@@gangsterman5590 gotta admit it's more of a metaphorical bubble - and a supremely unhealthy one. Basically tuning out everything thats unpleasant, getting high and chilling
@@erstwhilegrubstake The US has plenty of oil, Israeli funded Eco groups prevent us from accessing our own oil, making us dependent on the Middle East and Israeli politics.
It seems the question has shifted over time from "Oil is running out, how do we make more?" to "The planet is dying, how can we do useful work without killing the planet more?"
Yep, that’s what shale/fracking (and other discoveries/advancements) did; it moved the conversation from “Peak Oil” to “So we *can* keep using this stuff, but *should* we?”
What are you growing? Do you know if there are any algae or biological compound that would be good for carbon sequestration? Something denser than water with low nutritional value that quickly sinks to the bottom of the ocean? Some algae poop that would be great for sequestering CO2?
@@dejayrezme8617 I started with spirulina and c. Vulgaris, but recent have been fascinated by c. rein. I am definitely no expert in this field, but most of them have the highest nutritional value among all foods due to high lipid/protein composition, while such composition can also be altered by altering environment (tracer minerals, light spectrum and other factors). For carbon sequestration in nature in a meaningful scale, you will need to scale up enormously. Collecting the biomass efficiently is a problem too, they are like extremely efficient trees in micrometers.
@@CkT1701 Thanks that's interesting. I want to get into that too. I've been wondering if you could use double glazed windows as "algae solar panels" to grow food. Like a slim greenhouse you put on the roof of your house. About the carbon sequestration, yeah I figure that is a tricky question. Most carbon is apparently sequestered with marine snow, permanently removing it. So I've been wondering if that could be improved in a way that is easily scaleable. Just have some sort of autonomous "sea tractor" to fertilize and monitor growth and they just poop carbon to the bottom of the ocean.
@@dejayrezme8617 there are studies that used algae plastic bags that float around in costal areas. The key is cost and scalability I think. I also read there are studies that focus on naturally grow marine algae in mass but then it was later determined that it is not effective enough to solve the co2 problem as of now. But again it all boils down to innovation and science. Maybe we crack the genetic code of some species to allow higher production, or be it we crack photosynthesis and develop efficient direct carbon capturing.
@@CkT1701 Yeah I don't know enough and am just speculation. I've read a bit about iron fertilization and understand it's not a silver bullet. So you'd need to somehow tweak genetic codes to somehow sequester "pure carbon" or carbohydrates but not the minerals and elements so they remain at the surface to be recycled. From what I understand vast stretches of the ocean are basically deserts with little marine growth because of lack of fertilizer. But if you could harvest some of the 70% of the planets surface for photosynthesis with algae that are like a "self assembly nanobot" that might be the best or only way.
I've been culturing 7 species of algae for about 2 years now and one of my biggest personal goals is to build a refinery by the end of this year. I've already been practicing published deprivation methods with Nannochloropsis and think I may at least have that part down right.
@@orue5499 It's physically removing oils from algae in this context. Typically uses ultrasonic aggregation and later stages can heat, dehydrate and pulverize, etc but that depends on the build budget and engineering skills
@@VectorNodes Can I ask what major you have? I want to work with algae in cultivation culture hopefully for biofuels but I am going to a biologist ( my school does not have microbiology major.) Also any information or tips would be appreciated. Good luck building a refinery.
@@soup5948 I'm formally uneducated. I have learned everything I know about engineering and science from library books and the internet. There are a lot of papers on refining specifically Nannochloropsis and they're mostly jet fuels but they explain lighting and nutrient control conditions well.
"Do not think this will be easy. Do not think it will require only a few things to alter the course that humanity is currently on. Do not think there are easy and basic solutions. There are a thousand solutions that will be needed, and you only have a few. You will have to find the others, and it will take great human effort and collaboration to make this possible." "You are living in a global emergency. Do not think this will not affect you and your life profoundly and completely." - from 'The New World' by Marshall Vian Summers
*This reminds me of the time I finally convinced my significant rotifer that algae was the fuel of the future!* *Naturally, I was really into algae cars, and settled on a brand new 2021 Trentepohlia (or Trentla for short). Very good acceleration on the starting ribosome strip, and impressive mileage through the microbial fluid zones!* *Unfortunately it exceeded our budget vacuoles, so we had to sell it to a local cell-car dealer. But oh my, I shall never forget what a ride it was!*
I think algae biofuels are still our best option when it comes to transitioning to all electric for vehicles. There's been more than a century of innovation in the world of combustion engines, and all that advancement isn't going away overnight. All electric is inevitable, but people aren't going to get rid of their combustion engines without a fight, and trying to completely phase them out is both impractical and infeasible.
Whats interesting is that back in 2008 I wrote a term paper on Algae and how they can be used for biofuels. Its amazingly interesting and I would suggest that anyone reading this comment look up the book by David Blume: Alcohol Can Be A Gas. It proposes ways that Algae can be more easily formed into alcohol, which can be burned in modern engines with nothing more than a mere computer tune. We don't need to necessarily turn them into crude oil to burn them.
@@joshuastrickland3770 That sounds like some top notch experimentation. "The effects of Stimulant Medications on Botryococcus: How Florida Man can Power the Future with his Meth Lab."
Random strange question.... Have you guys considered adding a modular system that attaches to the xyz axes to have automated control. Tied in with an image recognition system you could set it to follow a microbe and you could record its entire life. It should be possible with NodeRed or Codesys and Open CV. It could all run on a Raspberry Pi, a Beaglebone Black etc.
I'd be lying if I didn't occasionally daydream about being a tardigrade or rotifer or some other microcritter, incapable of thought, and thus, worry. I blame this channel, you make it look so relaxing.
One of the most important advantage of algae, is they can grow on industrial waste water and convert the wastewater into fresh water. This means one of the major issues of biofuel (water negative source of energy) can be solved through this quality of algae.
I listen to a podcast called the Talking Biotech Podcast. They had an interesting interview recently with someone working with algae-derived oils with the end goal being biodegradable plastics for things like flip-flops. The scientist went over their use for biofuels, too, and how the price issue made them unable to compete, but he also said that he estimated the price per barrel would be about $100 if they scaled up with current technology, IIRC.
for real, we need a channel like this on brazil, most of people here does not understand english, for lucky i understand a little bit, but i would stay more confortable if the content was on my language
This reminds me of a paper I wrote in HS about how we could use phytoplankton to help combat pollution. Not exactly an academic masterpiece but it was a fun look into learning about alternatives using these tiny but large parts of our world.
Algae is a potentially cheaper version of solar panels with a cheaper and denser way to store the energy it produces. Algal oil is also a terrific source of ω-3 fatty acids! The bio-available kind too!
I once contemplated making biofuel from algae to make a few bucks - but the extraction process required too much energy and jacked up the cost too high. Making gobs of algae is pretty easy though, and that process sinks a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Ever since I understood the origin of mitochondria, i've wondered if we couldn't perhaps do something similar: engineer a microbe that devotes its entire existence to energy production so that we can harvest the energy for ourselves. Like a battery that naturally recharges itself over time or something. If evolution can do it, surely we can mimic it, right?
@@limiv5272 If the lipids produced are shed as droplets, it's their waste product, not an energy reserve. It amazes me that pretty much all animal life is reliant on the oxygen created by photosynthesising creatures like cyanobacteria and algae 2.2B years ago. That our species has managed to consume so much of these eons of distilled solar energy in a couple of hundred years says a lot about humans gluttony.
@@jimurrata6785 You brought up a good point, if the fat droplets were for energy storage the cells wouldn't just release them. According to my short google search, they make a lipid biofilm. That sounds very cool
"...and growing algae does not come with a manual.." I guess you guys never had any fish tanks. Leave the lights on steady for a week and I'll have a few ounces for ya. Wet weight. 🤣
Are we not gonna talk about the fact that every shot was at 630x magnification with a scale bar of 31 micrometres? Is there a treasure hunt afoot? Is this a clue?
someone out to try and just throw wood in a buried hole to make oil. Digging up the garden I noticed that 3 feet down ANY wood had carbonized into charcoal. The remaining key is to use pressure gradients(different size rocks) to oxidize the mass inside the various layers of shale. Lastly, the hydro source is likely just underground water being split in a mechanism akin to an aspirator pump... where the jet is pointing upwards and being driven by evaporation... random thoughts ... it's probably just a fantasy tho ...
Last I heard, some lipid (oil intensive) algae thus far lab developed, hybridized(?), have been able to attain almost 90% lipid content. In consumer-speak that means the algae cell is almost 90% vegetable oil. Algae grows fast, isn't picky about the water quality (can be free sewer facility discharge effluent water and the waste CO2 from those facilities) if grown for fuels. Isn't too picky about its neighborhood (location). Does need sunlight, CO2, and proper lighting if there's nighttime operation. We can do algae biocrude probably easier, cheaper, than bringing fossil crude from halfway around the world, interfering with global politics for that reason etc.. And it brings the "oil industry" and those jobs home to the USA, in terms of providing energy related science/technology jobs regionally here in the USA!! Like they say: "We need to be the change." Btw.. the oxygen gas and sludge byproduct from algae biocrude production are also valuable commodities.
Keep in mind, algae doesn't require agricultural/food-grade cropland quality potable water. For algae biocrude production, since we're not going to be eating the biocrude fuels, non-potable water would probably work just fine. Same with the land-use location. Doesn't need to be expensive real estate or food cropland. Any land location that gets some reasonable sunlight. My thinking is that some of this information is biased against economic aspects of fuel algae production. I think they must've used Perrier for the water. Did not consider availability of nuisance, byproduct (waste) CO2, which is abundant, just has lots of protectionist laws that impede use/research as a commodity of value, rather it's usually just "by law" vented to the atmosphere or some non-economically threatening disposal mechanism. Similarly top-dollar was probably paid for tanks of CO2 from existing for-profit sources..
2:39 Also a thing that I think already a longer time about. Well, first off, "off the shelf" / garden variety algae (probably) won't cut the mustard. As the C3 photosynthesis process is very inefficient. We need an alga ... do we really need an alga? Isn't (in a technical application like this) a chloroplast more efficient? Well, we need an organism that takes in the nutrients provided, including sunlight, and excretes oil, with an efficient rate as high as possible. It does not being able to fight off any virus nor other organism. Protection from mutations would come in handy, though. While I would love to, I'll have to leave the details to people way smarter than I am.
Isn't algae the thing that is currently generating most of the O2 in the planet? If that is so, then maybe it would be a bad idea having people using them as fuel
Clean burning Carbon Negative Algae Bio Fuel would of been well established in the US ( and elsewhere) 8-10 years ago if it wasn’t for Fracking. That artificially brought Oil prices right down, just at the time when Algae growers in the US were preparing to scale up for fuel production!
God: **designs humans to be capable of complex thoughts and forms of self expression and entertainment** Humans: I wish I were a microbe God: **surprised Pikachu face**
Cool to learn about! Hopefully we won't need them to fuel ICE vehicles by the time they are at cost parity... I'd worry some company may try to claim it as greener/cleaner to burn because of the source.
it may not become a fuel source at scale but i imagine it will flourish as a cottage industry because its so simple. people will begin producing their own biodiesel and some of that feed stock will be algae. also, the byproduct is basically pig and chicken feed so we all know who is going to be capitalizing on that
why not just recapture carbon from the atmosphere and make fuel from that? The excess waste heat from a Thorium nuclear reactor could easily do this task.
I thought the point of renewables was to stop producing our energy by burning oil--which produces co2 and other green house gases. Wouldn't burning oil produced by Algae just perpetuate that problem?
Is there a biological compound or hydrocarbon that algae could produce that is denser than water and would quickly sink to the sea floor? Some sort of carbon sequestering poop? Ideally something that only contains carbon and hydrogen and not other stuff needed to continue the cycle of life, as not to starve the ecosystem of minerals or iron. Also ideally something with low nutritional value that won't get eaten and will release the carbon again, but keep it on the seafloor instead. Some kind of biological polymer? Something like cellulose or chitin?
The quality of footage you're capturing and presenting here just keeps getting better. This is exceedingly professional footage.
Yesss! Can't wait to start my setup🙌
Jokes on you, I already chill out in a bubble of my own making when things get tough
You can’t just drop this and not give us an explanation
@@gangsterman5590 gotta admit it's more of a metaphorical bubble - and a supremely unhealthy one. Basically tuning out everything thats unpleasant, getting high and chilling
Me too :D
Isn't that what the whole world been doing for the last 9 months?
You mean one of those tumblers for kids?
Algae has Oil:
USA: I hear somebody needs some freedom.
They want you to think wars are for oil, but they are actually for Israel.
@@BikingVikingHH Why not both?
@@erstwhilegrubstake The US has plenty of oil, Israeli funded Eco groups prevent us from accessing our own oil, making us dependent on the Middle East and Israeli politics.
I have put on my tinfoil hat, please continue...
@@mikecook3546 Does it fit well?
It seems the question has shifted over time from "Oil is running out, how do we make more?" to "The planet is dying, how can we do useful work without killing the planet more?"
Cool thing about algae grown biofuels is they have the chance to be carbon negative, which means reversing some of the damage done by climate change
Yep, that’s what shale/fracking (and other discoveries/advancements) did; it moved the conversation from “Peak Oil” to “So we *can* keep using this stuff, but *should* we?”
@@Randomgen77
I doubt fracking is a long term solution. It's like scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Because of this channel I now have a self made Photobioreactor, and learnt so much from the few algae species I purchased online.
What are you growing?
Do you know if there are any algae or biological compound that would be good for carbon sequestration? Something denser than water with low nutritional value that quickly sinks to the bottom of the ocean? Some algae poop that would be great for sequestering CO2?
@@dejayrezme8617 I started with spirulina and c. Vulgaris, but recent have been fascinated by c. rein. I am definitely no expert in this field, but most of them have the highest nutritional value among all foods due to high lipid/protein composition, while such composition can also be altered by altering environment (tracer minerals, light spectrum and other factors). For carbon sequestration in nature in a meaningful scale, you will need to scale up enormously. Collecting the biomass efficiently is a problem too, they are like extremely efficient trees in micrometers.
@@CkT1701 Thanks that's interesting. I want to get into that too. I've been wondering if you could use double glazed windows as "algae solar panels" to grow food. Like a slim greenhouse you put on the roof of your house.
About the carbon sequestration, yeah I figure that is a tricky question. Most carbon is apparently sequestered with marine snow, permanently removing it. So I've been wondering if that could be improved in a way that is easily scaleable. Just have some sort of autonomous "sea tractor" to fertilize and monitor growth and they just poop carbon to the bottom of the ocean.
@@dejayrezme8617 there are studies that used algae plastic bags that float around in costal areas. The key is cost and scalability I think. I also read there are studies that focus on naturally grow marine algae in mass but then it was later determined that it is not effective enough to solve the co2 problem as of now. But again it all boils down to innovation and science. Maybe we crack the genetic code of some species to allow higher production, or be it we crack photosynthesis and develop efficient direct carbon capturing.
@@CkT1701 Yeah I don't know enough and am just speculation.
I've read a bit about iron fertilization and understand it's not a silver bullet.
So you'd need to somehow tweak genetic codes to somehow sequester "pure carbon" or carbohydrates but not the minerals and elements so they remain at the surface to be recycled.
From what I understand vast stretches of the ocean are basically deserts with little marine growth because of lack of fertilizer. But if you could harvest some of the 70% of the planets surface for photosynthesis with algae that are like a "self assembly nanobot" that might be the best or only way.
I've been culturing 7 species of algae for about 2 years now and one of my biggest personal goals is to build a refinery by the end of this year. I've already been practicing published deprivation methods with Nannochloropsis and think I may at least have that part down right.
i know very VERY VERY like EXTREMELY basic knowledge of microbes and microscopes and stuff, uh whats a refinery in this context? what does it do?
@@orue5499 It's physically removing oils from algae in this context. Typically uses ultrasonic aggregation and later stages can heat, dehydrate and pulverize, etc but that depends on the build budget and engineering skills
@@VectorNodes okay, thanks for the info mate
@@VectorNodes Can I ask what major you have? I want to work with algae in cultivation culture hopefully for biofuels but I am going to a biologist ( my school does not have microbiology major.) Also any information or tips would be appreciated. Good luck building a refinery.
@@soup5948 I'm formally uneducated. I have learned everything I know about engineering and science from library books and the internet. There are a lot of papers on refining specifically Nannochloropsis and they're mostly jet fuels but they explain lighting and nutrient control conditions well.
"Do not think this will be easy. Do not think it will require only a few things to alter the course that humanity is currently on. Do not think there are easy and basic solutions. There are a thousand solutions that will be needed, and you only have a few. You will have to find the others, and it will take great human effort and collaboration to make this possible."
"You are living in a global emergency. Do not think this will not affect you and your life profoundly and completely."
- from 'The New World' by Marshall Vian Summers
Prescience, or just a man who paid attention to the human condition?
Thank you.
*This reminds me of the time I finally convinced my significant rotifer that algae was the fuel of the future!*
*Naturally, I was really into algae cars, and settled on a brand new 2021 Trentepohlia (or Trentla for short). Very good acceleration on the starting ribosome strip, and impressive mileage through the microbial fluid zones!*
*Unfortunately it exceeded our budget vacuoles, so we had to sell it to a local cell-car dealer. But oh my, I shall never forget what a ride it was!*
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘕𝘔𝘗𝘚 (𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥)?
@@arocr5735 *0 to 60 NMPS in 1.6 seconds!*
Our favorite boi is back after having not seen you for a past few videos. We thought you might have gotten in an accident with a heliozoan or stentor.
@@GordonFreechmen He did. That's why you'll be seeing me as well from now on. Time to go hunt some Paramecium!
No doubt you are living your best life.
News tomorrow:
*America has invaded the micro cosmos*
USA Government said if President Ahmoeba owned some dangerous weapon in Algaenistan
I think algae biofuels are still our best option when it comes to transitioning to all electric for vehicles. There's been more than a century of innovation in the world of combustion engines, and all that advancement isn't going away overnight. All electric is inevitable, but people aren't going to get rid of their combustion engines without a fight, and trying to completely phase them out is both impractical and infeasible.
Algae: has oil
Cars: I'll take your entire stock
USA: Time to bring some democracy
Seeing a new one of these after turning in a stressful assignment before midnight is honestly the greatest relief.
Whats interesting is that back in 2008 I wrote a term paper on Algae and how they can be used for biofuels. Its amazingly interesting and I would suggest that anyone reading this comment look up the book by David Blume: Alcohol Can Be A Gas. It proposes ways that Algae can be more easily formed into alcohol, which can be burned in modern engines with nothing more than a mere computer tune. We don't need to necessarily turn them into crude oil to burn them.
Do I hear gene editing to make algae that produce greater quantities of oil more rapidly?
Feed them some cocaine?
and acsidentally create THE BLOB, brilliant.
Bro thata a great idea you should probably get in touch with some scientists! They'll be annoyed they didn't think of it first
@@joshuastrickland3770 That sounds like some top notch experimentation. "The effects of Stimulant Medications on Botryococcus: How Florida Man can Power the Future with his Meth Lab."
@@BlueSparrow23 That's actually a serious and a funny comment at the same time.
👍
I'm soo excited when I see a new one of these.
Thanks to everyone that make this happen.
Random strange question.... Have you guys considered adding a modular system that attaches to the xyz axes to have automated control. Tied in with an image recognition system you could set it to follow a microbe and you could record its entire life. It should be possible with NodeRed or Codesys and Open CV. It could all run on a Raspberry Pi, a Beaglebone Black etc.
I'd be lying if I didn't occasionally daydream about being a tardigrade or rotifer or some other microcritter, incapable of thought, and thus, worry. I blame this channel, you make it look so relaxing.
One of the most important advantage of algae, is they can grow on industrial waste water and convert the wastewater into fresh water. This means one of the major issues of biofuel (water negative source of energy) can be solved through this quality of algae.
At the cusp of 500k subs as of writing this! Congrats guys!
Its at 499k!
Edit: over 500k now! Sweet!
501k now!
I love so much your voice when you speak so tranquilly ! It gives us less energy but more intimate understanding of science.
I love when he gets intimate with me UwU
I listen to a podcast called the Talking Biotech Podcast. They had an interesting interview recently with someone working with algae-derived oils with the end goal being biodegradable plastics for things like flip-flops. The scientist went over their use for biofuels, too, and how the price issue made them unable to compete, but he also said that he estimated the price per barrel would be about $100 if they scaled up with current technology, IIRC.
for real, we need a channel like this on brazil, most of people here does not understand english, for lucky i understand a little bit, but i would stay more confortable if the content was on my language
This reminds me of a paper I wrote in HS about how we could use phytoplankton to help combat pollution. Not exactly an academic masterpiece but it was a fun look into learning about alternatives using these tiny but large parts of our world.
Algae is a potentially cheaper version of solar panels with a cheaper and denser way to store the energy it produces. Algal oil is also a terrific source of ω-3 fatty acids! The bio-available kind too!
huge fan bro nice video
Hitting us right where it hurts with the snack reaching thing right off the bat!
I once contemplated making biofuel from algae to make a few bucks - but the extraction process required too much energy and jacked up the cost too high. Making gobs of algae is pretty easy though, and that process sinks a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere.
There may also be a time where conventional oil costs that $300+ per barrel. And the cost of algae fuel production will also come down.
Do an episode on dinoflagellates and their serial secondary and tertiary acquisition of plastids.
Its like every video is somebody scoping my brain out then throwing on a wall, they putting it back together perfectly, maybe even a little better.
do avideo on spangnum moss?
I want to go back to this calm spacey music. x
sitting in a bubble of my own creation is my favourite
Ever since I understood the origin of mitochondria, i've wondered if we couldn't perhaps do something similar: engineer a microbe that devotes its entire existence to energy production so that we can harvest the energy for ourselves. Like a battery that naturally recharges itself over time or something. If evolution can do it, surely we can mimic it, right?
How do these algae use the oil?
I guess for food, but why/how? and why don't other microbes?
I would guess it's their version of body fat
@@limiv5272 If the lipids produced are shed as droplets, it's their waste product, not an energy reserve.
It amazes me that pretty much all animal life is reliant on the oxygen created by photosynthesising creatures like cyanobacteria and algae 2.2B years ago.
That our species has managed to consume so much of these eons of distilled solar energy in a couple of hundred years says a lot about humans gluttony.
@@jimurrata6785 You brought up a good point, if the fat droplets were for energy storage the cells wouldn't just release them. According to my short google search, they make a lipid biofilm. That sounds very cool
I've been following this channel for a while and just today I realized that Hank Green is the narrator.
My best friend, It's always great. I wish you every day of your development. Have a happy day!
I love this channel keep on doing what you are doing
"...and growing algae does not come with a manual.."
I guess you guys never had any fish tanks. Leave the lights on steady for a week and I'll have a few ounces for ya. Wet weight. 🤣
Are we not gonna talk about the fact that every shot was at 630x magnification with a scale bar of 31 micrometres? Is there a treasure hunt afoot? Is this a clue?
How do cells in a small multicellular organism like the tardigrade communicate and coordinate with each other?
Molecular signals. You don't need muscles and neurons to move, look at plants
someone out to try and just throw wood in a buried hole to make oil. Digging up the garden I noticed that 3 feet down ANY wood had carbonized into charcoal. The remaining key is to use pressure gradients(different size rocks) to oxidize the mass inside the various layers of shale. Lastly, the hydro source is likely just underground water being split in a mechanism akin to an aspirator pump... where the jet is pointing upwards and being driven by evaporation...
random thoughts ... it's probably just a fantasy tho ...
When's the next window for grabbing music? I missed the pre-order >.
EROEI is the key: Energy Return Of Energy Invested.
If much bigger than 1 then is profitable.
Last I heard, some lipid (oil intensive) algae thus far lab developed, hybridized(?), have been able to attain almost 90% lipid content. In consumer-speak that means the algae cell is almost 90% vegetable oil. Algae grows fast, isn't picky about the water quality (can be free sewer facility discharge effluent water and the waste CO2 from those facilities) if grown for fuels. Isn't too picky about its neighborhood (location). Does need sunlight, CO2, and proper lighting if there's nighttime operation. We can do algae biocrude probably easier, cheaper, than bringing fossil crude from halfway around the world, interfering with global politics for that reason etc.. And it brings the "oil industry" and those jobs home to the USA, in terms of providing energy related science/technology jobs regionally here in the USA!! Like they say: "We need to be the change." Btw.. the oxygen gas and sludge byproduct from algae biocrude production are also valuable commodities.
Keep in mind, algae doesn't require agricultural/food-grade cropland quality potable water. For algae biocrude production, since we're not going to be eating the biocrude fuels, non-potable water would probably work just fine. Same with the land-use location. Doesn't need to be expensive real estate or food cropland. Any land location that gets some reasonable sunlight. My thinking is that some of this information is biased against economic aspects of fuel algae production. I think they must've used Perrier for the water. Did not consider availability of nuisance, byproduct (waste) CO2, which is abundant, just has lots of protectionist laws that impede use/research as a commodity of value, rather it's usually just "by law" vented to the atmosphere or some non-economically threatening disposal mechanism. Similarly top-dollar was probably paid for tanks of CO2 from existing for-profit sources..
2:39 Also a thing that I think already a longer time about. Well, first off, "off the shelf" / garden variety algae (probably) won't cut the mustard. As the C3 photosynthesis process is very inefficient. We need an alga ... do we really need an alga? Isn't (in a technical application like this) a chloroplast more efficient? Well, we need an organism that takes in the nutrients provided, including sunlight, and excretes oil, with an efficient rate as high as possible. It does not being able to fight off any virus nor other organism. Protection from mutations would come in handy, though.
While I would love to, I'll have to leave the details to people way smarter than I am.
Fantastic footage, as always! Thank you!
Love you hank ❤
4:50 poor bear
Thanks you so much! This was wonderful and inspiring!
What's the name of that fractal Piramide looking algae at 2:25?
0:40 - 0:52 Wanda Maximoff, is that you? 🥴😂
Isn't algae the thing that is currently generating most of the O2 in the planet? If that is so, then maybe it would be a bad idea having people using them as fuel
But I _do_ want to chill out in a bubble of my own making when things get though...
This guy seems to be high on algae and I like that
Making biofuels while oxidizing the world's oceans seems like a great idea
Great philosophical rant Hank. 10\10 am gonna recommend!! ^_^
Deep thoughts from shallow waters.
I see a few diatoms with oil on or in them. Are they capable of producing oil like the Botryococcus.
The Vorticella has to beat it's cilia to get it's snack. That seems like an awful lot of work.
Clean burning Carbon Negative Algae Bio Fuel would of been well established in the US ( and elsewhere) 8-10 years ago if it wasn’t for Fracking. That artificially brought Oil prices right down, just at the time when Algae growers in the US were preparing to scale up for fuel production!
Started watching these while I eat, but I’m caught up now. I fear I may starve to death.
video starts at 2:30
It really takes my mind somewhere else.....
Incidentally the OST for this episode had major C-418 vibes, go check them out they were the composer for Minecraft.
God: **designs humans to be capable of complex thoughts and forms of self expression and entertainment**
Humans: I wish I were a microbe
God: **surprised Pikachu face**
Holy fudge! How did I not know about this channel?
Alternative title: "Algae -- Will It Blend?"
Nobody accounts for the externalities like the military investment and environmental cost in the price of oil
We need more research and development in that area, could be in major factor in limiting climate change!
"All aquatic photosynthetic organisms" is a bit too broad a definition for algae. Sea grass is one counter-example; cyanobacteria is another.
Are you trying to get us assassinated by the oil industry? :P
Cool to learn about! Hopefully we won't need them to fuel ICE vehicles by the time they are at cost parity... I'd worry some company may try to claim it as greener/cleaner to burn because of the source.
The source is carbon neutral though so it is cleaner than fossil fuels though...
Fossil fuels are ultimately carbon neutral.
(If you want to go back to an atmosphere that didn't support animal life)
Do a video on utricularia pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase!
As always, phenomenally cool.
Did someone say oil 🛢️ ? 💂🔫🚁🚀💣
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Sooooo...if it becomes affordable we will have a gas har har . seriously always great content.
it may not become a fuel source at scale but i imagine it will flourish as a cottage industry because its so simple. people will begin producing their own biodiesel and some of that feed stock will be algae.
also, the byproduct is basically pig and chicken feed so we all know who is going to be capitalizing on that
fat droplets in yogurt looks pretty rad
why not just recapture carbon from the atmosphere and make fuel from that?
The excess waste heat from a Thorium nuclear reactor could easily do this task.
I thought the point of renewables was to stop producing our energy by burning oil--which produces co2 and other green house gases. Wouldn't burning oil produced by Algae just perpetuate that problem?
The "greenhouse gas effect" was proven wrong by me and many people...
Would food seaweed prices go up if algae officially becomes the main source for car fuels?
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What about harvesting the juice of the gasoline rabbit?
Sea glass has another meaning and I live is Seaham.
could you take a look at T-cells?
Is there a biological compound or hydrocarbon that algae could produce that is denser than water and would quickly sink to the sea floor? Some sort of carbon sequestering poop?
Ideally something that only contains carbon and hydrogen and not other stuff needed to continue the cycle of life, as not to starve the ecosystem of minerals or iron. Also ideally something with low nutritional value that won't get eaten and will release the carbon again, but keep it on the seafloor instead.
Some kind of biological polymer? Something like cellulose or chitin?
Can you do a video talking about what you think Mars microbial life is like
Is? We don't know if it ever existed, let alone that it still does
Biofuel will probably be the poor man’s fuel in the future
Why they release the oil!?? Why waste such a precious energy source!?
For biofilm and to fight competing species.
Sounds like slavery with extra steps! :D
i just found out that this is hank's voice. wtf it's so strange hearing him speaking calmly that sounds another person LMAO
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Why not use Genetic Editing on the algae so they do nothing except produce oil.
I thought Hank was just saying “shells” with an old, white, southern woman drawl.
Did you just smear some yogurt on a slide and put it under the microscope?
Dr. Kane sent me here.
Huh my second name translate "beerbrewer" 😅😂(not joke)
Ай билиив ю :)