I live in an area with a lot of high tech jobs (Salt Lake) and I can tell you that the competition is intense. I have been looking for a job for almost five months, with a Master's in engineering and no experience/internships (think that last bit is really screwing me atm), and I have received one interview total. Several of my applications were even auto rejected because I had 95% of the skills they wanted, but not 100%. The pool of applicants is so large that they don't have to care if you don't have absolutely everything they want. I was always told that engineering is a skill set that leads to easy employment, if you can make it through college. Turns out that was wildly inaccurate.

Umm, because bacteria, algae and plants make hydrocarbons in exactly this method? The problem is the steps involved to make these kinds of chemicals (gasoline) are generally waste products (from other reactions) which poison the algae, making it difficult to get high concentrations/ lots of production.

Cantennas are perfectly legal- where does does idea of illegality come from? The only thing I could find is one cop who didn't know what the hell he was talking about.