Save the planet 🌍 Algae bio reactor diy system.

Please help save the Earth by growing Algae to reduce CO2. Easy algae bioreactor.
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[@Kiyarose3999]

We need to forget National politics, and work in our communities with or without local authorities to help each other build local Photo Bio Reactors on a village,community scale. National political parties & big business have been suppressing this low tech Carbon Sequestering /Electricity/BioGas producing solution for 12 years when it was first getting a bit of traction.

[@zanzillahsaruji9966]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHyzlYGrlt-efZosi=k2dCaEYTXsmZFukh algae in Sarawak East Malaysia

[@jwhen911]

Truth

[@Veladan]

Thank you kindly for this. What you've said in this video, well that's right 100%.

[@thembijan]

No problem Ian and thank you

[@josephdvid6]

My research is basically like this but it also generates electricity from the algae too

[@thembijan]

We should have a meeting and trade notes

[@josephdvid6]

@@thembijan sure dude

[@thembijan]

@@josephdvid6 my email is [e-mail]

[@Kiyarose3999]

On industrial scale two methods are used to grow Algae, one is in Photo Bio Reactors(PBR) and the other is in ‘’Race Ways’’ ( long narrow pools). So to make things simple and not need pumps, electricity etc, I cut the top off my 5Litre water bottles so the Algae can grow from CO2 in the open Air, I give them a stir a couple times a day to floculate the Algae and help indtroduce more Air into the Water. But don’t like to buy things, just from what I can salvage, as I don’t like new stuff having to be manufactured.

[@heni63]

so you just put the bottles there with algae, air stones and open top, and thats it? I think i heard co2 is more on the floor so it gets less co2 i guess? but sounds amazing easy

[@Kiyarose3999]

@@heni63 Just open top no air stones, the Algae just takes CO2 from the air, I feed it with the slime that builds up inside a bucket I use to catch sink waste water. Not sure what you mean re ‘’CO2 is more on the floor’’?

[@AA-hi8yx]

​@@Kiyarose3999Where do you get the algea from?

[@thobokgari8062]

@kiyarose3999 please share with me your email

[@geordonworley5618]

@@heni63 CO2 mixes very well with air so long as there is motion in the air, like due to your air conditioning or just walking around. It will only settle if there is little motion/mixing. Mixing can even happen due to light hitting the floor which heats up the air and makes it rise.

[@bast145]

Thanks for that great video let scale up this concept.

[@thembijan]

I going to one day but I did add more tubes part 3 coming soon

[@smolpener7430]

Any given person would need 2 IBC containers of this stuff cooking, with optimal temperature, nutrients, and light distribution maintained indefinitely, just to offset the Co2 they put out in respiration alone. To "scale it up" you'd pretty much have to induce algal blooms over most of the ocean, for an extended period of time, then collect all of it, and dump it in a stagnant swamp, or something similar, to prevent it from just releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere. The concept is already under consideration, if we can't figure something better out before it becomes a major issue.

[@nauticalnovice9244]

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[@Mgtow_Monk]

Should also account for the fact that plants breath in oxygen at night and expel co2. If your CO2 is higher than it should be inside your algae might be adding to your co2 at night. During the day during photosynthesis, it does take in co2 to produce sugars but at night there is little to no photosynthesis which causes the plant to instead take in air and put out co2.

[@thembijan]

I have taken that into account I have a co2 monitor. There will be a part 2 to this video we’re I go over upgrades and a co2 monitor.

[@Kiyarose3999]

That’s not true, plants take in CO2 they use the Carbon to grow from, and release Oxygen, photosynthesis is the process by which plants utilise atmospheric Carbon. To build their mass, and in the case of Algae they also produce Oil Lipids as a means to store energy!.

[@usbgamers123]

@@Kiyarose3999 Algae both does photosynthesis and "breathing" at the same time, and when it can't do photosynthesis (no light) it will increase the breathing to stay alive, which will temporarily increase the CO2 expended

[@paulsmart4672]

@@usbgamers123 It is trivially obvious, however, from the rapdily increasing biomass of growing algae, that the net effect is heavily towards carbon fixation, not carbon release. Even at night the CO2 release by growing algae will be trivial. On the scale of having a cat in the room.

[@usbgamers123]

@@paulsmart4672 You are right. I was only trying to refute the wrong notion that plants do not partake in aerobic cellular respiration

[@Kiyarose3999]

I use Digestate from my mini DIY Methane Digester to feed the Algae I grow in ( discarded) 5 Litre water bottles. Then I use the Algae Bio Mass to feed my Methane Digester making it a cyclic process while permanently sequestering atmospheric CO2, and producing BioGas to cook my food. I also use the slime that builds up on the inside of a bucket I use to catch waste water from under my kitchen sink, to flush my toilet with. My Algae grows v well from both these sources of nutrients, but seems to grow better from the Slime in my sink waste water bucket!

[@thembijan]

Wow that’s awesome. I haven’t tried to make biogas yet. I probably will one day if I ever make enough money to retire and live off the grid in some remote piece of land. For now once I collect enough algae I’m going to apply high pressure (2000+psi) and 800 degrees of heat to turn the algae into an oil. Then I hope from there I can turn it into a gas and kerosene. That will be on a future video.

[@Kiyarose3999]

@@thembijan It’s not a big or expensive job making a Methane Digester, so even if working, this could be a project that like a Hobby is done in off work time. An hour here n there a couple times a week, aand it would soon be done. Most of the Biomass I use in my Digester is from kitchen food scraps and invasive weeds, neighbours garden clippings etc. tbh my Algae production is not yet developed enough to be anymore than a small supplement to the main material. At some point probably next year, I will scale up my Algae production by building a tubular Photo Bio Reactor(PBR)

[@Kiyarose3999]

@@thembijan Hydrogen from Algae kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGrbiImJiLp0p5Y

[@himanshusoni171]

Make a detail video of its conntion and can we need to give some kind of food in the form of glucose And what we need to do for maintaining it

[@rbc812]

good job

[@thembijan]

Thank you. I know have 11 algae bio reactors on my window

[@hugocostapaulino2918]

this is perfect to RV life, they can use the dark water, and use for fuel: biodiesel, and after take the oil, can dry destilation, for use in biodiesel, and use the charcoal for barbecue

[@thembijan]

Yes it can and it would be carbon neutral if you did

[@hugocostapaulino2918]

@@thembijan carbon negative, because it have to destilate and only use 3%(methanol+acetone for biodiesel)+60%(charcoal), and the rest is water(10%)+11%(acetic acid)+asphalt compound

[@slashkitty13]

Maybe add grow/UV lights for night cycle to continue photosynthesis

[@thembijan]

I was thinking about doing that. To make that happen I would need a larger solar panel and more batteries. Part 2 video for this system coming soon. Thanks for watching and your comment 😀.

[@lobocean]

Hi! Can u tell me where I can find live spirulina culture? I'm loved your setup but I'm struggling trying to get live culture here in Brasil.

[@thembijan]

Amazon or eBay is where I buy it

[@arthursauvage3790]

Hello, we are a group of last year energy engineering students. We have a partnership with our city to reduce the CO2 in the cars busy streets or offices. We thought of doing a algae bioreactor. We have a few questions focusing on the practical use of such a bioreactor. It would be great if we can arrange a short TEAMS meeting like next week if you are available.

[@thembijan]

Email me at [e-mail]

[@bigmouthstrikesagain4056]

I've always wondered what would happen if you could combine a low power proof of work crypto and gmo algae with a open source designs to create reactors that anyone can build anywhere... like in poor African countries to rich American countries. To incentivize mining co2 using algae? And getting a private crypto coin like monero?

[@bigmouthstrikesagain4056]

You could call it proof of carbon capture or carbon p.o.w

[@thembijan]

@@bigmouthstrikesagain4056 that was the whole point of this project to make it as easy as possible and mostly use materials that people throw away

[@bigmouthstrikesagain4056]

I know that... and thats the beauty of it..........but just imagine what could be done if there was a modified play to win protocol crypto that incentivised capturing co2.... that used the stored carbon in the dried algae as a store of value.. ie like gold for that particular network. Call it greenbucks

[@Kiyarose3999]

Plants were growing just fine before we deforested most of the Earth, when there was the stable climate level of atmospheric CO2 at 270ppm, now it’s at a Biosphere Collapse level of 420ppm. The last time the Earth had the current 420ppm the Seas were approx 78 feet higher, we are only at the beginning of what 420ppm will do, so we need to permanently sequester the excess atmospheric CO2 in the next 5 years (if it’s not too late already) or we’re fucked! ✊🏽🌎🌻

[@thembijan]

One thing, nobody considers it what’s going to happen to the planet. Once we lose both ice caps forget about the rise of the sea we know that already. What I’m worried about is without the north and South Pole ice the earth will elongate do to centripetal rotation and we will see things like Africa split apart and we will have a lot of volcanic 🌋 eruptions and alot more earthquakes

[@Kiyarose3999]

@@thembijan Long before we loose both Ice Caps completely, we will have Biosphere & Societal collapse, it really don’t matter at or after that point as it will already be literally hell on Earth! We are in a state of climate breakdown now where Arctic Vortex destabilisation is already causing mega cyclic climate events across the US/Atlantic. Mostly impacting the NE US/North Atlantic, ‘U’K & Scandinavia will get massive storms/ floods as happened in Northern Europe a few years back, when Streets were turned into raging rivers in 3 countries simultaneously!

[@skylarchardon3951]

How much quantity wise would you get from a system like this, (algae biomass, water, and oxygen) is there a specific way to calculate rather then dumping everything out and weighing it?

[@thembijan]

Video coming soon I did the weight for the 4 tubes and 2 new tubes. The 2 tubes make 17 grams but I’m guessing 80 to 90 is water. The one with the 4 tubes I can remember the weight but it will be on video coming out shortly

[@Preyhawk81]

how do you make fuel from the algae? that would me interest too

[@thembijan]

There are a few ways that I’m going to do it. One dry the algae out and use a press to extract the oil. Once you have the oil you can convert it into a biodiesel. Second method is to compress the algae (2000 psi) and super heat it. Second method will turn the algae into a crude oil that can be fracked for fuel

[@IrfanAli-mu2pj]

This work is absolutely astounding! Do you have a moment to spare for a few questions I'd like to send over in an email?

[@thembijan]

Yes and thank you. My email is [e-mail]

[@user-of7df7xq1d]

sorry for my ignorant but what you do with the algae in the end ? drink it ?

[@thembijan]

No it will be used for a fuel later on. It can also be used to feed brine shrimp. Right now it’s main job is to capture co2 out of the air. I bought a meter that monitors the CO2 and it’s say that my levels are 2045 ppm when I have my air pump off. When I have my pump on the ppm goes down to normal levels of 430. There is going to be a part 2 video that will cover these topics plus a couple of upgrades so don’t forget to subscribe to see that future video

[@user-of7df7xq1d]

@@thembijan ok sure , thank you

[@yenniamarval]

Hii! How are you? I'm interested in building this system in my house, but I don't know how to set up the other items (solar panel, and other systems) can you help me a bit? Thank you!

[@thembijan]

Yes I’m doing a part 2 video soon but my email is [e-mail] we can either do a zoom call or teams call and I can guid you throw it

[@parientedehannamontana5067]

but in the night it works still? also about the light i thought they needed permanent light

[@thembijan]

I don’t fully understand your question but here is the run down of the system. The solar panel recharges two 18650 batters. The batteries power the air pump at 2.3 volts. The system runs as long as it got a good charge during the day.

[@parientedehannamontana5067]

@@thembijan is just that in my country i cant find someone who sells the fertilizer, and i found a study in spain that they used the algae to clean raw sewage from livestock, and the livestocks nutrients served as a fertilizer for the algae which was really appreciated because they wanted to save money and they considered this a perfect ecological cycle. but i was wondering because i would only dare to use my pee

[@jamest4027]

what do you do with your algae ?

[@thembijan]

For now I’m just collecting it. For a future video I might show how to convert it into a fuel or a biodiesel. I am open to suggestions if you have any.

[@AlAnGi]

@@thembijan you could dry it and then turn it to a nice biochar powder

[@thembijan]

@@AlAnGi yes I can

[@maciek9482]

hey, great video is there any way i can contact you? i have a few questions regarding this contraption :)

[@thembijan]

You can reach me at [e-mail] and we can set up a zoom

[@maciek9482]

@@thembijan i just contacted you via mail :)

[@maciek9482]

@@thembijan sent you a message :)

[@thembijan]

@@maciek9482 I’ll check my email when I get home today

[@thembijan]

@@maciek9482 I looked through my email. I didn’t see one from you. Can you send me another one and put the topic as algae questions thank you.

[@TwoForFlinchin1]

Fun fact plants get worse at absorbing CO2 the hotter it gets.

[@thembijan]

True but that’s why I have it on the inside. On my previous project that I did 10 years ago I had the problem because of the heat, not only with the co2 but also growing the algae.

[@TwoForFlinchin1]

@@thembijan I was mainly responding to your comment about MTG. I don't think she was thinking about algae when she was making her asinine comments about photosynthesis. I'm pretty sure it's because of algae having abundance of water whereas trees have to make sure that they're not transpiring all their moisture away which photosynthesis speeds up.

[@thembijan]

@@TwoForFlinchin1 lol thanks for that and yes her comments are asinine. I think her and Lauren have contest on who can come up with the dumbest comments.

[@paulsmart4672]

I've been trying to find information on CO2 sinks that people can use at small scale, around the house or farm. The biggest problem regarding algae is the same as with all other plant-based solutions: You can't just keep the photosynthetic organism exponentially growing *forever* and if it burns, or rots, or is transformed to fuel, or is eaten, etc, the carbon it fixed ultimately ends up back in the atmosphere. That can serve as something of a carbon offset, algae burned as fuel is still of some benefit if it's burned instead of some fossil fuel, algae used to make a food product is lower energy and produces fewer emissions than most other foodstuffs, but it's not a carbon *sink* From what I've been able to find about the topic, Earth's micronutrient budget does not allow for simply burying gigatons of algae deep enough to prevent it's re-release as CO2. Best answer I can find is char it, and mix the char into compost or soil. This will lock some (but not all) of the carbon in a biologically inaccessible form, and ultimately lock it back in the ground where we found it to begin with, but without permanently locking away massive quantities of biologically important elements like phosophorus which were incorporated into the algae as it grew. But I'm just starting my journey here, so to speak, and I don't know a good method for charring algae. If you dried it out, put it in a sealed, fire-proof can, and heated the can to sufficient temperature (a campfire would be hot enough) that would probably do it, but the energy cost of that operation is very undesirable. If you were making biochar from other materials that are a little more ammenable to the process, just pit burning them or something, you could maybe top off that fire with cans of algae.

[@bigmouthstrikesagain4056]

Sounds interesting..

[@geordonworley5618]

Personally, I am working to create plastic industrially from the algae, specifically polyethylene. The great thing about polyethylene is that the carbon will stay fixed in that form and can even be turned into something useful. It makes way more sense than making the plastic out of oil pumped from the ground, and it traps the carbon in the plastic. When we bury the plastic, the environment becomes anaerobic, and even plastic degrading organisms cannot degrade the plastic, therefore it is trapped under the ground where it came from in the first place. Trust me, this is the way. Also, plastic is not as bad as you might think overall. Think of it like wood. It is made of carbon made from plants, just in a different form.

[@FlakeyPM]

So where are you up to now?

[@thembijan]

I’m up to 11 tubes now

[@FlakeyPM]

@@thembijan Thanks for the prompt reply. What have you been doing with the product?

[@thembijan]

@@FlakeyPM nothing yet just collecting the algae for now

[@seekingseaker]

Or you could just plant a tree in your back yard without using all that plastic and electricity

[@thembijan]

I have planted 4 trees in my back yard so far the only problem with trees is that they drop leaves or limbs which converts back to co2 as it decays.

[@werewolf74]

a few thoughts. 1. we absolutely should take action and be mindful 2. you 'counter reacting' to MTG is a stretch, she's a very dumb person and I mean that as in, she is a science denier and does not have any critical thinking skills. If she does she does not demonstrate or espouse to them. So acting is goo, REACTING because of her... is weird. But yes shes in a position of 'leadership' 3. Stuff like this is great BUT its a lot like recycling. Individual recycling has nearly zero effect. Its a minute amount and only like 10-20% of what we recycle is actually recycled. Its down to these huge mega companies.... 4. When the word DOES implode a fuel source other than oil is a good idea. I always thought an eel / fish / algie thing would be a great system. Nasa has explored this some. 5. Do we have any idea what the biproduct of this is?

[@thembijan]

Not yet put I’m build an rc turbine engine so I was thinking about turning the algae into an oil using 1200psi and 600f. Once I turning it in to an oil crack it a kerosene for that model jet. Other than that I was just playing of storing it, and at some point if I became big enough as far as a company. I would find an unused oil fields and pump the algae into the ground

[@zanzillahsaruji9966]

​@@thembijanAlgae in Sarawak East Malaysia kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHyzlYGrlt-efZosi=k2dCaEYTXsmZFukh

[@tryiadawoj9516]

I wouldn't say you are saving planet making this project. You are eventualy saving yourself. Even if 8854 people did it right now, you wouldn't save the planet. Planet saving needs changes in whole countries, continents and huge companies, not only in people's homes. I think that growing algae by regular people can save them when it will be to late for goverment actions. There may come a time when we will have to grow algaes to survive on polluted Earth like "IO" (2019) movie main character did grow vegetables and raise bees to stay alive.

[@thembijan]

I realize this is a small task I’m hoping one day I’m able to build a large scale project that can help our planet. Small seps for innovative leaps. The good thing is people are building my system so my hope is that with enough people building the same project we can save the world.

[@Dicksmacktom]

It takes one person seeing this to think of the next stage of it. For all you know, this very video could be there start of something for someone who creates what could save us

[@Crecross]

What kind of crack are you on? This is real life, not Hollywood. 💀

[@heroiccombatengineer6018]

If you cover the whole planet with this, it wouldn't be enough. How can ppl blv such things, the logical answer is one google search away smh it won't work it's just a waste of time.

[@thembijan]

@@heroiccombatengineer6018 yes it would require a lot of these systems. But at least I’m trying. Standing around doing nothing is worse:

[@fikepacitech5467]

can i have your email so that i can ask you more about this system i want to make at least bigger one which is able to offer like 3 kgs of dried finished product per month

[@thembijan]

[e-mail]

[@user-ev6bu4xj5n]

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