High-oil algaes?

Question

A company is using high-oil algaes to make bio-diesel. My question is what is the specific name of the algaes that they are using in the process, or what are the the specific species that are high-oil or is there a site i can learn more about them.

Answer 1

The best site I can give you: http://www.oilgae.com. I used to do a bit of research on this before (couple of years ago), it didn't seem like the field is pretty advanced. But seems quite promising (I would say very, very promising - i remember being in a state of epiphany for a few days, dreaming of big ponds with algae growing and woke up one day and decided to focus on other things in life).

From their, list, here is a pace that gives a list of species.

http://www.oilgae.com/algae/oil/yield/yi...

Please offer me a job if you are seriously into this and are going to do something. I would love to work, well... depends on where you are :-).