Nothing like the resources of a CERN or a DARPA or an IBM or a Dupont.

And DuPont has a major program with Statoil in Norway to capture and convert the methane from the gas fields there into useful products.

This was a simple sign error, because it's cheaper to save fuel than to buy fuel, as is well known to companies that do it all the time for example, Dupont, SD micro electronics.

We now live in a country where most of us don't decide, by and large, what we eat. We see big businesses, Monsanto and DuPont, who brought out Agent Orange and stain resistant carpet.

In the measure that you have the source code, as all of you know, you can change the source code, and you can reprogram life forms so that this little thingy becomes a vaccine, or this little thingy starts producing biomaterials, which is why DuPont is now growing a form of polyester that feels like silk in corn.

Similar success stories have played out across sectors. Since 2011, the US chemical company DuPont has invested 879 million in research and development of products with quantifiable environmental benefits it has recorded 2 billion in annual revenue from products that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and an additional 11.8 billion in revenue from renewable resources like wind and solar power.