250 times the amount of oil per acre as soybeans. In
fact, producing biodiesel from algae may be only the
way to produce enough automotive fuel to replace
current gasoline usage. Algae produce 7 to 31 time
greater oil than palm oil. It is very simple to extract oil
from algae. The best algae for biodiesel would be
microalgae. Microalgae are an organism capable of
photosynthesis that is less than 2 mm in diameter.
Macroalgae, like seaweed, is not as widely used in the
production of biodiesel. Microalgae has much more oil
than macroalgae and it is much faster and easier to
grow[10].