Comments on: Convergence of Bioenergy, Economic Vulnerability & Synthetic Genomics http://anthropos-lab.net/vss/2008/07/convergence-of-bioenergy-economic-vulnerability-synthetic-genomics/ An ARC Collaboration Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:11:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: scollier http://anthropos-lab.net/vss/2008/07/convergence-of-bioenergy-economic-vulnerability-synthetic-genomics/#comment-14077 scollier Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:04:48 +0000 http://anthropos-lab.net/vss/?p=212#comment-14077 Onur -- thanks for picking this up. Paul and others have been working on the synthetic genomics side of this, and another major, major project on synthetic production of biofuels is underway at Berkeley. As an aside: In the last two days the price of oil has dropped for a couple reasons, among them that the first major storm of this hurricane season apparently is not going to hit the Gulf of Mexico. Oil futures move wildly in relation to anticipated hits on the gulf, since this takes out a supply that is vital to US energy. So as you say, there is at one level nothing particularly novel about the link between weather and energy vulnerability. Onur — thanks for picking this up. Paul and others have been working on the synthetic genomics side of this, and another major, major project on synthetic production of biofuels is underway at Berkeley.

As an aside: In the last two days the price of oil has dropped for a couple reasons, among them that the first major storm of this hurricane season apparently is not going to hit the Gulf of Mexico. Oil futures move wildly in relation to anticipated hits on the gulf, since this takes out a supply that is vital to US energy. So as you say, there is at one level nothing particularly novel about the link between weather and energy vulnerability.

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