What are your thoughts on the sustainability of using corn syrup for chemical production--especially as this would compete with the food production system and corn production leads to GHG emissions and environmental damage? Like you mentioned in the comment, they would probably want to find a way to directly use CO2 (or lignocellulosic agricultural waste) as feedstock; I wonder if Solugen is working on enzymes/catalysts to power this process as well.
you say 'corn syrup, which is effectively a carbon sink'--- that is backwards-- corn syrup is their carbon SOURCE-- if/when they start getting their carbon from CO2, they won't need corn syrup anymore.
Very inspiring!
What are your thoughts on the sustainability of using corn syrup for chemical production--especially as this would compete with the food production system and corn production leads to GHG emissions and environmental damage? Like you mentioned in the comment, they would probably want to find a way to directly use CO2 (or lignocellulosic agricultural waste) as feedstock; I wonder if Solugen is working on enzymes/catalysts to power this process as well.
you say 'corn syrup, which is effectively a carbon sink'--- that is backwards-- corn syrup is their carbon SOURCE-- if/when they start getting their carbon from CO2, they won't need corn syrup anymore.