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BioCee, although proven, named a “Top Ten High Concept 2009″

Greentech Media published their list of the cleantech “Top Ten High Concepts 2009″, and BioCee is mentioned as #6 on the list. Thank you very much. Now: let’s make sure there’s no misunderstanding. BioCee’s technology — the bioreactor — is actually a proven technology for several applications. It’s only the new application, using two types of microorganisms for the production of fuel out of sunlight and CO2, that makes this a “high concept”.

“BioCee and the University of Minnesota wants to take sunlight, carbon dioxide and two organisms (cyanobacteria for sunlight capture and shewanella for metabolic transformation) to produce a liquid hydrocarbon. Coal and oil are indirect: sunlight and carbon dioxide create plant matter, but then geological forces are required to turn dead trees and microbes into a fuel. Think of it as microwave petroleum: no more slaving over the Permian basin for millions of years waiting for those hydrocarbons to be done.

An added plus: It creates a market for carbon dioxide and reduces the total amount that will exist in the atmosphere.”