Better this guy would continue working on algae to finally invent that (definitely possible) strain that would be useful to produce cheap fuel from! He tried to play that eternal zero sum game instead... sad
> Lun, who was born in Hong Kong, splits his time between his firm in Pennsylvania and lab at Rutgers, where he’s undertaken an ambitious long-term project: creating computer models that predict how cells behave, using data from blue-green algae and other sources. The models allow Lun to re-engineer genes for useful purposes: he has modified E. coli for production of bio-fuel for transportation.