Thanks, yes I have. I'm always checking his tweets. I'm excited about the competition but at the end of the day with or without a cash prize I will continue to work on this, and make it as big as possible it just great to see more people interested in the problem.
The idea is great although not new, but I think the design is flawed, the amount of energy you take from the wall outlet (35W for the pump) requires more carbon emission to create than the amount of carbon you capture with the algae. If the power to the pump would come from solar panels or other green energy, then yes it is a winner.
Hey, thanks for watching. And true offsetting any power usage by the algae would make it pointless, not sure how far you have got in the series but I talk about solar power as one of the points and also plans for the project. a lot of the testing phase of the project would be kind of counterproductive to co2 removal with all the sensors / equipment and materials for the test but is designed to produce more consistent results, after which I can design a more minimal system of parts power usage ect. and then look to other things like scaling of the system
@@ScottyDIY Yes but the key I think is decreasing the bubble's amount when the algae culture has risen to a certain level. Maybe that amount of pumped oxygen is too much. As you said, the system can only work with green energy. So places without sun exposure can't use it, or use wind power if possible (instead). If you plan to place these machines near the ocean, you can also think about wave energy.
I have made a small one for my window cill suing a 2 litre spagetti jar, a 1 watt air bubbler with diffuser stone which runs on a solar power bank. I have added 1 crushed chlorella tablet and some aquarium moss balls and capped the jar with a bath sponge.. When the water starts to go really green i'm gonna siphon it to water house plants. If the solar battery bank will keep it's charge and it is fully carbon neutral I am going to make one for the bedroom window as well. Thinking of adding some interesting aquarium ornament and getting some solar powered LED's to underlight it so it becomes decorative as well. Maybe a good homemade gift idea... I have got so carried away in fact that i might even get a fish tank to do the same thing and just grow plants and algae it it-but only if i can do it with solar power.
I was wondering if you think it would be possible to combine a VOC plant fungus with these liquid trees algae so that we could burn plastic and the fumes could be turned into oxygen? Like couldn't we bioengineer the fungus with the algae so that they work together to produce as much oxygen as possible from these harmful chemicals? Please reply if u think this idea is dumb or not id appreciate it..
The transportation dept of the US has the ability to put in 1 million swamp algae carbon capture and sequestration areas in cloverleafs and road verge next to highways today reducing carbon by untold amounts. Do you think they will?
would it make sense to keep one of these units indoors to reduce co2 levels? I'm thinking that it could really help with concerntration if i could lower indoor co2 levels to something like 500 ppm. Would the algae produce any nasty smells? Could a solar powered plant light help with the algae's photosynthesis during night/winter? Really liking this idea and series!
Hey thanks for watching, indoors could work but then you don't get as much sunlight, mass scale would work better outdoor or industrial size, either way if you clean air it will help, smells may be one thing but will need to test for anything like bacteria, and solar light would help as well
Thank you for what you show. That's very wonderful! i am in vietnam and i am very interested in this topic. I also researched how to grow spirulina algae. Hope to get to know you and look forward to hearing from you!
So I just got hit with a flash of how to adapt this to a full suit. Guys. All those cool LEDs in gaming spacesuits. Make them grow lights. Tube the algae mix through the suit.
So you need to filter the CO2 from a coal or gas power plant or other versions of thermal power plants which produces CO2 and can be reprocessed using this bakteria
Ideally over time countries can move away from fossil fuel power plants. then all we need to do is work on fixing the issue that has already been made. unfortunately it may be some time before every country can go clean energy, so we need to find ways to reduce the Co2 now and as we scale up the carbon capture we reduce the need to use fossil fuels.
can growing cucumbers on a place that was crowded with trees before give as much oxygen than the trees do? my actual question is that people are destroying the forests in order to grow food, but noone is talking how much oxygen corn can produce ?
Hello Scotty! Hopefully you’ll see this message 😅, but I Was wondering where dd you get the algae sample… and which type of algae is like spirulina. Thank you great video!
First I believe planting trees would help the climate, but now I understand it doesn't help at all. It only helps if you chop those trees eventually and make furniture or houses with it. That are ways to capture co2 and you can also bury the wood under ground. That is much more efficient than just planting more trees that eventually rot and give the co2 back to the atmosphere..
Hey, good question, sequestering is the main purpose, Biofuel is one common option, which I will show and try but I have been working on a couple other things which I will run through those tests when the time comes hopefully can be a larger scale options, but burying it has never been an option I have wanted to go down
here's an idea, take the biomass and put it into a biodigester, and have methanogens digest it into CH4 and then burn it for fuel, take the resulting digestate, pasteurize it, and then put it on your plants or compost it to continue the sequestration process while generating a useful product for yourself and and your crops. keep making that black gold soil because that means you've sequestered more carbon into the soil in addition to the algae you are using to scrub co2 with. you started with microbial life you should end it with microbial life.
@@Meleeman011 But then again would the burning of CH4 generate more CO2, which you are trying to sequester in the first place. And biodigesters have one big big disadvantage: hydrogen disulfide (H2S). That stuff is a true and ugly killer, the tiniest trace of H2S can kill you in a closed space. At first you will be able to smell it, but it also burns away the receptors in you nose, so you won't be alarmed by the smell anymore. That's basically why you see all biodigester operations taking place in outside kitchens so ensure you won't die from H2S poisoning. You are just better off cooking on induction plates, which are the most efficient way to heat pots and pans anyway. If you need to generate electricity, then built a GEK gasifier to run a generator. Wood gasifiers produce deadly CO gas, but you wouldn't run a genset in your house anyway. You are still using biomass to produce energy, so in the end it's the same. Or running you genset on algea diesel if you can make it ;) But if the purpose is to genuinely live CO2 negative, you would have to simply bury the algea to be properly return the carbon to the earth once more.
Hi this design I am making from scratch their is no link. My Initial learning came from reading online articles and also reading thesis's posted online. The initial system I am building is more based around testing different stains of algae and recording data, So basically a science experiment to prove the concept, once this is done I will focus on a larger system that is more suitable for replication by others. The system design will most likely be similar in design but I will hopefully work out any of the problems/design flaws along the way. As I release more videos on the system I will go through the steps on how I build and test each of the components, But I will also dedicate a video around the science of the system as well.
@@ScottyDIY i have a tilapia pond and theres aerator in it. Then some of the water gets pumped into a compartment and once a while it gets filled with 'sediments' that i use to accelerate the decomposition of my compost. But then again some of it might be tilapia waste and not carbon from the algae. Do you have any literature and studies about the accumulated waste or sediments. I would like to know
Yes, but it would not be as efficient, until I get all the data in I cant say about temperature, but sun is one of the key components. the sun could be replaced with lights but at what cost to run that light may negate the positive effects.
You can't buy these at the moment, I will go through videos on ways to make your own, I wouldn't suggest making this unit as it is based of testing and data needs which you probably wont need
Do you realise what this can do if you have one of these that can be exposed to sunlight in the back of a space suit instead of an oxygen tank you can generate your own oxygen from CO2 meaning that you could live on Mars you need to send this to NASA
I'm not sure how it would go in smaller systems with recycling a single user, but as a concept it could potently be used to recycle the closed loop air system to reduce the amount of o2 being supplied from earth to mars, although having the available water and equipment to process the biomass is something that may need to be traded off to move to mars. but all good ideas
Hi, not yet. currently working on the testing system which may be a little different to the end product as it wont need all the sensors and testing equipment.
@@ScottyDIY If you get to make a working prototype I am sure you could sell it as a product make it whit a nice design and people will buy it into is out of stock
Yes, hopefully people do. I know a lot of people will not have to space or tools to build these scrubbers so i will try make a bunch or versions, Small, Big ect.
Thanks for the information bro, you are doing a positive impact, im keen to watch the other videos to create my own =)
Your idea is very interesting. Have you heard of the Elon Musk competition with a cash prize?
He said that he will put more details last week but he didn't
Thanks, yes I have. I'm always checking his tweets. I'm excited about the competition but at the end of the day with or without a cash prize I will continue to work on this, and make it as big as possible it just great to see more people interested in the problem.
@@ScottyDIY When will it complete?
@@ScottyDIY You inspire me :)
@@ScottyDIY would it be possible to release the plans to 3D print something at home so anyone can get on board and we can get them for every house?
Are you here after Elon musk's tweet?
I did have a spike in views, hopefully people stick around because this project is only going to get bigger!!
The idea is great although not new, but I think the design is flawed, the amount of energy you take from the wall outlet (35W for the pump) requires more carbon emission to create than the amount of carbon you capture with the algae. If the power to the pump would come from solar panels or other green energy, then yes it is a winner.
Hey, thanks for watching. And true offsetting any power usage by the algae would make it pointless, not sure how far you have got in the series but I talk about solar power as one of the points and also plans for the project. a lot of the testing phase of the project would be kind of counterproductive to co2 removal with all the sensors / equipment and materials for the test but is designed to produce more consistent results, after which I can design a more minimal system of parts power usage ect. and then look to other things like scaling of the system
@@ScottyDIY Yes but the key I think is decreasing the bubble's amount when the algae culture has risen to a certain level. Maybe that amount of pumped oxygen is too much. As you said, the system can only work with green energy. So places without sun exposure can't use it, or use wind power if possible (instead). If you plan to place these machines near the ocean, you can also think about wave energy.
Algae= 400 trees
Climate change: finally a Worthy opponent !!
Haha hopefully!
Ya if your talking about a tiny tree, or just make your scrubber as big as a tree.
I have made a small one for my window cill suing a 2 litre spagetti jar, a 1 watt air bubbler with diffuser stone which runs on a solar power bank. I have added 1 crushed chlorella tablet and some aquarium moss balls and capped the jar with a bath sponge.. When the water starts to go really green i'm gonna siphon it to water house plants. If the solar battery bank will keep it's charge and it is fully carbon neutral I am going to make one for the bedroom window as well. Thinking of adding some interesting aquarium ornament and getting some solar powered LED's to underlight it so it becomes decorative as well. Maybe a good homemade gift idea... I have got so carried away in fact that i might even get a fish tank to do the same thing and just grow plants and algae it it-but only if i can do it with solar power.
wow so you can use store bought DRIED algae to grow more?! Wish they would just explain that. hahaha
I was wondering if you think it would be possible to combine a VOC plant fungus with these liquid trees algae so that we could burn plastic and the fumes could be turned into oxygen? Like couldn't we bioengineer the fungus with the algae so that they work together to produce as much oxygen as possible from these harmful chemicals? Please reply if u think this idea is dumb or not id appreciate it..
The transportation dept of the US has the ability to put in 1 million swamp algae carbon capture and sequestration areas in cloverleafs and road verge next to highways today reducing carbon by untold amounts. Do you think they will?
would it make sense to keep one of these units indoors to reduce co2 levels? I'm thinking that it could really help with concerntration if i could lower indoor co2 levels to something like 500 ppm. Would the algae produce any nasty smells? Could a solar powered plant light help with the algae's photosynthesis during night/winter? Really liking this idea and series!
Hey thanks for watching, indoors could work but then you don't get as much sunlight, mass scale would work better outdoor or industrial size, either way if you clean air it will help, smells may be one thing but will need to test for anything like bacteria, and solar light would help as well
Thank you for what you show. That's very wonderful!
i am in vietnam and i am very interested in this topic. I also researched how to grow spirulina algae. Hope to get to know you and look forward to hearing from you!
Thankyou, more videos to come soon!
Very intuitive! I dig it. Keep it up!
Cheers, will do!
So I just got hit with a flash of how to adapt this to a full suit.
Guys. All those cool LEDs in gaming spacesuits. Make them grow lights. Tube the algae mix through the suit.
So you need to filter the CO2 from a coal or gas power plant or other versions of thermal power plants which produces CO2 and can be reprocessed using this bakteria
Ideally over time countries can move away from fossil fuel power plants. then all we need to do is work on fixing the issue that has already been made. unfortunately it may be some time before every country can go clean energy, so we need to find ways to reduce the Co2 now and as we scale up the carbon capture we reduce the need to use fossil fuels.
can growing cucumbers on a place that was crowded with trees before give as much oxygen than the trees do?
my actual question is that people are destroying the forests in order to grow food, but noone is talking how much oxygen corn can produce ?
Would you be able to use these in a bunker for oxygen generation
Hello Scotty! Hopefully you’ll see this message 😅, but I Was wondering where dd you get the algae sample… and which type of algae is like spirulina. Thank you great video!
I think a diffuser is perfect for air running through this
hi @ScottyDIY how to calculate thisunit = 400tree ?
Who is the psychopath that stuffed 400 trees inside this innocent bottle 😅
Scotty, microgreens are a serious answer to climate change, keep going, buddy!
Nice job! Keep on doing what you’re doing man ^-^
Cheers. Can’t stop now haha.
Epic man!
Thanks, should be a fun project , hopefully others try it as well.
can i use this on my submarine?
First I believe planting trees would help the climate, but now I understand it doesn't help at all. It only helps if you chop those trees eventually and make furniture or houses with it. That are ways to capture co2 and you can also bury the wood under ground. That is much more efficient than just planting more trees that eventually rot and give the co2 back to the atmosphere..
Such good info
Thanks, glad you liked it!
And what do we do with the algae once we've grown them? If we let them rot, they'll release the CO2 right back.
In general, if you’re not going to use the resulting biomass as a fuel, how would you properly keep the CO2 sequestered? Would you bury it?
Hey, good question, sequestering is the main purpose, Biofuel is one common option, which I will show and try but I have been working on a couple other things which I will run through those tests when the time comes hopefully can be a larger scale options, but burying it has never been an option I have wanted to go down
here's an idea, take the biomass and put it into a biodigester, and have methanogens digest it into CH4 and then burn it for fuel, take the resulting digestate, pasteurize it, and then put it on your plants or compost it to continue the sequestration process while generating a useful product for yourself and and your crops. keep making that black gold soil because that means you've sequestered more carbon into the soil in addition to the algae you are using to scrub co2 with. you started with microbial life you should end it with microbial life.
@@Meleeman011 But then again would the burning of CH4 generate more CO2, which you are trying to sequester in the first place. And biodigesters have one big big disadvantage: hydrogen disulfide (H2S). That stuff is a true and ugly killer, the tiniest trace of H2S can kill you in a closed space. At first you will be able to smell it, but it also burns away the receptors in you nose, so you won't be alarmed by the smell anymore. That's basically why you see all biodigester operations taking place in outside kitchens so ensure you won't die from H2S poisoning.
You are just better off cooking on induction plates, which are the most efficient way to heat pots and pans anyway. If you need to generate electricity, then built a GEK gasifier to run a generator. Wood gasifiers produce deadly CO gas, but you wouldn't run a genset in your house anyway. You are still using biomass to produce energy, so in the end it's the same.
Or running you genset on algea diesel if you can make it ;) But if the purpose is to genuinely live CO2 negative, you would have to simply bury the algea to be properly return the carbon to the earth once more.
Where is the link where i can make one? I want to know more of the concept
Hi this design I am making from scratch their is no link. My Initial learning came from reading online articles and also reading thesis's posted online. The initial system I am building is more based around testing different stains of algae and recording data, So basically a science experiment to prove the concept, once this is done I will focus on a larger system that is more suitable for replication by others. The system design will most likely be similar in design but I will hopefully work out any of the problems/design flaws along the way. As I release more videos on the system I will go through the steps on how I build and test each of the components, But I will also dedicate a video around the science of the system as well.
@@ScottyDIY so is the CO2 somehow injected into the algae solution by pumping the air?
basically yes. their is different ways of doing it, but I will stick with pumping air into the water tubes
@@ScottyDIY i have a tilapia pond and theres aerator in it. Then some of the water gets pumped into a compartment and once a while it gets filled with 'sediments' that i use to accelerate the decomposition of my compost. But then again some of it might be tilapia waste and not carbon from the algae. Do you have any literature and studies about the accumulated waste or sediments. I would like to know
What's the update on this man ?
This is cool
Thank you
Where can i buy one ?
This is surely the future right!? Is nassa using it on the space station?
It was used in the space movie “Stowaway” which was pretty cool
It was used in Rubikon movie also
Update on this brother ? Love the idea
Ive thought of making a big automatic version with an air bubbler
Yeah that’s the design. Check out the second video in the series it explains that exact concept.
@@ScottyDIY i did and its great, i plan on making something like this.
Where i can buy this ?
Where did you get the algae
So letting the algae grow on my wall makes sense
Wow
😋
#teamseas
Does it work in cold climates with little sun?
Yes, but it would not be as efficient, until I get all the data in I cant say about temperature, but sun is one of the key components. the sun could be replaced with lights but at what cost to run that light may negate the positive effects.
Can this be put on cars ?
How much does it cost to build one?
So interesting
Thanks, hopefully over time the results will be just as interesting!
How can we buy shares in algae?
How to make it
Can I buy one or make my own?
You can't buy these at the moment, I will go through videos on ways to make your own, I wouldn't suggest making this unit as it is based of testing and data needs which you probably wont need
Do you realise what this can do if you have one of these that can be exposed to sunlight in the back of a space suit instead of an oxygen tank you can generate your own oxygen from CO2 meaning that you could live on Mars you need to send this to NASA
I'm not sure how it would go in smaller systems with recycling a single user, but as a concept it could potently be used to recycle the closed loop air system to reduce the amount of o2 being supplied from earth to mars, although having the available water and equipment to process the biomass is something that may need to be traded off to move to mars. but all good ideas
Is this already available for purchase?
Hi, not yet. currently working on the testing system which may be a little different to the end product as it wont need all the sensors and testing equipment.
@@ScottyDIY If you get to make a working prototype I am sure you could sell it as a product make it whit a nice design and people will buy it into is out of stock
Can we make it at home?
Yes, hopefully people do. I know a lot of people will not have to space or tools to build these scrubbers so i will try make a bunch or versions, Small, Big ect.
@@ScottyDIY I'm from India.. we can use it as business.. entrepreneur ship
Just open a window ...........
You should make join venture with Elon Musk so make projects in Mars so the Oxygen is generated
Hello sir, Enactus Ramanujan a student run global organisation likes to contact you. Can you drop your mail sir?
Hey dude,
hi if u are participating in elonmusk competition pls let me to join in your team
Waiting for ur replay
I want to send photos and videos to show you the work I'm doing. You tell me the method eg gmail, facbock