research efforts are underway to produce a cost-competitive bio-diesel from algae. lance seefeldt and other professors formed the biofuels program at energy dynamics laboratory to develop new and emerging technologies that will produce methane, biodiesel, hydrogen and alcohols from renewable, carbon-dioxide-neutral energy sources, such as consumer and agricultural waste and sunlight. dallas hanks, a doctoral student, has initiated a program at the university called freeways to fuel, which is growing oilseed crops for biodiesel in previously unused municipal land such as highway roadsides. hanks estimates that in the u.s., of such unused land exists—land which generally serves no other purpose and currently costs tax dollars to maintain. early yields from the crops are promising, and the program has spread to other land-grant universities across the nation. he has a goal to produce of biofuel in five years.