The vivid pink pools of Western Australia’s Hutt Lagoon are the world’s largest algae farm. Steve Back (used with permission) July 29, 2015 Sustainable oil from algae: the technology is ready, but what about the politics? Bojan Tamburic, University of Technology Sydney and Arunima Malik, University of Sydney We have the technology to make oil from algae, rather than digging up crude oil from organisms that lived billions of years ago. But bringing it to market will take a force of economic and political will.