Innovation Anthology #742:
OakBio Inc is one of 24 companies funded through the Grand Challenge competition sponsored by the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation.
The Grand Challenge supports research to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions through new carbon conversion technologies.
Brian Sefton is the President and Chief Scientific Officer at OakBio in Sunnyvale, California. And his star performers are super microbes.
BRIAN SEFTON: If one understands how plants take sunlight energy and CO2 from the atmosphere and grow, our microbes use energy from hydrogen and they absorb the the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide as well as a number of other toxic chemicals, which are in flue gas. And with the energy from hydrogen and the carbon from the flue gas, our microbes are able to convert and manufacture bioplastics and in this case with this grant, the main focus was biofuel and petrochemical feedstock and butanol.
Brian Sefton says OakBio is ready to move its microbes to Alberta for testing in the cement and petroleum industries.
Thanks today to THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION.
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation
Program Date: 2015-12-22