Is single-celled organisms.
It's not a new tactic really, the little guys spent a few million years figuring out how to harness solar power and now we have the ability to create them from genetic scratch. By taking the world's most simple genome and playing legos with it, researchers can now produce designer organisms. A few acres of phytoplankton making jet fuel from sunlight, and we're in business.
It's not science fiction man; it's here:
Not-so-new Industry Startup
Most interestingly, the guys pioneering the tech speaking at TED
Biomass into hydrocarbons (Ars)
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