The Wall Street Journal has an interview with J. Craig Venter, the biologist who mapped the human genome and whose company Synthetic Genomics last year received a sizeable commitmentfrom ExxonMobil to develop biofuels from algae.
Venter strikes an interesting balance between optimism and the reality of the many unknowns in getting algal biofuel towards being both cost-effective and scalable.
[We were interested to read the Synthetic Genomics is also working on a project with BP, although the financial details of that arrangement have not been disclosed.]
He talks about using natural or modified organisms that consume CO2 as their feedstock to create transport fuels.
For more details Click here
Best Regards to
No comments:
Post a Comment