Producing biodiesel from algae has been touted as the most efficient way to make biodiesel fuel.
Algal-oil processes into biodiesel as easily as oil derived from land-based crops.
The difficulties in efficient biodiesel production from algae lie not in the extraction of the oil, but in finding an algal strain with a high lipid content and fast growth rate that is not too difficult to harvest, and a cost-effective cultivation system that
is best suited to that strain.