Let me be the first person on the internet to admit I did not know what I was talking about.

I understand the skepticism, and to be honest, reading the views critical of Venter was educational. Maybe he’s full of it. Consider me taken by the con-artist and perhaps newly liberated. But biology provides solutions to more problems than we even know exist.

The capability to customize bacteria could allow us to convert/store energy from many different sources. We have energy all around us – whether its dance floors or humans walking or cars heating up in parking lots. The problem is to harness it.

And, yes, this wouldn’t replace a nuke plant. But it gives you more sources and don’t more sources = more secure supply of energy? Isn’t that what we should pursue?