This video shows algae, which eats carbon dioxide and excretes oil, in action. Over time, the biomass falls away to the bottom and leaves the oil at the top.

This technology is part of a new movement towards green oil, including products like ethanol, biofuels and oils like this one from algae. While the number of companies working on extracting the oil has multiplied, few companies specialize in harvesting the algae itself.

OriginOil, which filmed the video, has begun to fill that niche, a process OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry compares to getting the “KoolAid out of the water.”

Read about the AOL interview with Riggs Eckelberry in Feed Me With CO2.