August 22, 2018

  • Sugar, Light, And A New Type of Chemistry — What It May Take To Wean Us Off Fossil Fuels

    biolec-new-chemistry1In June, the U.S. Department of Energy made an announcement that seemed fairly banal — it set aside $100 million this year to fund 22 new Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) and renew several others. One of them, a new lab at Princeton University, is slated to receive almost $11 million over four years.

    But just past the surface, that announcement marked the start of a project that could prove to be revolutionary.

    A team of prominent scientists has banded together to answer scientific questions about energy and the environment that are currently impossible to solve. If the team succeeds, it will have discovered a way to power the world with plants and industrial waste, breaking us of our addiction to polluting fossil fuels. And it will have created an entirely new branch of science in the process.

    If the team succeeds, it will have discovered a way to power the world with plants and industrial waste.

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