Today in Biofuels Opinion: “a vein of technology so deep, it will spawn a host of innovations.”

Charles O. Holliday, chairman of Dupont: “Industrial biotechnology is a technology whose time has come. For sixty years we have focused on long chain polymers – mylar, nylon, to name a few, and with biobased chemistry and fuels that’s what we’re looking at: a vein of technology so deep, it will spawn a host of innovations. We believe it has much more breadth than polymer chemistry. This climate change issue is that big. One of our challenges is to continue our lines of business, to keep the company together, while we develop these new projects.”

From ecoworldly.com: “In a macabre When Life Deals You Lemons - Make Lemonade kind of news item: Growing food is still too dangerous in southeastern Belarus because the region is still so contaminated by fallout from Chernobyl that crops grown there cannot safely be eaten by humans for hundreds of years, until the radioactive isotopes decay. Yet 1.5 million mostly older people have not left, and some are in fact growing some grain on the contaminated land anyway. The radioactive material concentrates in roots and stalks, which they just plough back into the ground after harvesting. As a result; the soil is still almost as contaminated now as it was after the accident. Things could not be much worse there than they are now and the Belarus government is open to new ideas. So when an Irish company had the idea of remediating the soil by planting a biofuel crop, Belarus was more open to the idea than you might imagine.”

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