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Author Archive: Matt Carr
Don't Rush to Judgment
In 1953 Linus Pauling and Robert Corey published their structure of DNA, 3 strands twisted around each other. Shortly after that James Watson and Francis Crick published the correct structure of DNA, the one on which the biotechnology industry is built.That is the way science goes. Scientists make discoveries, publish their work, and others come along to either support or dispute those discoveries. Imagine if we had just rushed to judgment back then and gone Read More >
Tell the Real Story
A growing chorus of media reports have commented on recent dramatic rises in food prices across the world: Food Prices Rising Across the World — CNN.com Rising Grain Prices Panic Developing World — Washington Post United Nations Says Millions At Risk From Soaring Food Prices — Bloomberg Nearly all of these articles identify biofuels production as the leading cause. But a cursory glance at grain production statistics reveals that biofuels – certainly in the U.S., Read More >
Linking Biotechnology, Chemistry & Agriculture for a better future
Interested in alternative energy sources? BIO’s World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, on April 27-30 in Chicago, IL, is the forum where experts from around the globe come together to discuss this topic, with major themes around sustainability and climate change. But let’s not stop there. If industrial and environmental biotechnology is your business — this is a meeting you must attend. We’ll have sessions about: synthetic biology and directed evolution, sustainable biofuels, bioplastics, and Read More >
The Truth is Out There: But you have to look
Biofuels are great! There. I’ve been wanting to say that. And I say that not just because I work here at BIO, but because the science in the Science papers needs a little examining. There is misinformation all over the blogosphere. For example, Siko, in the German Carzone posting the following comments today, “Two studies shows that replacing fossil fuels with corn-based ethanol would double greenhouse gas emissions over the next three decades. The studies Read More >
The Truth is Out There
The journal Science published two papers: Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land Use Change Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt in their online, early publication ScienceXpress that suggest that the production and use of biofuels may be worse for climate change than gasoline. The study and papers argue that cultivating more land to produce biofuels will create a “carbon debt” that has to be repaid. The conclusion Read More >
