Why the world needs more algae, not less.

[@DWPlanetA]

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/

[@christophercorsiga4088]

You should have a facebook page where you can share this info. A lot of asians and africans are into facebook. This is gamechanging.

[@Fournier46]

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 : )

[@interrobangings]

no seaweed isn't algae

[@katemakingwaves]

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!!

[@efh1896]

@@interrobangings 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

[@dps3902]

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.

[@hiankun]

And it's eatable! :-p

[@nealtauss1715]

@@hiankun ....prophylactic medical edible....

[@KIM-nc7ti]

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

[@dps3902]

@@KIM-nc7ti its all crony capitalism. Mind you, communism isn't the answer yet this is worst kind of capitalism

[@santosh911]

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.

[@btno222]

I like this video because, biologists and volunteers are utilizing tech the RIGHT way; to help the environment

[@elb8284]

agreed, not creating false crisis to fear people into running around excited like their hair is on fire.

[@oldshampoo]

@@elb8284 there are so many videos like this but the alternatives to plastic are not gonna be used anytime soon commercially.

[@debbiehenri345]

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.

[@Alicegab300]

Doesnt it contains salt that could harm plants?

[@lordnessa5893]

Using seaweed is a quite old practice. It's interesting to know that people still use it! And also use pondweed!

[@Barskor1]

@@Alicegab300 Hence the washing....

[@sannhetenskalseire8873]

@@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??

[@kimwarburton8490]

@@sannhetenskalseire8873 financial literacy is deliberately not taught in state schools 😢

[@buddhapiyao1315]

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.

[@brianlevine249]

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.

[@buddhapiyao1315]

@@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.

[@brianlevine249]

@@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.

[@buddhapiyao1315]

@@brianlevine249 we just have to do our bit. its still a contribution nevertheless.

[@ian4683]

@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.

[@randodox8375]

This channel is underrated. It needs more attention!

[@DWPlanetA]

Thanks and help us spread the word :)!

[@ivangordienko8081]

- We're got you surrounded! Come eat your trendy garbage that no one actually likes! - I hate the KZbin's algorithm I hate the KZbin's algorithm

[@sreea2365]

@@ivangordienko8081 You will LOVE the TikTok trends! You will LOVE the TikTok trends!

[@SebastianRocks1234]

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.

[@debbiehenri345]

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 KZbin?

[@sannhetenskalseire8873]

@@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.

[@barbaraknight5389]

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!

[@andrewf6139]

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.

[@evilkidm93b]

Interesting perspective.

[@samuelkanuna3422]

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.

[@anamewoah5336]

This is so cool to think about! Though that means the soda can would have to be sanitized

[@alvaropineda410]

Had to rewind over many parts to wrap my head around what was being said.

[@NitishKumar-kp7ir]

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

[@cookingwithkimbap4432]

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!

[@DWPlanetA]

Many thanks!

[@cookingwithkimbap4432]

@@DWPlanetA Sure! I completely support this channel as it brings up problems everyone needs to solve! Enjoy a new subscriber (:

[@TheStrikeStrike]

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.

[@williambrandondavis6897]

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.

[@hurrdurrmurrgurr]

@@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.

[@sebastiangruenfeld141]

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.

[@tony16991]

Is it economic as well? Or has the potential to be in mass production?

[@evilkidm93b]

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.

[@vojtechfarkas885]

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.

[@ian4683]

@@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.

[@sannhetenskalseire8873]

@@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.

[@nicodb9251]

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.

[@dathuynh9772]

Thanks for making the video on the topic. Looking forward to more.

[@JurekOK]

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

[@ez9566]

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

[@yksderson]

Can anyone recommend a type of algae to grow in the tropical areas?

[@cherrith_7381]

I hope this gets super popular, you usually don't hear about these things!

[@devvratdevbharti11]

knowledgeable content Lovely video❤ I love DW and its presentation. 🙏 from india.

[@alvaropineda410]

I'm Latino and I love India and pray I could get the chance to go there one day. Am I writing you from USA. Be blessed my friend. Love how you guys are standing up to China 🦾

[@devvratdevbharti11]

@@alvaropineda410🙏 thank you my friend what's your good name? I will always pray to God that you will visit India as soon as possible I also ❣️usa and American too much I will hope that you give us a great opportunity to show our fabulous hospitality.🙏❣️🇮🇳

[@thatgreenlifeuk6695]

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

[@ms.pirate]

I watched a show called prepers, and way before this video was made, their making their own as survival food for nutrition. I hope this video spreads more

[@sannhetenskalseire8873]

Prepers? can it be found here on youtube?

[@roe2012]

Thanks for the hard works create this video. Keep up the spirits.

[@Ornzora]

Human: destroy planet and make global warning Algae : Thank you, i will never forget you, i will fight for you

[@osamasa3id]

😅😪

[@yozinobabin402]

Nice observation bud, i am still concerning about waterbeat development tbh

[@yozinobabin402]

Waterbear*

[@firefox39693]

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.

[@williambrandondavis6897]

lol, this has been going around for over 40 years. It’s not new and it’s gone nowhere fast.

[@BALSCOU]

using wood to build is literally changing the problem. If we start using more wood, there will be even more desflorestation...

[@firefox39693]

@@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.

[@Gebri3l]

@@firefox39693 and the cattles?

[@thestrongman11]

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?

[@sanjaymatsuda4504]

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.

[@spulwasser]

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🤪

[@justinweatherford8129]

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.

[@dr_rd]

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.

[@kabirbaidhya8818]

Very informative. Thanks for sharing!

[@danielhanawalt4998]

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?

[@izaawad3057]

Great coverage!

[@chrism3784]

Sounds great, looks great. Lets do it. Plenty of ocean out there to farm this stuff

[@colmhughes2218]

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

[@Sanctor95]

More people need to see this

[@oevandrorealconfia4762]

This channel needs more attention.

[@BlacknBlueTomatoe]

Alright, everyone let's stand tougether. This video needs to get as many views as possible as this is a genius idea

[@michaeltrobridge9755]

Good explanation of an important story, thanks!

[@fassphoto]

Awesome video! Congrats 👏👏👏

[@Jctakegami]

Great video, make more about zargazo, I live in Puerto Rico and I am interested in options for handled it

[@bobmervak1466]

This video is terrific-fascinating and encouraging. More people need to see it and rally

[@alihindustani3374]

That background music at 4:10 makes me imagine Trent Palmer is gonna pop up anytime in the video.

[@joshchristianson7522]

This video needs more veiws!

[@lynnwalker]

So fascinating! Thanks for sharing this information, keep it up!

[@ChristianCaurla]

Super cool story!

[@moirai1161]

the more i watch videos in your channel, the more i find nature fascinating and breathtaking. im not a researcher but i have always loved reading about the human life and im so glad that you're doing your best to let us know more about the planet's regenarative qualities. it truly is amazing how mother earth will always have the magic to heal itself all the time while still harboring life. thankyou, really.

[@dy7296]

8 minutes of more teaching than school in a week.

[@garycalzavara]

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.

[@jasminpabla5746]

Man this is amazing we need to produce so much of this and get going on this

[@JBaxter-pi8oj]

Is there an update on this project? I'd like to know how it's progressed given that I've not heard of this before. Thank you!

[@roshanlama8730]

Such an informative video and channel. I am glad i found your channel keep up the good work.

Thank you so much DW. Great video and solution.

[@soupiedog23]

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..

[@pinkipromise]

its staple in asia and asians have highest population

[@eduardouribealbarran6415]

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

[@sannhetenskalseire8873]

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.

[@guptabhishek]

You missed out on mentioning that feeding seaweed to livestock has mostly been a failure due to gsatrointestinal issues that the cattle experience

[@tjslam26]

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.

[@SandLion]

@@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.

[@JochemVO98]

@@SandLion you have no clue how intestines work, food doesn't magically get transformed into shit

[@umutruzgar2923]

@@JochemVO98 ? And they didn't say it magically transformed, they say the opposite. Also carbon always transforming, they didn't say anything wrong

[@girisuryamawandi8743]

@@SandLion i thinks they say reduce methane gas that out from cow 87%, they dont say the carbon magically gone,

[@erdemsen5474]

great video, ty

[@2912kamil]

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

[@mattstrang9198]

I like how you ended it in a weird way.

[@nandofelisberto]

Excelente material😊 para uso Precisamos agora de pesquisa para tornar as Algas aplicáveis na prática para a população.

[@kn1752]

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!

[@garygustafson176]

Where does ocean acidification come in, can someone point me in the right direction? I didn't hear it mentioned.

[@HowlingWolf518]

More kelp also means more fish habitat - that helps solve overfishing, too.

[@asthraafx]

DW is going great and the video you upload every Friday is awesome

[@raphlvlogs271]

the key question is that we need to learn how to effectively utilise seaweed.

[@spulwasser]

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!

[@barbiepr1692]

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.

[@DWPlanetA]

Thank you!

[@Crime-Politics]

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.

[@anthonybeers]

a problem is that you are also sinking phosphorous which is the agricultural limiting nutrient.

[@parwindersinghwaraich2365]

I like it. I am working on same concept but for different purposes.

[@15_heidune72]

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.

[@rodrigoluis9134]

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.

[@mazdanaqvy3754]

Thanks for the video. Educational

[@robertorosales2267]

Thank you for sharing

[@kaelaliu9499]

This is so amazing -- thank you so much for this video

[@danielibarra3670]

Loved this video!

[@pingping7594]

Another great DW video. Keep up the good work.

[@Saddlerockbob]

Excellent video! The planet really needs to implement these carbon capture solutions. Thanks.

[@hanzee9008]

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 🥰

[@grudgex.]

❤️ from🇮🇳. thank you for the valuable information

[@THESHOMROM]

Love the topic and video. I also love the pothos plant at the end.

[@Xyb3rTeCh]

1:25 - 3:00 Hey DW Planet, which Drum & Bass background music is that? Thanks

[@captainsidewinder]

This could be the answer to a lot of our problems right here I love it, natural plastic is just a game changer

[@usamaizm]

This gives me hope.

[@ransom182]

This gives me hope. Thank you.

[@zerorage]

I never knew me loving seaweed snacks and food is saving the world. Now seaweed taste even better.

[@naranoualyny007]

This video is amazing. Super love

[@LivingWithGout]

I wonder if we can pump it into old oil wells to increase yield

[@ComicPhreak]

This is excellent! It gives more hope for the future.

[@johnfurr8779]

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.

[@veganchristian5127]

make this go viral. this solves everything

[@shamancentral5]

Whether it is farmed or not, algae will grow in areas of stagnation.

[@hashswap]

What about algal blooms?

[@tealkerberus748]

Most of the people discussing spirulina online are growing it in a nutrient solution based in sodium bicarbonate, and the spirulina is photosynthesising the carbonate from the solution instead of carbon dioxide from the air. If we want to use it to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air, we need to address that issue.

[@hrushikeshavachat900]

You have missed on a major part of using algae. Some rype of alagae can be used as a source of biofuels. Additionally, when used to clean industrial water, where they are allowed to grow and then used for biofuels, we have solved one of the major issues of biofuels process (water negative). Here as we are cleabing waste water, it can be said to be water nuetral. Similarly, as they suck CO2 while growing in waste water, they can be considered to be carbon nuetral.

[@emersonatico9475]

can we use this as reference material for our e-learning?

[@supriyas8346]

Algae if grown too much leads to eutrophication causing depletion of oxygen. This reduced level of oxygen in the ocean affects the aquatic life.

[@konliner9286]

I have lots of algae in my aquarium.

[@lindencoleman9360]

Fantastic job !!!

[@daviddesjarlais2764]

Good video. 🌄