{"id":1903,"date":"2015-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-742\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:31:10","slug":"innovation-anthology-742","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2015\/12\/22\/innovation-anthology-742\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #742:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 742.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OakBio Inc is one of 24 companies funded through the Grand  Challenge competition sponsored by the Climate Change and Emissions  Management Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Challenge supports research to  significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions through new carbon  conversion technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Sefton is the President and Chief  Scientific Officer at OakBio in Sunnyvale, California. &nbsp;And his star  performers are &nbsp;super microbes. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BRIAN SEFTON: &nbsp;<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">If one  understands how plants take sunlight energy and CO2 from the atmosphere  and grow, our microbes use energy from hydrogen and they absorb the &nbsp;the  carbon dioxide &nbsp;and carbon monoxide as well as a number of other toxic  chemicals, which are in flue gas. &nbsp; And with the energy from hydrogen  and the carbon from the flue gas, our microbes are able to convert and  manufacture bioplastics and in this case with this grant, the main focus  was biofuel and petrochemical feedstock and butanol. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brian Sefton says OakBio is ready to move its microbes to Alberta for testing in the cement and petroleum industries.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Thanks today to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND EMISSIONS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccemc.ca\">Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/ian_CCEMC-B_RGB_FullName_logo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02015-12-22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Sefton of OakBio Inc outlines its efforts to convert waste CO2 into bioplastics and biofuels using microbes, thanks to the CCEMC&#8217;s Grand Challenge funding<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> (Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,66,43,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-change-and-emissions-management-corporation","category-international","category-life-sciences","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}