Goofball Bill Gates just won't stay the hell out of the news lately. Like the geek who wins the student body elections to prove he's popular, Gates is no longer content to just be an eccentric quadrillionaire, he's got to prove he's "cool" too.

Now that the Microsoft commercials with Gates and Seinfeld got nixed, and the high-profile campaign for Windows morphed into some weird ouroboros of PCs making fun of Macs making fun of PCs, Gates turns his nerd gaze towards the future of of renewable fuel:

Sapphire Energy, which hopes to create fuel for cars from algae, is undergoing series B financing, and Gates and several other large investment companies brought up Sapphire's total invested capital to $100 M. (The algae fat) can then be refined into biodiesel with a much smaller footprint than current crops like soy, corn or rape.

God that would be the best way to solve energy crisis, since algae uses sunlight and carbon dioxide to create energy from lipids, and is way less toxic to mother earth than fossil fuel or rape.