Microalgae is more important than you think | Peter Mooij | TEDxDelft

“Every breath you take, half the oxygen you exhale was produced by micro algae,” say Peter Mooij. He calls them global players, who have been here before all of us and even before the dinosaurs. “And all this time they have been engaging in photosynthesis. In fact, without them, we would not be here. Because alive, they produce oxygen, but dead algae are converted into fossil fuels.”
Mooij loves to talk about his work. Being a young scientist himself, he hopes to inspire other young people to take up a career in science too. It is safe to say, algae is Peter Mooij’s life. His favourite colour is algae green, he lists algae as his pets - millions of them - and, most importantly, he researches algae at the Environmental Biology Department at TU Delft.
In an online profile, Peter Mooij says he has millions of algae as pets. His favorite color is algae green and he believes that understanding algae might just be the answer to everything.
An environmental biotechnology researcher at TU Delft, Mooij has been studying the phenomena of algae for quite a while. In 2013, he wrote about how algae can be ‘interesting candidates for the large-scale production of biodiesel’.
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[@PedroTRamos1]

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[@meridonmage9076]

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[@jo-han]

It is also important that you could not only do this in just salt water, but also in minimal filtered seawater. There will be algae and other organisms in the water.
Also the amount of food added should be minimal, because the resources for this will eventually compete with the resources needed for agriculture. They use the same phosphates and Nitrogen resources. You could test with it for now, but we might run out of phosphates in about 20-30 years. Most of our agricultural phosphates flush out to the sea. So if we can grow algae just on the phosphates already in the seawater we don't need to first filter phosphates out of seawater and then add it to you algae seawater.

[@jo-han]

+jo han ah you used NH4 and NO3 non phosphorous nutrients :) In that case its just a matter of cultivating bacteria that create those nutrients from the nitrogen in the air, but that is somebody elses study.

[@jamesag4135]

Surely a closed system would be better?

[@SantaMonicaFiltration]

Don't forget that macroalgae (seaweed) plays a little part in all this too :)

[@vivianeb90]

Everything is in some way or another connected.

[@vivianeb90]

Could these algaes seperate or produce oil from our muck water? Like our toilet water or sth?

[@kylehorton7651]

Yes, they do on commercial scale at wastewater facilities.

[@sampleoffers1978]

Did you ever put the algae genes into bamboo those years ago. There no way gmo scientists would no crack any issues, especially with AI simulations.

[@vanshika7754]

The guy looks like ed !!! ¿