25 Million Acres of Corn with nowhere to go?
Changes in bioenergy mix, corn productivity point to massive oversupply of acreage by 2030.
Buried inside the USDA’s Biofuels Strategic Production Report is a startling prediction from both EPA and USDA: if the Renewable Fuel Standard targets are to be met by 2022, there will be a wholesale [...]
Fuel from Thin Air
Joule Biotechnologies achieves conversion of CO2, sunlight into hydrocarbons – no biomass, no extraction, no kidding
In Hawaii, at the BIO Pacific Rim Summit, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has achieved direct microbial conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule’s Helioculture process mixes sunlight and CO2 with [...]
Artificial life by New Year’s?
In California, a report on Craig Venter in Discover focuses on the Synthetic Genomics founder’s ambitions to develop synthetic life forms. While researchers have succeeded in “stitching together pieces of synthesized DNA” and transplanting that to a host bacterium; but the bacterium has been rejecting the genome as an invader, until [...]