Jack Newman, PhD, Amyris Biotechnologies VP: "This was technology that was really great for the current application of making an anti-malarial drug and we said, great, pharmaceuticals, that's a wonderful model and then we realized, our market is in Africa and they make less than a dollar a day."
This made me a little angry. I mean, sure, they're a business. But did they have to make it sound like trying to help millions of people was a side-step to making a lot of money?
Not that I think their plan is a good one based on the information the article provided, but we shouldn't judge their calculations based on the water experiment. The article says that they used the demonstration "to sell the project to the government".
I imagine they followed up the experiment with a summary; that the volcano is a series of tubes that can be blocked if you put a lot of things into it.
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Not that I think their plan is a good one based on the information the article provided, but we shouldn't judge their calculations based on the water experiment. The article says that they used the demonstration "to sell the project to the government". I imagine they followed up the experiment with a summary; that the volcano is a series of tubes that can be blocked if you put a lot of things into it.