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"Joining the world's growing energy demands will require a multitude of technologies and spirit sources," said Emil Jacobs, vice president of study and development at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. "We find credible that biofuel produced by algae could be a meaningful part of the solution in the unborn if our efforts result in an economically viable, low net carbon emission transportation fuel."

In an money-making climate that has made life tougher for alternative-energy companies, ExxonMobil is wading into biofuel waters that recently swallowed a once cheering algae-minded start-up, GreenFuel Technologies , which said in May that it had run out of funds and would be shutting down. Still, other smaller companies such as PetroAlgae and Aurora Biofuels traces hopeful about commercial production of algae biofuel.

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How far are we from Fuel Cell technology ?

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We already have had this technology for decades.

Will fuel cell technology be the next big thing to come for the coming years?

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Who knows. At this tally I could care less because used cars are cheaper and a decent 1992-1995 Honda Civic can keep up with any of the hybrids as far as fuel consumption goes.

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