Nanotechnology is being used to extract oil from algae without actually killing the algae. Several universities are working on this right now.
You can’t make this stuff up...
Is that little robots with milking stools?
“Is that little robots with milking stools?”
Hardly!
Think of little academented bachelor’s children squatting on milking stools busy milking the grant cow (AKA the taxpayers) as hard as they can.