Green Tomorrow

Craig Venter is an interesting person. He seems to always be at the cutting edge of biotechnology: In 2001, he made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean’s biodiversity. Now he, with his firm Synthetic Genomics, is working on ways to produce energy with micro-organisms.

Still as ambitious as ever, he just announced at the TED conference (you can see Venter’s previous TED talk here, but his new one is not online yet): “We have modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry and becoming a major source of energy, we think we wil…