Gribbles — why these wood-feasting microbial Vikings might be energy stars
The bottom line
Forecasting from the Billion Ton Study of biomass resources
Ah, then there’s replication and scale-up. Never as quick as hoped, never as cheap. It’s some time before gribblenomics will come to the processing of wood into biofuels.
Already, the University of Portsmouth is hailing the advances with “Gribble enzyme might be holy grail for biofuel,” and that it probably just a tad hyperbolic and premature.
Forecasting from the Billion Ton Study of biomass resources
But if there ever was a simple path to a relatively well-developed system for breaking down wood biomass, without the need for freshwater, that was well-proven in nature — well, that’s the gribble’s achievement.
He’s not much to look at but his enzymes pack a mighty punch.
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