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Another question after looking over your site: could you start a side business looking into microorganism-based carbon sequestration? I know this is something that other people are looking at, but you seem to have a lot of experience in chemistry and bioengineering, and you specifically mentioned CO₂ capture as an incidental benefit of your production process.

If you had microorganisms that captured orders of magnitude more carbon from the atmosphere as part of their metabolism (or indeed just other enzymes that catalyzed other chemical processes that had that effect), maybe people would want to pay you to breed a lot of these organisms.