How Industrial Algae Farms Can Help Save the Planet and Turn a Profit | Yao Huang | TEDxWrigleyville

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Yao Huang's enthusiasm for finding innovative and carbon-reducing business opportunities led her to become an algae farmer. It's no secret that microalgae can remove industrial carbon dioxide, but Yao's unique and fascinating talk shows us how this idea can be scaled and industrialized, thus making a significant dent in our CO2 emissions while serving as a great business opportunity. Yao Huang is on the board of Carbon Optimum, a carbon sequestering company removing carbon dioxide from polluting plants while producing biomass for carbon-negative fuel, fertilizer, food, and methane-reducing animal feed. As an investor and tech veteran, she is on a mission to amplify green investment initiatives, particularly those using algae to combat climate change. She has a particular passion for scalable, executable and female-led climate solutions.
Yao was named by Forbes as one of eleven women at the center of New York’s digital scene and TechWeek’s 100 most influential people in tech. Her efforts have been featured in World Economic Forum, Fortune, INC Magazine, Reuters, Daily News, Red Herring, Crains, American Venture, and TED. She leads a 17 year network of 10,000 women across 30 cities touching every corporation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@jasonsworldnow]

there is definitely money in growing algae

[@akashgaikwad7547]

One step towards saving our mother earth👍🏻

[@CamilaSacasa]

amazing talk!

[@melissawallace9872]

Brilliant! Can't wait to see more.

[@agrippanyagwaya2308]

Can you please demonstrate practically the set up of course

[@meghasingh4267]

we need to take climate issues seriously. Otherwise we will pay a heavy price in the future

[@user-km9ks8gj6q]

Brava Yao - Get that algae neutralizing all our CO2!!!

[@deanfowles3707]

She won’t, this is greenwashing shlt for the ff industry

[@emily_dover]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@masoncasper3289]

The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today, but such oils may become, in the course of time as important as petroleum and the coal for products of our present time, motive power can still be produced from the heat of the sun, always available, even when the natural stores of solid and liquid fuels are completely exhausted -Rudolf Diesel 1913 (inventor of the diesel engine)
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit, like that sumuch out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter. -Henry Ford

[@mimidawa]

wonderful

[@FirstName-nf4fx]

Brawndo its got what plants crave. No details a bunch of buzzwords.

[@plvsovltre]

Microalgae is carbon negative only if you bury it for 100-1000 years.
What this lovely lady describes is carbon neutral. And growing microalgae is really important.

[@ronc1357]

Since you don't have any idea of how the system works, It is carbon negative because it consumes more carbon dioxide than it takes to produce and process the algae. For every pound of algae grown, it consumes 1.8 pounds of CO2. To further add to this statement, not only do the algae capture the CO2 emissions they produce oxygen from it. The other reason it is carbon negative is that a lot of the products produced do not release CO2 emissions at all. How I know this is because it's my patented technology she is talking about, I spent 15 years developing it. I am very much looking forward to working with Yoa on this project.

[@markmc5112]

That would be true if it was burnt, but making products that store C02, is a negative C02 process. Basically the same as burying it in a useful product.

[@octavioqueface6675]

@@ronc1357Hi! How can I learn more about your technology?