TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Composition: (I) further comprises a glucose polymer, a galactose polymer and an arabinose polymer. (I) further comprises fatty acid esters. The natural algae synthetic lubricant composition is present at 0.01-30 wt.%. Preferred Method: The collecting step comprises draining kelp into a collection vessel. The drying step comprises removing water from the sieve sap. The removing salt step comprises dialysis. The harvesting step involves harvesting kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera). The method further comprises the step of chopping/milling the marine macroalgae. The treating step comprises dialysis. The method further comprises: the step of converting syngas from the gasification to a liquid fuel biofuel material; and treating the liquid biofuel material to upgrade the material to jet fuel, diesel, naphtha or other transportation fuels. The converting syngas to liquid step comprises using Fischer-Tropsch's process or Silva-Gas Rentech's process to produce the liquid fuel biofuel material. The method further comprises treating the biofuel material to upgrade the material to jet fuel, diesel, naphtha or other transportation fuels. The method of recovering trace metals from marine macroalgae comprises the step of treating bio-char products from the pyrolysis step with a process suitable to remove trace metals. Preferred Components: The fatty acid esters have carbon lengths of 2-30. The feedstock material is in the form of nuggets or bricks.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Components: The polyol component is present at 65-75 wt.% and the polymer component is present at 25-35 wt.%. The polyol component further comprises mannose (less than 1 wt.%) and glucose and galactose (less than 1 wt.%). The high molecular weight polymer has a molecular weight above 200000, preferably 300000. The polyol component and the polymer component are derived from brown macroalgae or the sap of brown macroalgae (Macrosystis pyrifera). EXAMPLE - Typical composition comprised (in wt.%): moisture (93.44); ash (2.92); mannitol (2.545); glucose (0.007); galactose (0.001); arabinose (0.001); and polymer having molecular weight of 300000 (1.04).