The Hollywood Hill Presents: The Race For New Fuels September 18, 2007
Los Angeles, California
The Race For New Fuels
with Frances Arnold, Founder, Gevo, Inc.
Fuel, fuel, fuel. Our world runs on it, and today's fuels are awfully dirty. We're in a race now to replace them - those from coal and gasoline - with clean, advanced biofuels and other renewable energy sources. Frances Arnold has been at the forefront of that race, leading a team at Caltech that specializes in synthetic biology - the reprogramming of bacteria DNA to create new 'super-bacteria' that eat organic materials like grass and trees, and convert them to biofuel. She has launched several cutting-edge start-up companies over the past decade, and her most recent one, Gevo, just received a high-profile investment from Virgin Fuels (Richard Branson), and Khosla Ventures (Vinod Khosla). Join us for a presentation on how reprogrammed bacteria are going to change your world.
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 - 7:30PM
Location TBD
Official Website: http://hhill.org
Added by klaxon on August 7, 2007