Ask POET Episode 1 - How close is Cellulosic Ethanol?

[Shakespeare70]

Poet is a company that could solve the problems of our energy independence.

[DanFrederiksen]

while it seems a very appealing and romantic notion to have fuel grow out of the ground, the simple truth is that direct synthetic production from sunlight is much much better, circumventing the very inefficient and time consuming biological steps. as wondrous and untouchable in complexity as life is, we don't need self replicating self sustaining machines, we just need static machines that most cost and energy efficiently produce fuel from sunlight.

[poettv]

@DanFrederiksen

Ethanol actually is a type of solar energy. Crops and biomass used for ethanol get the energy they need in order to grow from sunlight. We are just harnessing that energy to make a clean, renewable liquid fuel for cars all across America.

[DanFrederiksen]

@poettv I know and my point stands.