>> masterman: right. >> stahl: craig masterman was marshall medoff's first hire, ten years ago.e's an m.i.t. graduate in chemistry. >> masterman: he hired me to build a lab. >> stahl: so he hired you to help improve what he was thinking in his head? >> masterman: that's correct. but i implement things. he thinks a lot, i implement a lot of things. and you'll run it at 25 mili ampa beam power. >> stahl: what masterman helped implement was medoff's novel idea of using these large blue machines, called electron accelerators, to break apart nature's chokehold on the valuable sugars inside plant life, or biomass. machines like these are typically used to strengthen materials such as wiring and cable. medoff's invention was to use the accelerator the opposite way: to break biomass apart. maybe you can tell us how the electron accelerator works? >> masterman: it's pretty simple. it's basically accelerated electricity. and so, what happens is, is that they get accelerated-- >> stahl: downward. >> masterman: downward, where the biomass is, and they ram into the biomass and rip it apart.

the election much of the country continues to be offline and we have our social media editor karl masterman with us karl tell us what's been happening in this of the internet basically went down just as these elections got underway it's still down as you mentioned but this goes beyond the internet the government also shut down s.m.s. services so no text messages in the country either and it also scrambled the signal for radio france international which is a major source of news in the country the internet shutdown watchdog called net blogs has been tracking the situation in the d.r. c. and here's what they found take a look at this map that really shows you the situation there so you can see those green dots represent internet outages and most of the disruptions are centered in urban areas so full blackouts in the two most populous cities the capital kinshasa and in lubumbashi reportedly internet providers in the d.r. see they say the. the government ordered them to cut off internet access and these are serious disruptions what do you make of this yeah i mean there's a couple of competing t