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The Little Green Plant That Could: Duckweed as a Renewable and Sustainable Biofuel Feedstock
This award-winning video highlights duckweed as a promising biofuel feedstock candidate. Produced by Philomena Chu and Ryan Gutierrez, Laboratory of Eric Lam, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Judge's Choice and Community Choice Winner of the 2013 IGERT Video & Poster Competition.
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Time-lapse Video of Duckweed Growth
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Spirodela polyrhiza (greater duckweed) grown on filtered wastewater from Princeton Meadows Wastewater Treatment Plant. This strain (#9316) was originally collected from a lake in Ajmer, India. Duckweed plants use asexual reproduction to multiply rapidly on nutrient-rich water. In the process, they absorb the dissolved nutrients and purify the water. Photography by Ryan Gutierrez and Philomena C...
The Little Green Plant That Could: Duckweed as a Renewable and Sustainable Biofuel Feedstock
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This video highlights duckweed as a promising biofuel feedstock candidate. By combining duckweed's natural abilities with growing it on wastewater, we believe that we can find optimal strains to pave the way for a cleaner future.
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  • @Owlzz_
    @Owlzz_ 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How tf i got 30s ad for this 7s video

  • @awokekassazewdie7756
    @awokekassazewdie7756 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i am working on it please help me

  • @david203
    @david203 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish this experiment had gone on longer. It looks almost like the multiplication stopped near the end. That would be interesting to explain.

  • @RakuzenJinpachi
    @RakuzenJinpachi ปีที่แล้ว

    wew they are very fast growing plant

  • @vloadedr
    @vloadedr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guys grow duckweed in a glass and still growing Me growing duckweed in medium size of fish tank but still died💀💀

    • @david203
      @david203 ปีที่แล้ว

      They can't live on clean water. Pretty obvious.

  • @jaybrielakoi7747
    @jaybrielakoi7747 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've tried to grow duckweed multiple times and I fail every single time. I consider it my super power.

    • @nidhishetty7172
      @nidhishetty7172 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

    • @alexandrevaliquette3883
      @alexandrevaliquette3883 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't use only duckweed with tap (chlorinated water). You need a fair amount of nutrients in the water. If you change your water too often, you won't get enough nitrogen in water for proper propagation of duckweed. Beware, if you don't change your water enough, you might kill the most sensitive living creature in your tank!

  • @A777K
    @A777K 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got some but I don't have an aquarium, slowly the leaves are dying. Everytime it multiplies and has a new tiny leaf it ends up dying. I had like 30 of them, now they've reduced to less than 10. How can provide nutrition to them? Do i have to change water every once in a while?

    • @cutaketheplunge
      @cutaketheplunge 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You need to add fertilizer. There are many options for aquatic plants available. A general purpose one for aquarium plants will work.

  • @philr3630
    @philr3630 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How think is the wire?

  • @shahadathossain8562
    @shahadathossain8562 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How much production cost of Bioethanol?

  • @NavigatedChaos
    @NavigatedChaos 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Something not mentioned is that duckweed only needs 2" of water to grow so if you combined the growth time of duckweed with vertical farming, your output of biofuel would skyrocket. Common duckweed could easily be used for biofuel and wolffia duckweed can be used as a steady source of protein for both humans and animals.

  • @RynaxAlien
    @RynaxAlien 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    They contain vitamin B12 and huge amounts of protein. How to collect them so they reproduce well again?

    • @david203
      @david203 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't believe 'huge amounts of protein". Do you have a reference for that as a fact? Plants rarely produce protein.

  • @spicynoodle5821
    @spicynoodle5821 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    so.. they just grow bigger and took off some of their leaf to multiply?

  • @ChocolateRains
    @ChocolateRains 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    are

  • @Indritnebiu
    @Indritnebiu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The fish store gave me free duck weed because they said they grow crazy so get some for free

  • @loneforest6541
    @loneforest6541 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice

  • @xanderoh5882
    @xanderoh5882 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    poggers

  • @garciacontracting
    @garciacontracting 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, it is sustainable, besides a large scale nursery, big animal farm, and for sure it will produce all the energy these places may need to operate, and probable some extras. there is no doubt, but not everyone has these conditions. This is good for certain places, but one thing we all have access to is the Sun. In one day, the sun gives us more energy that we will need in an entire year. In my humble opinion, these techniques of biofuels are great in a transition, but in long term, I think duckweed is better for animal feed, as it is edible, fresh and very nutrient. We must emphasize more in solar energy, it is free, abundant and available. We have the technology to mass purify SiO2, massively reduce it to Si Silicon, to make solar cells for solar panels. Today, November 2, we have the technology to produce more silicon than what it is been produce worldwide, in one year. We have the technology to triple the world production of excellent quality polycrystalline silicon and monocrystalline silicon to expand solar panel production of better quality, longer-lasting, more efficient and cheaper than what we have available in the market today

  • @UniversiteitvanNL
    @UniversiteitvanNL 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great video! We would like to use this in one of our upcoming lectures about duckweed. We are a Dutch non-profit organisation called 'Universiteit van Nederland' (University of The Netherlands). We make free accessible 15-minute lectures by the best Dutch scientists on our website and TH-cam. Would you be able to give us permission to use this video? If so, could you please send me an email? To this address: djoeke[at]universiteitvannederland.nl

  • @crescentus5413
    @crescentus5413 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pogchamo

  • @michaelbooker3321
    @michaelbooker3321 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    it just friggin multiplied, damn

    • @david203
      @david203 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess you hate dandelions.

  • @DeonGeraldNCHUA
    @DeonGeraldNCHUA 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bought some plants for my aquarium and for some reason their was abit of duck weed in the plant so now im trying to grow them and i got it for free so yay hope it grows.

  • @paulwalker1997
    @paulwalker1997 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don’t know why but I put it in my tanks 2-3 times and just won’t multiply at all Everyone says take over aquarium but I can’t get it to grow. Wonder why would love it to reduce nitrates

  • @jaridkeen123
    @jaridkeen123 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was short

  • @Lucky73678
    @Lucky73678 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mine goes reverse. Why am i killing duckweed

  • @dromeda6066
    @dromeda6066 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    We’re can I get some?!???

    • @watcherworld5873
      @watcherworld5873 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The answer to all such questions is Amazon.

  • @mikef3300
    @mikef3300 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had one piece of duckweed get into my tank from a plant that I purchased at a local fish store. In just a couple weeks it has multiplied into about 50 pieces floating around on the surface of my 55 gallon. I have a lot of surface movement from a wave maker and my hang on back filter. I believe this may be the reason it is taking awhile to grow but its still growing regardless

  • @sosooleander6767
    @sosooleander6767 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    what type of nutrient medium you usually use to grow duckweed?

    • @rephaelreyes8552
      @rephaelreyes8552 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you’re growing it from an aquarium, you don’t need anything

    • @vloadedr
      @vloadedr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      But the video only using small glass

  • @sidrasabir8828
    @sidrasabir8828 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi I am from Pakistan can you help me I need duck weed I don't how I fined Azola so you can send me duck weed if you send me I say thanks

    • @riaz4087
      @riaz4087 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi have you found it? i am working on it but not in pakistan

  • @trplankowner3323
    @trplankowner3323 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Using ethanol as fuel for motor vehicles is stupid. It cost more energy to make than is produced. Ethanol is highly destructive to the motor vehicle fuel distribution infrastructure as well as to motor vehicles themselves. Ethanol is far less energy dense than gasoline. In the USA, we waste billions of dollars yearly on this stupid leftist brainwashing scheme. Butanol is the only viable alcohol that can be reasonable used in motor vehicles, yet leftist politicians have intentionally blocked the production and use of butanol as a sustainable biofuel. Butanol can be produced from sawgrass and other drought resistant crops that do not require using scarce water resources and can be grown on nearly any empty lot of land. Brazil is one of the very few countries that has the correct combination of resources and geographical location to allow efficient exploitation of ethanol as a motor fuel, most other nations on Earth cannot. However, butanol could be produced almost anywhere. If the US were to develop the systems to cheaply process biomass into butanol motor fuel, many third world nation could cheaply and efficiently produce there own motor fuels, without depleting local food stocks. However, that system would not empower huge multinational corporations and their masters, the political left and other statist. The butanol biofuel system would cause a redistribution of political power to the poor from the state.

  • @bradpetehoops
    @bradpetehoops 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing.

  • @upgrade2799
    @upgrade2799 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    How long in actual days is this

    • @BlackQueenNetwork
      @BlackQueenNetwork 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's maybe a couple of hours dude

    • @user-uu9zv7pb2u
      @user-uu9zv7pb2u 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      UPGRADE 27 14 days.

    • @konodioda3854
      @konodioda3854 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      5 seconds my dude

    • @Megatog615
      @Megatog615 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      it literally shows in the video, lol

    • @Kiki_Fox
      @Kiki_Fox 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      14

  • @charlesvalencia4953
    @charlesvalencia4953 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    is she saying bowel fuel?

  • @brendang8857
    @brendang8857 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video! Keep up the good work! =D

  • @martylynchian8628
    @martylynchian8628 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ethanol is crap

    • @arnoldgrabski6436
      @arnoldgrabski6436 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ethanol has a higher octane rating then most plain gas. As long as you don let it sit in your tank and get old over a long period of time then why not use it? Lots of very high performance cars run off E85 because it prevents knocking so well.

    • @TemplarX2
      @TemplarX2 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      The problem is the tank not the fuel. The tank needs redesigning.

  • @herald_of_xotlisk5992
    @herald_of_xotlisk5992 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    hahah shit.

  • @andredeosaran3842
    @andredeosaran3842 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    what is in the water

  • @bowfinchaos
    @bowfinchaos 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Neat! This bunch looked like it doubled or more every 7 days.

  • @yoobettarecognize9870
    @yoobettarecognize9870 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was exactly what I was looking for...interesting. I must be killing my duckweed off somehow because my buds are staying at a consistent number. Maybe getting sucked into my intake.

  • @david203
    @david203 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, it's beautiful. Yes, it filters out waste and excess nutrients. But it also fills up bays and other open water needed by waterfowl and other animals, leading also to putrid odors due to the bacteria of putrefaction. Don't discard duckweed into any public land or water.

    • @levitheguy6086
      @levitheguy6086 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fuck I just dumped ten buckets into my local pond

    • @serarains
      @serarains ปีที่แล้ว

      @@levitheguy6086Uh oh

  • @nmacog
    @nmacog 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    love it - hope it spawns this quick in my aquarium !

    • @magnificunt
      @magnificunt 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      nmacog Same here, I want it to cover my pond and kill off the algae.

  • @MsTokies
    @MsTokies 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol god i hope you wont do GMO duckweed. it's like why put that out there if you can't put it back into the box. cool idea ,,, i hope you find your perfect duckweed

  • @Hkiwi1846
    @Hkiwi1846 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    i enjoyed this

  • @matt0weybright
    @matt0weybright 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool