Why the world needs more algae, not less.
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Plastic, fertilizer, fuel, even cow farts - algae can make all this more sustainable, and even capture carbon. Here’s why we’re on the brink of an algae revolution.
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Why algae is better than planting trees:
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Overview of history and types of algae:
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Algae reducing methane from cows:
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Carbon capture through sinking seaweed: www.sciencedir...
Thanks to James Wiess ( / jam_and_germs ) for sharing his microscopic algae images.
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After a comment from a viewer we'd like to clarify that for the sake of simplification our definition of algae includes photoautotrophic organisms like cyanobacteria. There are, however, attempts to develop a new definition of what the term "algae" actually means. Here's for a example an initiative, led by a plant-professor from the University of Cambridge, to change the nomenclature: www.what-are-algae.com/
You should have a facebook page where you can share this info. A lot of asians and africans are into facebook. This is gamechanging.
This was excellent! Liked your pace of delivering this information - looks like another top-priority way to avert ecological collapse. I knew we could do it : )
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seaweed isn't algae
I'm the viewer who emailed you. I'm so glad you didn't just ignore my email but actually investigated, clarified, and cared. Thank you!!
@@DDRWakaLaka I guess the Planet A staff decided to use the term seaweed in a wider sense. For the purpose if this video and the audience they want to reach to.
If they spend precious minutes to explain what is seaweed, alga and cyanobacteria, the audience might get bored
Man, that's like free solution to our global problem and yet, there's so little of it in the news. Glad you guys covered it.
And it's eatable! :-p
@@hiankun ....prophylactic medical edible....
I think they know solutions to all problems. They create problems so that they can sell solutions later. Don’t you think so? There is Indian invent fast charging battery yet where the technology today? Rumours has it big corporation buy the tech and bury it. Imagine if the tech was release, people will no longer buy powerbank
@@KIM-nc7ti its all crony capitalism. Mind you, communism isn't the answer yet this is worst kind of capitalism
They don't want to solve the problems they invent, their goal is to use these problems to find new ways to control the population.
I like this video because, biologists and volunteers are utilizing tech the RIGHT way; to help the environment
agreed, not creating false crisis to fear people into running around excited like their hair is on fire.
@@elb8284 there are so many videos like this but the alternatives to plastic are not gonna be used anytime soon commercially.
35 years ago, a fellow gardener (UK) told me he used seaweed on his allotment as his sole fertiliser. Collected it in bulk in his truck, washed it, dried it, dug it in or used it as a mulch around perennial crops. Excellent vegetables.
Whenever I go to the beach, if there's an excess of seaweed left high and dry on the shore, I do the same. It is good and I'm not surprised the UK has already started seeing a use for the Sargasson Algae.
As I am some distance from the beach and don't go there as often as I'd like, I have started using types of pondweed in the same way. If you get a vigorous type, you've got a great source of easily compostable algae to help build soil levels.
Doesnt it contains salt that could harm plants?
Using seaweed is a quite old practice. It's interesting to know that people still use it! And also use pondweed!
@@Alicegab300 Hence the washing....
@@lordnessa5893 They literally should use info like this in schools. They have a definite need for that.
Like sure, learn math too, but Learn more on what is imperative information. So math, ecology, sustainability!
I personally can not remember anything of what I learnt there other than history and all that, like unless the people did something to help us in the future who needs to learn about some ideas presidents and nonsense, right??
@@sannhetenskalseire8873 financial literacy is deliberately not taught in state schools 😢
we need more of such videos. and if there is a way to show these videos in more public places to spread awareness , the better. Its not that people dont want solutions, people are not aware of solutions. If it becomes easily available farmlands across the world can use it. A lot of countries are already into organic farming. knowledge of algae in farming needs to be promoted.
Except the most obvious solution. Reduce the worlds population. That will have a direct and immediate impact on climate change. But instead they promote policies that increase the global population at every turn.
@@brianlevine249 true. Each one of us can contribute to it consciously. I for instance always carry cloth bags for grocery and produce shopping. its similar to ziplock bags just that instead of ziplocks it has drawstrings. each bag is the capacity of 1 kilo for dry grocery like lentils and beans ect. for produce i have larger bags. the bags are made of muslin material which weighs almost nothing. I empty the contents to glass jars when I come back home, wash the cloth bags and keep them ready for my next grocery trip. I never buy more clothes or shoes than I actually wear. just 2 pairs of party wear shoes is my luxury !! Ive stopped using shampoo and conditioner for a long time and am experimenting on Enzyme water with natural ingredients like Shikakai and Reetha (soap bean and soapnuts) for laundry and dishwashing. Im trying not to use detergents unless its an emergency or an absolute necessary. no matter what companies want to sell, its ultimately our own conscience to follow or not follow them and do our bit.
@@buddhapiyao1315 But that's all stuff because you're here. Now let's add 3 more you next year. And 6 the following year. Pretty soon it no longer matters what you do. There's to many people.
@@brianlevine249 we just have to do our bit. its still a contribution nevertheless.
@Lori Anderson the world population is only expected to grow so much. The predictions are for 11 billion people by 2050. That's a lot, but thats expected to be the highest point we'll reach.
This channel is underrated. It needs more attention!
Thanks and help us spread the word :)!
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These companies need to go public and be more aggressive with their marketing efforts to really get this technology going. This has a lot of potential but most won’t go for it unless you begin showing higher profits or steal market share by utilizing a consumer base that wants to be more eco-friendly in a cheaper way.
Yes, I definitely agree. How many times do we see good ideas that could make a difference, perhaps even a significant difference - but never seem to see them get past a short video on RUclips?
@@debbiehenri345 I hardly ever did. So they need to. I would totally buy products like algae things and it be good if people start learning more about it so they can also tell the consumers after they learnt bcz I never knew about it before, just recently.
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Algae : Thank you, i will never forget you, i will fight for you
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Nice observation bud, i am still concerning about waterbeat development tbh
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I like this video because I am neither a PHD nor a young child and love short form science videos. Most science videos seem aimed at those other audiences.
Interesting perspective.
It's plastic you can eat, the future is bright. It's content like these that make tomorrow seem hopeful. Imagine being able to drink the soda and eat the can like an ice cream cone: amazing.
This is so cool to think about! Though that means the soda can would have to be sanitized
I am in the business of utilizing sea moss as a nutrient supplement yet also an advocate for growing large scale nurseries simply for the capture of carbon. Thanks to you and this amazing production I can send your video and share it to the masses as it explains with great clarity in a precise and enjoyable format. Thank you for your passionate quest and the gift of digestible information you are sharing with us all!
Sounds great, looks great. Lets do it. Plenty of ocean out there to farm this stuff
knowledgeable content
Lovely video❤
I love DW and its presentation.
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6:21 When the algae die, I imagine that they disintegrate and release the captured CO2 again. Wouldn't it be better to harvest the algae before they die and transform them into something useful before releasing the CO2 back into the ocean and atmosphere?
Yes, perhaps if you buried the algae deep underground or undersea and waited a few million years, the great pressure and geothermal heat would decompose the cell walls and help the hydrocarbons to separate from the water. Later you'd have to pump out the combustible part of the mixture, and the gases generated through the whole process, and you'd burn them for energy.
I think if the algae die and sink to the ground, they will in time form sediment which captures the CO2. A similar thing is happening for mosses in swamps. The carbon gets sequestered for hundreds of years, unless some human comes along and removes the water and the peat, then it will be all released at once🤪
Algae can be grown even faster then normal exterior conditions if you use a photobioreactor. Think glass tubes that suspend algae in moving water and give more light on each side. They would be a triple powerhouse of food production, oxygen production, and carbon sequestration.
lol, you were probably watching Pokémon the last time this article made the rounds. This is old stuff writers keep rehashing every 10 to 15 years. When I was a kid they promised by the mid 1990’s all cars would run off of bio fuel made from algae grown in huge glass tubes. It wasn’t new then either.
@@williambrandondavis6897 Biofuels in the 90's were being made with corn and didn't work out because they were taking up so much land any environmental gain would be moot. Algae while more efficient are still nowhere near as cheap as oil already in the ground which is why biofuels continue to fail. But he wasn't talking about fuel he was talking about using them for food and oxygen.
I thought about this for the entire month! Thanks for making this video. Algae plastic could be a game changer because it would not only reduce our emissions but also it would not use forever chemicals that are in pretty much every living being and it would be better for animals if this plastic was to end up in the ocean as opposed to conventional plastics. I hope the EU outlaws conventional plastics soon and makes algae plastics standard. There would only be advantages for both humankind and our environment in doing so.
Is it economic as well? Or has the potential to be in mass production?
History has shown that it's often a bad idea to outlaw one thing in favor of another. Take as an example electric vehicles, it sounds like a great idea at first glance, but it turns out that the electric grid (at least in Germany) simply can't handle more than one electric vehicle charging per street. It would be an absolute disaster if the government decided to make them a standard. While algae plastics sounds promising, legislating its use always comes with a risk.
It should definitely NOT be banned at least as long the algae plastic is only in biodegradable version. That's great for some uses (like packaging), but not for others (like construction) which needs to be durable.
I have fence and compost made from plastic, and the idea that those would rot like wood is appalling. I choose them specifically for their longevity.
@@tony16991 PHB is quite an easy bioplastic to make by bacterial fermentation as well. So yeah, we can make this stuff at large scale on land as well. The thing is, we have all these fancy petroleum based plastics that have very nice properties, and we like them to much to switch to one type of biodegradable plastic.
@@tony16991 People need to really stop to like put a price on things like, even if it is slightly expensive (which this does not sound at all) sounds like people does not want to try, like can you imagine if some government had a sick family members and he or she be like "How much does the treatment cost?" and after be like, no, do not give them then bcz that sounds expensive. Like, maybe you understand what meaning it has, people want to live or not is the question and this even helped in the great depression I think they said. That says it all. It helps!! That is what should only be relevant and yeah, sounds pretty affordable to me, if it is not controlled by sick Greedy people then it be good, bye.
Good explanation of an important story, thanks!
Very informative. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video that was great! Algae aquaculture truly needs to be put in the spotlight. Perhaps you could have talked about algae bioremediation as well, a way to clean wastewater with algae and capture waste nutrients before it reaches the ocean, to produce biomass and cleaner water, then return algae back to land to grow food and other bioproducts. Doing so at scale could fix the world's most important problem which is the pollution of our air and oceans.
Along with making buildings out of mass-timber, this is an area of climate action I'm deeply passionate about. I'm so happy to see this taking off.
lol, this has been going around for over 40 years. It’s not new and it’s gone nowhere fast.
using wood to build is literally changing the problem. If we start using more wood, there will be even more desflorestation...
@@BALSCOU It doesn't change the problem. Over 70% of farmland in the US is used for growing cattle feed. By using microalgae and seaweed, there is no need for that farmland anymore. With sustainable forests planted instead, it completely negates the emissions of concrete and steel need for conventional buildings.
@@firefox39693 and the cattles?
Algae if grown too much leads to eutrophication causing depletion of oxygen. This reduced level of oxygen in the ocean affects the aquatic life.
What they didnt tell you is that oxygen was toxic for the organisms back then and because of the advantage these beings had with photosyntesis, they were the reason for the first mass extinction
Use Cyanobacteria to terraform Venus. Change it as best we can to survive in a Venusian environment then dump it there and let it do what it does.
I think nations like China and USA instead of beating their chests on who has the most money or defence power. They should fight climate change and compete in saving the world. Then for these initiatives finding funding would be easy
China's been doing reforestation yey! 🙈 They're both great countries. I hope they can make up and stop their lovers quarrel! :>>>
Had to rewind over many parts to wrap my head around what was being said.
Awesome video! Love the channel guys 🙌 as well as the links above, it would be awesome if in future you could include links to companies that are making headway with these initiatives so we can support them
More people need to see this
All of my life, science teachers told me that algae was bad. Now I wonder what the heck, thank you DW for shedding light onto this matter
Exactly. I can not remember what I learnt about it actually, but somehow it seems to be similar, but like I said I can not even remember. It also depends on the teachers I guess. Barely remember my school days. Even if it was not thaaat long ago. Point is, many "teachers" are useless, some does not want the kids to even learn I bet. They just there for Other reasons that I have no idea about. Some though I know why they there, looking for easy prey, so. They need sane teachers. Sustainability is important. Vital.
i love this video so much!! i knew about how it stopped methane production in livestock but i didn’t know about all this!!
also are sea weed snacks okay to eat? i have stayed away from them because of the warnings of them containing carcinogens..
its staple in asia and asians have highest population
Certain cyanobacteria can synthesize a small amount of 'Astaxanthin'. Something that helps curb liver disease. So that is another plus.
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Haha what if we just created the largest manmade algae bloom in the ocean 😍
Unfortunately, sinking macro algae also removes their precious nutrients. Far better as fertilizer to fight deserts, instead of sinking and sequestering our last phosphorus :/
exactly. These algae blooms in the gulf of mexico should be harvested for their phosphorus content and be used as fertilizer.
DW Planet A, thank you for this important information. Mother Earth provides us with all the solutions to our problems for which we are accountable, that's why we should love, protect, and take good care of our home, our planet. Mother Earth is amazing.
Thank you!
Solution is they implementation needs to be done. Funding up to us all now or nave. Thank DW 🙏 keep it up great content and fact 🥰
Super cool story!
I am pursuing MSc in Biotechnology at Madurai Kamaraj University. I am also working on an algae project to produce a low-cost high-value product for agriculture. Same as the problem you mention, In India government also spent money to remove macro and microalgae but the high nutrition value we can use as for production of high value.
Thanks for sharing the video on the algae topic. @DM Planet A
Think about how many feet of topsoil you can fit in your backyard cut that about 50% and that's how much carbon you can capture all by yourself metric tons just in your backyard in a couple feet of topsoil layer mulch layer after layer until you have a thick deep layer of black soil that's how you change climate change in your own home and capture carbon instead of reduced emissions
Man this is amazing we need to produce so much of this and get going on this
Literally trillions of dollars can be made if you really understand this process, in my opinion. If you could use the excess fertilizers in water to grow food, use beneficial seaweed to feed fish and provide habitat, excellent compost for sale, aquatic tourism, fish and wildlife funding... The list literally goes on and on.
8 minutes of more teaching than school in a week.
the key question is that we need to learn how to effectively utilise seaweed.
I not only liked your video, I loved it. Made me think of a young congress member mentioned getting rid of the farting cows. But we might need more. Alan Savory is working on holistic land management where livestock helps the soil and the growth of grasslands and food crops. Using algae for fertilizer and plastics looks very good. We can do things better. Why do we not hear more about this?
Can anyone recommend a type of algae to grow in the tropical areas?
The good news about solving environmental issues instead of dystopian scenarios? It is so rare that it looks like fake news.
Great video. Sub well deserved
Algae makes good gummy bears.
The microalgae sink a lot better with marine snow than the macroalgae do. Ocean fertilization carbon sequestration needs to get a lot more attention.
Yup
You missed out on mentioning that feeding seaweed to livestock has mostly been a failure due to gsatrointestinal issues that the cattle experience
Where's your proof that that is the case here?
Note that this particular study uses a particular species of seaweed and they only supplement the cattle's regular feed with it - not feed the cattle seaweed exclusively.
@@tjslam26 anything you eat will eventually come out in the form of poop though, so feeding the cow algae won't make the carbon it capture magically disappear, it just get transformed. That's why combating global warming is hard, because we're literally taking oil/coal from deep underground and burning them for energy, thus releasing carbon to the atmosphere.
@@SandLion you have no clue how intestines work, food doesn't magically get transformed into shit
@@JochemVO98 ? And they didn't say it magically transformed, they say the opposite. Also carbon always transforming, they didn't say anything wrong
@@SandLion i thinks they say reduce methane gas that out from cow 87%, they dont say the carbon magically gone,
Excelente material😊 para uso
Precisamos agora de pesquisa para tornar as Algas aplicáveis na prática para a população.
All the sargassum problems in the Gulf of Mexico originated after the BP oil spill in the Gulf in 2010.
British Petroleum dissolved how the oil looked on the surface but the macronutrients and the other oil constituents and byproducts remain abundantly there.
I think you can grow algae really easily by taking a bowl, cup, container or whatever, fill it with freshwater (drinking water) and leave it outside it indirect sunlight. Take some detritus (dead leaves and such) and put a few in, and in a few days you might see some algae!
The algae in my bathroom tried to kill me though.
Erm... Our problem is not CARBON. it's METHANE!
It is made by carbon hahahha
havent watched the vid yet, but, too much algae in smaller water sources like lakes is pretty bad for the aquatic environment
Jadi jika Anda menghapus sesuatu, itu perlu diseimbangkan dengan atmosfer lagi"
Title is misleading, would you want more cyanobacteria and green algae in your drinking, fishing, and swimming waters? Get your facts straight on the pros, cons, and ecology of algae.
2% of the ocean sounds small at first, but then you realise that it's 7M sq. km, so like 2x more than the entire surface of the USA. It's a lot. "some funding" will not help there
always blame on meat or cows... better try to solve immediate problem : fossil fuel
ruminant today not much more than 200 years ago when bison count almost 100mils, elephant in africa and asia more than 25mils so dont contribute much,beside methane from cows are close cyclic system - methane in air >break to co2 >plants > cow > methane. Industrial agriculture today, pesticide, herbicide (most come petrochem) kills more animals than ever
Thank you so much DW. Great video and solution.
great video, ty
Amazing, we need more innovations like this that are actually put into place. We can save this beautiful planet and are species too. More algae please
Itu akan segera berubah, karena menggunakan alga sebagai pakan ternak, pupuk, dan bioplastik juga mengalihkan emisi dari industri pencemar
doesn't more algae (algae blooms) especially the algae that is being sinked, can cause dead zones which is harmful for the ecosystem?
Instead of utilizing sargassum for carbon sequestration by bailing it and sinking it to the ocean floor, I believe that it could be better utilized via the process of hydrothermal carbonization which provides many alternative uses such as displacing fossil fuel in cement cintering as well as being able to use the biochar product to displace sand and cement in concrete for long term sequestration.
I love this video. Could you make an episode on scientific dissemination and include queer climate activists like Pattie Gonia? she's fierce and would love to help catch attention on your projects to a whole new audience.
If the limiting factor is funding, someone should set up a donation website. If this topic gets shared a lot, even small amounts of money spent by a lot of people could make a change!
Except for toxic algae which kills peoples dogs when they swim in it. Its not all good stuff. Ive seen tens of thousands of dead fish wash up on lake shores because of algae and if you happen to live near this, its extremely unpleasant to say the very least.
algae and seaweed are the same??? You were showing a muslim lady harvesting seaweed and some hands with bunch of seaweeds. Algae isn't seaweed
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The thing is if you want to do this in the oceans on the scale it would make a difference you would be killing all life in the oceans. This isn't a process that we can use to help climate change unless we want to fertilise the oceans and by effect killing most of marine life. Useful for bio plastics but don't assume that because they capture carbon dioxide that are persee good for the ecosystem (in huge quantities.
You should have a facebook page where you can share this info. A lot of asians and africans are into facebook. This is gamechanging.
Underrated video! I saw this video and thought their would be a million+ views, and yet almost a month after it released only 5k views! I will share this to friends!
Many thanks!
@@DWPlanetA Sure! I completely support this channel as it brings up problems everyone needs to solve! Enjoy a new subscriber (:
I like she specifies more is not less
again another deceiver here. You didn't know what actually happened even two thousand years ago.
Thanks for making the video on the topic. Looking forward to more.
Seaweed in the ocean and bamboo on all unused land - and an end to the insane terror war - would make us carbon neutral in no time.
DW is going great and the video you upload every Friday is awesome
Algae is good if managed well, too much algae in a lake for example can be deadly for the fishes that blocks the sunlight mhm
We need more non-cape heroes like algae or vultures to save the planet. There are plenty of creatures which we don’t recognize that they are sustaining the Earth one way or another
Always remember what Elon Musk says. "Designe is easy, manufacturing is hard"
This was supposed to be a big thing 10y ago.
What happened?
Stop talking carbon and start talking money.
such logic is a common sense started way back then when humans started mass produce things, not necessarily Elon
@@electronresonator8882 but looks like people keep forgetting It as you see in this video. It's all wonderful in an ideal world but, in the real world, they just can't make It because those solutions aren't profitable at this state. People need to first make something financially interesting and only after that about how this something can save us from whatever
Great video, make more about zargazo, I live in Puerto Rico and I am interested in options for handled it
I like it. I am working on same concept but for different purposes.
Whether it is farmed or not, algae will grow in areas of stagnation.
Many people are growing tomatoes and other things at home. It would be great to come up with something we could grow at home and eat it.
Alright, everyone let's stand tougether. This video needs to get as many views as possible as this is a genius idea
I wish that I could work at an algae farm in my area. I would try to start my own algae farm, but I am not a land owner.
Am I missing something? In the video you said that seaweed is choking sea life but then you also say that growing more and sinking even more is good. Why isn't that going to chock seas life even more??
That was when they mentioned one version of the seaweed, but just like animals and trees there is surely Many versions of it, so.
@@sannhetenskalseire8873 so explain why one does and the other does not
@@cmichaels9544 bcz they are different versions seaweed??
How about my aquarium algaes? Beard algae, hair algae, blue green algae, brown algaes lol
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Most people like sushi, this should be an ad for what you just ate...
Such an informative video and channel. I am glad i found your channel keep up the good work.
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But for real pretty cool.
So fascinating! Thanks for sharing this information, keep it up!
Great documentary! I only have one criticism which is the pronunciation of Jorge Vega Matos' name. I am pretty sure he is Portuguese since he has the PSD symbol in the back (a Portuguese political party). If he is, his name is read similarly to George.
I hope this gets super popular, you usually don't hear about these things!
There's always some seaweed in my household. It just tastes so good...except for the kelp. It has no taste, but it's healthy and chewy.
This video is terrific-fascinating and encouraging. More people need to see it and rally
Awesome video!
Congrats 👏👏👏
Then why people hate the presence of algae in their fish aquarium if it's job is to absorb CO2 and give off oxygen? In fact people should be happy if there is algae in their aquarium because they won't be needing air pump anymore to oxygenate the water.
Becuase it's ugly.also a lot of algae means something is wrong with the water like to much nuititreints so it often gets blamed for killing fish.
Filters aren't for oxygnating the water.they exsit so the beneficial bacteria that breaks down fish waste into less harmful substances has a lot of water flow.
Excellent video! The planet really needs to implement these carbon capture solutions. Thanks.
Hey, really nice information, I am from India, can you guys help in home to contact regarding this industry/production/process
I would like to inititate this india too