letsdothis3 ago

More about Joule Unlimited http://en.rusnano.com/portfolio/companies/jouleunlimited

Joule Unlimited is a startup company operating at the interface between energy efficiency and biotechnology. The company is carrying out research into genetic engineering of cyanobacteria, designing and commercializing technology for the industrial production of ethanol and diesel fuel. Joule Unlimited was founded in 2007 by Flagship VentureLabs.

The production technology uses genetically modified bacteria as cellular factories. Purposeful changes are made to the genome of one species of cyanobacteria. The metabolism of the bacteria is altered in such a way that, instead of converting the carbon dioxide, which they absorb, into oxygen, the bacteria convert it into specific hydrocarbons (such as ethanol).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule_Unlimited

The company shut down after management was unable to raise money, which the CEO attributed to Hillary Clinton losing the 2016 Presidential election.

..Joule Unlimited claimed that its product would have been cost competitive with crude oil at $50 a barrel ($310/m3). The company also stated that its product could supply all of the transportation fuel for the United States from an area the size of the Texas panhandle.[6]

Joule Unlimited did not reveal the name of the organism that it used, although it acknowledged that the company had modified the organism.[7] In September, 2010, Joule received a patent for genetically altered bacterium.[8]

Joule Unlimited was founded in 2007 within Flagship VentureLabs by Noubar Afeyan and David Berry. In addition to its founders, Joule's Board of Directors included Graham Allison, Anatoly Chubais, Stelios Papadopoulos, Caroline Dorsa, and Ruben Vardanian.[9] Joule's Scientific Advisory Board includes synthetic biologists George M. Church and Jim Collins.

letsdothis3 ago

Safeway inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeway_Inc.

Safeway, Inc., is an American supermarket chain founded in 1915 by Marion Barton Skaggs. It is a subsidiary of Albertsons after being acquired by private equity investors led by Cerberus Capital Management in January 2015. Safeway's primary base of operations is in the western and central United States,[1] with some stores located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern Seaboard. The subsidiary is headquartered in Pleasanton, Alameda County, California, with its parent company headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

In 1926, Charles E. Merrill, the founder of the Merrill Lynch brokerage firm, saw an opportunity to consolidate the West Coast grocery industry. Towards this end, he purchased the 322-store Safeway chain of W.R.H. Weldon, who wished to exit retailing and concentrate on wholesale. Then, in June 1926, Merrill offered Skaggs either $7 million outright or $1.5 million plus 30,000 shares in the merged firm. Skaggs took the latter.[4] On July 1, 1926, Safeway merged with the 673 stores from Skaggs United Stores of Idaho and Skaggs Cash Stores of California. ...At the time of the merger, the company was headquartered in Reno, Nevada. In 1929, it was relocated to a former grocery warehouse in Oakland, California. Safeway headquarters remained there until the move to Pleasanton, California in 1996.

In 2001, Safeway acquired the family-owned Genuardi's chain, with locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Safeway also created the subsidiary Blackhawk Network, a prepaid and payments network, a card-based financial solutions company, and a provider of third-party prepaid cards.

derram ago

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letsdothis3 ago

Lol.

think- ago

Have you seen that the DM article about the avocado trade mentions the Knights Templar cartel - 'a quasi-religious death cult.'

https:// inews.co.uk/opinion/meghan-markle-daily-mail-avocado-on-toast-murder-drought-royals/

Probably not connected to our Knights Templars, but would be interesting to dig a bit - ...

letsdothis3 ago

Ah yes, I saw that and was going to include. Thanks for the reminder.

think- ago

np