When I hear people lamenting the eventual end of the Age of Oil, and gnashing their teeth about where our power is going to come from, the science fiction geek in me has to laugh. The sun radiates enough power to keep us in electricity for billions of years; we just need to figure out the most efficient way to capture it. Which is why this story is such a good read; it discusses using fast-growing algae to produce oil, which then can be used as biofuel. While still experimental, it's already proving itself to be far more efficient then producing ethanol from corn, and even better, it could be use to sequester CO2 from factories, since the algae needs CO2 for photosythnesis.

This is the sort of innovation we need, not dead ends like corn-based ethanol that end up using more fuel then they produce, while simultaneously driving up food prices as more and more land is planted for corn rather than other staple crops.