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A joyful series of toasts at the Synthetic Genomics Board dinner at Craig’s house last night, on the heels of the $600M algae deal with Exxon Mobil.

Venter’s breakthrough: continuous secretion of fuel from algae that consume C02 as their carbon source. (more from Reuters)

11 responses to “Microbial Celebration”

  1. And there you see them, busy writing down the future.

    Congratulations!!!

  2. This is World changing stuff. That said, I am not surprised to see Craig Venter and you, Steve, involved. Congrats.

  3. good to see Exxon Mobil in a diffent kind of "oil spill" 🙂

    … and enjoying the the fruits of an altogether tastier microbial by-product!

  4. I assume that bottle he’s holding is a filled with fresh ’09 vintage Algoleum (TM) that you are about to collectively consume???

    Rumors say it has amazing medicinal properties, like olive oil mixed with wheat-grass and penzoil 😉

    ps: Dr. V has good taste in boats and shacks.
    pps: on closer look its a bottle of Mr. Schuler’s Meteor…tres apropos!

  5. Yes – enjoyed from his vinyard (he is a fellow board member… he also has a huge solar installation – I need to find that photo)

    @Todd in the notes: yes! When I saw his ASU affiliation, I mentioned you, and he remembers you well.

    Alieness: with crayons

  6. oh, like in yer testimony! So right: "Internet used to be black and white, until Steve came with his crayons." |-)

  7. This is pretty fantastic stuff. Algae fuel, will have to do some reading up on their business/tech.

  8. Large size bottle, to match ego/personality and most everything about the photo. Should we pair the celebratory atmosphere with some pondering?

  9. @-fCh-: big problems require big thinkers

  10. I agree with you, aeroculus. Let’s see what the (energy) problem is: Too little supply, or too much consumption?

    As Craig is tackling half of the problem at best, is there room for even bigger thinking?

  11. @fCh: both. but the former is a difficult yet tractable problem (from scientific, engineering and economic fronts); changing behavior is far more complicated.

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