Yet a third player in the emerging
algae fuel market is Synthetic Genomics, the brainchild of genomics guru Craig Venter, who beat the U.S. government in sequencing the human genome and at a fraction of the cost.
Maybe
algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via
fuel cells; but the
market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.