick estimated that cyanobacteria produce up to 800 million tons of hydrocarbons every year.
The U.S. produced about 700 million tons of petroleum and other hydrocarbon liquids in 2014, the most of any nation that year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
