Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Transformers: 8 Technologies To Rock the Bio World

Biofuels Digest Jim Lane April 12, 2011

Game changer, breakthrough, revolution, quantum leap. A lot of technologies arrive on the Digest’s doorstep wrapped in one of those descriptors, or another. Sometimes wrapped in all of them.


But what are technologies that would really rock the Bio World?


A number of discoveries are notable, however, by their absence. We see so much innovation in the fuel processing technologies, and in the genetics of crops. But what about the platform improvements in feedstock production and harvest?


There are a handful that would have catalytic impact, not only for their investors, but for a host of technologies and companies downstream that would see their fortunes irrevocably improved.

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