Hold the phone. Perhaps I was too quick to bad mouth the biological approach. What about green solar energy:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080603102752.htm
Sounds much more doable than try plant our way out of an energy problem. If we can get the bugs to do our work for us, this could definitely be a way to go.
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