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.

[@bradpetehoops]

Amazing.

[@brendang8857]

Great video! Keep up the good work! =D

[@crescentus5413]

Pogchamo

[@garciacontracting]

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

[@charlesvalencia4953]

is she saying bowel fuel?

[@yunhin9631]

Bio fuel

[@sidrasabir8828]

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]

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

[@MsTokies]

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

[@martylynchian8628]

Ethanol is crap

[@arnoldgrabski6436]

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]

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