Corn, better as food or fuel?

September 19, 2007, 4:12pm PDT | Length: 00:06:52
At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Peter Hanschen, Partner with Morrison and Foerster leads a discussion with executives on the challenges bringing ethanol technologies to market as biofuel and whether the use of corn as fuel will disrupt the world's food supply. The panelists are: Robert Walsh, president at LS9; Glen Nedwin, chief scientist at Dyadic; John Melo, CEO at Amyris Biotechnologies; and Steven Perricone, CEO at BioFuelBox.
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