Fracking, innovation, ethanol and Silly Putty

Brighter brights and whiter whites

It’s not completely dissimilar, for those of you less intimately familiar with the technical work that enzymes perform, from the kind of results often touted with enzyme-laden laundry detergents that Moms and Dads know for delivering “brighter brights and whiter whites”.

As they do sometimes in detergent TV advertising, let’s look at the before and after shots.

Here, before, is the work of traditional enzymes in opening up pathways for yeasts to access more starch.

Now, here, is the work that Spirizyme Achieve accomplishes.

Note those much bigger tunnels that the yeast can dig in to to access all that lovely starch. The more starch accessed, the more converted to ethanol. More yield per ton will either translate into better profits for the plant, more income for the farer in the form of higher commodity prices, or lower prices for consumers if the savings are passed along to them.

Markets will determine how that added productivity gain is shared across the supply chain — but it sure can take pressure off protein and vegetable oil prices to provide, simultaneously, income to the farmer, income to the processor and affordable prices to the cattle rancher.

Productivity, in the end, the ultimate provider of value into the economy — and it ought to be saluted wherever found.

In today’s coverage, we finish with fracking, and the cocepts underlying it — and creating more energy for a globalizing economy – via the page links below.