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Main Doomer Fallacy
Re: Main Doomer Fallacy
by EnergyUnlimited » Sun 29 Aug 2010, 04:38:18
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All fine.
But EEStor was also trumpeted as a breakthrough...
Solar towers projects in Australia also were...
It seems to be plenty of similar projects popping out these days and fizzling out.
You see them as evidence of progress but I observe that up to date they are uniformly failing to deliver and so I prefer to view them as evidence of growing desperation.
Again, I do not expect bacterial based systems to do any materially better job in converting CO2 to hydrocarbons than algal systems are doing.
At best they will get something "as good".
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Re: Main Doomer Fallacy
by Carlhole » Sun 29 Aug 2010, 04:45:18
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All fine.
But EEStor was also trumpeted as a breakthrough...
EEstor was always just an internet rumor. It hasn't been recognized or won any awards. No one should believe anything about EEstor until they show the goods. They haven't. Joule has. So has Synthetic Genomics. So have many other bio-engineering companies. Genetic Engineering really IS a real science. It really IS a real business. There is every reason to believe GE has a very bright future ahead, chock full of discoveries and innovations.
Synthetic Life is here now. And this is all part of Gaia's evolutionary plan to wake up and smell the cosmos.
- Carlhole
Re: Main Doomer Fallacy
by Carlhole » Sun 29 Aug 2010, 04:54:59
DNA Factory Plans to Open Within 6 Months
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o what exactly is a synthetic biology “part”? The short answer is that biological parts are small snippets of DNA with basic, well-understood functions (e.g. the production of a certain protein). Building a microbe from scratch is no easy task, especially if you have to identify and characterize all of these building blocks yourself. That’s exactly what synthetic biologists have been doing – it costs millions of dollars and takes years of legwork.
Synthetic biology is an emerging field that combines biology and engineering to reconfigure DNA into desirable results, generally microorganisms that can be used to produce drugs, perform chemical reactions, or work as fuels. But because the field is so new, there haven’t yet been standards set for what works and what doesn’t. Characterizing these basic components (and providing them) will give a common engineering language for researchers working on very different problems. It will also make potential progress faster and cheaper.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o what exactly is a synthetic biology “part”? The short answer is that biological parts are small snippets of DNA with basic, well-understood functions (e.g. the production of a certain protein). Building a microbe from scratch is no easy task, especially if you have to identify and characterize all of these building blocks yourself. That’s exactly what synthetic biologists have been doing – it costs millions of dollars and takes years of legwork.
Synthetic biology is an emerging field that combines biology and engineering to reconfigure DNA into desirable results, generally microorganisms that can be used to produce drugs, perform chemical reactions, or work as fuels. But because the field is so new, there haven’t yet been standards set for what works and what doesn’t. Characterizing these basic components (and providing them) will give a common engineering language for researchers working on very different problems. It will also make potential progress faster and cheaper.
- Carlhole
