Today’s post was prompted by an invitation from Andrew Revkin to join in on a discussion spawned by his recent post at NYTs “Dot Earth” titled, “Will Synthetic Biology Benefit or Threaten Wild Things?”. A recent conference at Cambridge University brought together two unlikely groups for a groundbreaking conversation between conservationists and synthetic biologists over [...]
Sometimes I just get lucky. Like a couple of weeks ago when I boarded a 5 A.M. bus for the Denver airport. Whodathunk that the nice pleasant lady who sat next to me would want to talk GPS tractors for the hour? Imagine my surprise when she told me she was headed to China and [...]
Corn oil is a new favorite product at ethanol plants. Same song, second verse. The EIA reported earlier this week, that ethanol plants are responding to the difficult market conditions by adding corn oil to their production schemes which improves their margins. “POET Biorefining in Macon, Missouri, and Abengoa in Madison, Illinois, may add corn [...]
