This article was written for the September 13, 2022 issue of Tech News, WPI’s campus newspaper. On August 31 of this year, WPI grad student Heather Leclerc et al. published a paper detailing an improved way to produce biofuel. Biofuel is made by taking some kind of biomass, typically algae or food waste, extracting the oil content, and separating it into different grades of fuel. There are several ways to do this, including chemical reactions and fermentation, but the particular method Leclerc et al.