While plenty of technology exists to extract and sequester CO2, ranging from biofuels to direct air capture, none have been scaled up commercially.
In the longer term, predicting protein structure will also help design synthetic proteins, such as enzymes that digest waste or produce biofuels.
While the first boom was primarily about cleaning up the power sector and early efforts to address transportation—and was particularly concentrated on thin-film solar, electric cars, and advanced biofuels—venture capital is now ranging more widely.
For example, ART can predict how to increase the production of wanted biochemicals—drugs, biofuels—or squash unwanted chemicals such as biotoxins.
For example, one trial was using ART to optimize carbon-neutral biofuel production with living cells.
This is a lot of biofuel, which is why somebody, in an effort to get rid of the stuff, has been watering our gasoline.
“Biofuel” can be made out of anything that will ferment or rot, including digestive system waste products.
But this year the old butter went for biofuel testing, and BuMann got a new batch.