Dr. No

The Case Against Ethanol

Two thirds of Americans are overweight, one third is obese, worse than any other country. 70% of grain is used to generate animal protein at a 8:1 ratio. There is huge savings potential for grain in a better diet (ie avoiding cardivascular and metabolic diseases) by cutting meat intake. Also, Americans eat twice as much as they need per day - again huge savings potential right on your plate.
Finally, America is the biggest consumer of everything: energy, food.

Make the connection fatzo: eat less - drive more!

Verenium: Green And Promising Emerging Biotechnologies

Diversa has been add trying to offer solutions using their enzyme and archea solutions since 15+ years now and not really taken off. Celunol is essentially using an old process to produce an energy storage (ethanol in this case, we could do others). The underlying technological challenge is 40 to 100 years old and not much technological imporvement happened. What makes us believe the key advance happened since they merged a few months ago ? What happened ?