How to Shift to a Bio-Based Economy
Interested in getting a little insight into how the country will shift from a petroleum-based economy to a bio-based economy? Then look no further than DomesticFuel, or to be more exact, Dyadic International CEO, Mark Emalfarb. Emalfarb was interviewed during the Sixth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing which took place in Canada this past July.
The interview was conducted as part of the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) I am Biotech campaign. Emalfarb was asked several questions including the importance of biotechnology and biofuels, how biotechnology is helping to heal, fuel and feed the world, how do you demonstrate biotech is the way of the future, and more.
You can watch the first part of Mark Emalfarb’s interview here and the second part by clicking here.
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Randy Mofongo
Mr. Emalfarb,
How can a bio-based economy compensate for the issues of scale and time compression?
It took millions of years and trillions of tons of organic biomass for nature to make the bounty of oil we’ve been burning for the last 120 years. How can any process compress those millions of years and trillions of tons into a single growing season at the scale of a typical industrial plant?
Any individual process may indeed successfully produce fuel from organic matter, but how do we scale that up to the billions and billions of gallons of oil-based fuel we consume?
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