>> it is the beauty of this fibrous structure. saying we're there yet, maybe 80% of the way there but we're definitely not going to stop until you order chicken breast and our product and say, i can't tell the different difference. >> for aring tofu and veggie based products have seemed to satisfy but not the alternative. but none has seemed to satisfy their carnivore cravings. >> how do you produce an alternative protein that may in fact deliver more protein per unit while also trying to meet some of the cultural traditions and cultural products of protein? >> we are in the beyond meat tasting kitchen. here is where we do product development, we do recipe development. so now we're going to make fajitas. >> here we go. that's good. it's hard to tell the difference. >> even before i became involved as the entrepreneur, professionals at the university of missouri who are working on this, fu hun chez and hayward huff, truly brilliant guys, doing trial and error, simply of these through the heating and cooling process, about ten years

narrator: cellulosic material, or biomass, is basically the fibrous, woody, and generally inedible portions of plants. and it is the most plentiful biological material on earth. the challenge for nrel scientists and engineers like andy aden is to design cost-effective conversion plants that can create fuel from many different types of biomass. aden: there are lots of different types of biomass. there are agricultural residues, like corn stover or wheat straw, things that are currently left in the field after the grain has been harvested. there are wood types of feed stocks that are biomass -- wood chips like poplar for example. it's a very fast-growing tree, and you can potentially have plantaof this terial that can produce large amounts of biomass for fuel, all the way even to a prairie grass like switch grass. the benefits of this material is it's very drought-tolerant and you can get a lot more tonnage of this material off of an acre of land. so there are a lot of reasons and a lot of additional benefits for using biomass as a source of ethanol as opposed to just corn grain, one of which

becky quick spoke to tech entrepreneurs fancy hands founder ted roden and fibrous ceo miha kaufman on the new gig economy. >> very quickly, tell people exactly what it is. fancy hands. start off with that sglp fancy hands is a personal assistant service. for a flat fee per month we will do anything that can be done from a desk for you. >> call my cable company, make sure you change something there. put an order in for a car or for an airplane ticket. >> exactly. yes. >> what's the flat fee? >> it starts at $25 per month. >> not bad. tell us a bit about fiber. >> it is basically ebay for services. it allows people to offer their skills in the form of products to a global audience and the prices go between $5 and thousands of dollars. >> what's something people would do for $5 for me? >> well, usually it is very basic services. it could be personalized greeting card. it could be translation of a short paragraph or could be a small graphic design work. >> let me ask you both this. who is signing up to do this kind of work? are these people who have other jobs? are these people who can't

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narrator: cellulosic material, or biomass, is basically the fibrous, woody, and generally inedible portionslike corn stover or wheat straw, things that are currently left in the field after the grain has been harvested. there are wood types of feed stocks that are biomass -- wood chips like poplar, for example. it's a very fast-growing tree, and you can potentially have plantaons of this material that can produce large amounts of biomass for fuel, all the way even to a prairie grass like switcgrass. the benefits of this material is it's very drought-tolerant and you can get a lot more tonnage of this material off of an acre of land. so there are a lot of reasons and a lot of additional benefits for using biomass as a source of ethanol as opposed to just corn grain, one of which is there's a lot more of it out there, the second of which is you avoid the food-versus-fuel issues. the third potential benefit is to farmers in rural america because it adds additional markets for them to sell materials into. narrator: but there are many obstacles in creating ethanol from cellulosic material. throu

bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them, except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrousinal addiction. i never cleaned or dusted the room. empty ampoule boxes and garbage piled up to the ceiling. light and water long since turned off for nonpayment. i did absolutely nothing. i could look at the end of my shoe for eight hours. i was only roused to action when the hourglass of junk ran out." the words of william seward burroughs, one of my heroes. he came to tangier in 1953, shortly after shooting his wife to death in a drunken accident in mexico city. he was a heroin addict, a homosexual and an inspiration to those protohipsters who became known as the beats. burroughs had nothing about him that was a beat nick. he was a somewhat stuffy, well-dressed st. louis son of a good family gone wrong. he was also to my mind the greatest writer of the whole damn bunch. on the road, you can have it. his classic "naked lunch" was written here. a nonlinear, dark, dry humored searingly critical and satirical and profane masterpiece. burroughs was apparently high for much of the process