
Due to deforestation, global warming and lack of fresh (surface) water acres of land turn into dust every year. Desertification, as it is called, is hard to stop and may turn a significant percentage of our landmass into unusable soil.

Due to high oil prices and the competing demands between foods and other biofuel sources, such as palm and soybeans, due to the world’s food crisis, interest in biofuel from Algae is higher than ever before. Algae are one of the fastest growing plant species in the world. Some strains of algae can even grow so rapidly that they double in size every day, producing large amounts of lipids (oils).