J. Craig Venter
Biologist, author and businessman Craig Venter discusses his work mapping and synthesizing genomes. Venter recalls his work mapping the human genome and expands on his current work.
The projects and equipment he describes are fantastic. He says it is not a matter of "creating life", but of engineering it. He is close to "booting up" a synthetic bacteria. He is intently aware of bio-ethics but listen close, he is no alarmist, and is working very hard to accomplish new things. Few are listening.
Most exciting is his plan to adapt a microbe he found on his world spanning ocean voyage on his boat. The microbe created methane with CO2 input and hydrogen for energy. He wants to make it create octane fuel directly from sequestered CO2 using sunlight for energy, and simply obsolete the need for global oil. He thinks it won't take very long either.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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