The significant factor in this article shouldn’t be the microorganisms that eat pentadecane, but rather the ones that are presumably generating it.
If you’re worried about CO2 (I’m not), one should be able to isolate those latter organisms, “domesticate” them, feed them waste CO2 and sunlight, and then recover the pentadecane, which is essentially diesel fuel. Global warming solved, and fuel for semis generated - why waste all that pentadecane on a bunch of ocean-dwelling critters when we could be feeding it to Mack trucks?
The solution to our problems has never been extreme deprivation - it's always been invention. If this works democrat control-freak thugs will be so sad... bye bye commie environmentalists...
The “domestication” of such cyanobacteria is a long, hard, and expensive proposition. In captivity, they are more fragile and finicky than exotic tropical fish.
Brilliant, especially if it is possible to replicate the cycle on an economic scale.