Editorial: Editors’ showcase: fuels and chemicals

Journal Article · Thu Sep 05 00:00:00 UTC 2024 · Frontiers in Industrial Microbiology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/finmi.2024.1476481 · OSTI ID:2522737

Decker, Stephen R. ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

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.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 2522737
• Report Number(s): NREL/JA--2700-90903; MainId:92681; UUID:85e96396-c1a4-43ad-9c70-c6b86a2562f8; MainAdminId:73391
• Journal Information: Frontiers in Industrial Microbiology, Journal Name: Frontiers in Industrial Microbiology Vol. 2; ISSN 2813-7809
• Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.Copyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English