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From the paper in question[1] "carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol by an inorganic catalyst and then converted by enzymes first to three and six carbon sugar
by jarenmf 5y ago
From the paper in question[1]
"carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol by an inorganic catalyst and then converted by enzymes first to three and six carbon sugar units and then to polymeric starch. This artificial starch anabolic pathway relies on engineered recombinant enzymes from many different source organisms and can be tuned to produce amylose or amylopectin at excellent rates and efficiencies relative to other synthetic carbon fixation systems—and, depending on the metric"
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh4049 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh4049
- pacman2 5y agoGood idea for the wrong product. Does not make sense to make food out of it, at least not on earth. "carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol by an inorganic catalyst" The methanol can be used as fuel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_economy
- entee 5y agoThe catalyst is the part I'm most curious about. Carbon capture is a hard problem at scale. Once you have methanol, I'm not terribly surprised that you can convert it to other things enzymatically. Hard to evaluate without full text of paper though.