That is to say, microalgae contributes between 2,000 and 5,000 gallons per acre per year, compared to the 50 gallons per acre per year from soy.

So let me show you how the system works.

But in all cases, the water that's released is perfectly adequate for growing microalgae.

what are some examples of sustainable proteins?

Now, we grew algae in waste water, and we built tools that allowed us to get into the lives of algae so that we could monitor the way they grow, what makes them happy, how do we make sure that we're going to have a culture that will survive and thrive.

So let's envision what the system might look like.

The laboratory that we set up in Santa Cruz was our skunkworks.

Miguel, what makes your fish taste so good?

The connection with the machine is much more easy, much more even ethically possible.

These are things that are getting into our food chain because of these blooms.

He pointed at the algae.

So the column actually had another very nice feature, and that is the algae settle in the column, and this allowed us to accumulate the algal biomass in a context where we could easily harvest it.

Those blooms are generating other kinds of chemicals.

Fish tried amphibian life. Frogs adapted to deserts.

There's one last elephant in the room, the proteins themselves, which come from algae and bacteria and fungi, and all over the tree of life.

The waste water that leaks out is water that already now goes into that coastal environment, and the algae that leak out are biodegradable, and because they're living in waste water, they're fresh water algae, which means they can't

So you have this little algal forest, and in the size of a laptop you can find more than 100 species of algae, mostly microscopic fit hundreds of species of little animals that then feed the fish, so that the system recovers.

Our research covered the biology of the system, which included studying the way algae grew, but also what eats the algae, and what kills the algae.

Imagine that we build an enclosure where we put it just underwater, and we fill it with wastewater and some form of microalgae that produces oil, and we make it out of some kind of flexible material that moves with waves underwater, and the system that we're going to build, of course, will use solar energy to grow the algae, and they use CO2, which is good, and they produce oxygen as they grow.

We end up with things we've heard about before red tides, for example, which are blooms of toxic algae floating through the oceans causing neurological damage.

And you show up, and it's dead.

Seaweed.

So that light was made by a bioluminescent dinoflagellate, a single celled alga.

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We put waste water and some source of CO2 into our floating structure, and the waste water provides nutrients for the algae to grow, and they sequester CO2 that would otherwise go off into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas.

The petrochemical industry, the hydrocarbon industry spends a lot of money advertising.

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It'll be a piece of kelp.

And then he's off, launching into more talk about rare birds and algaes and strange aquatic plants.

The ideal savanna landscape is one of the clearest examples where human beings everywhere find beauty in similar visual experience.

But how, why does that actually makes sense?

But anyway, there we have it.

He drew the connections between the larger changes in our civilization and this pattern that was now visible in the atmosphere of the entire planet.

But this is a bit like putting your head in a plastic bag.

My fellow plankton came in all sizes, from tiny algae and bacteria to animals longer than a blue whale.

It's information.

So this x minus y is going to be equal to 3 and 3 and 6.

I did that for two reasons.

They just treat me as another human being (laugh)

(High pitch sound) We drifting animals are called zooplankton.

Intimacy for us means a lot of different things.

I became a rocket ship, a pluteus larva.

(Laughter)

But there is a remainder, and this is the remainder.

And even within differential equations, we'll learn later there's a different type of homogeneous differential equation.