That vision has echoes of the original biofuel industry boom.

The biofuel industry has been competing for supplies of grain, pushing up the cost of soybean and corn.

Yeasts have recently been used to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells, and produce ethanol for the biofuel industry.

To foster the biofuel industry, governments have implemented legislations and laws as incentives to reduce oil dependency and to increase the use of renewable energies.