Abstract
Throughout its history, industrial microbiology has answered many challenges; food and beverage, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, biomaterials, fuels, and chemicals, often with billions of dollars of impact on markets and society. But these efforts pale in comparison to the challenge of planetary-scale carbon management, which must balance the circularity of a carbon economy with the sequestration of excess environmental carbon. Biorefineries, integrating carbon capture with diverse bioproduct markets, offer our best route to stabilizing an unbalanced global carbon cycle while powering a robust and equitable bioeconomy.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Frontiers in Industrial Microbiology |
Volume | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2024 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/JA-2700-90903
Keywords
- bioeconomy and circular economy
- biomass
- bioproducts and biofuels
- biorefinery
- carbon management