Technical Notes on Video:

Video length is 1:10:11.

John Durant, Director, MIT Museum, introduces the event, describes the Soap Box protocol, and then introduces the speaker.

At 3:59, David Berry begins.

At 19:20, Durant reads questions the audience has formulated, and then calls on individual audience members.

Questions include:
Is bio-engineered petroleum risk free, and what should people worry about?
What kind of sugars are used to produce the molecule?
Why make petroleum, potentially trapping us forever with a dirty fuel?
Why not produce hydrogen instead?
Do you partner with academia and how does that work?
Will you own the process; what is its IP status?
Are you concerned about adequate sugar supplies, sugar’s price, and the impact of biopetroleum at large scale on world food crops?