And every time they do that, they get a tiny little packet of energy.

What foreign compound?

Or another way of writing it, it's change in y over change in x.

There are microbes, you know go back to yeast.

We found trace amounts of bioresidue.

There must be hundreds of them out there.

laid down by snow, season after season for thousands of years.

Simulator for chemical mixtures

This is my collaborator Ryota Kanai.

What if we were to separate out metals from waste streams, small amounts of metals in water?

Pasta is high in carbohydrates.

And so we started to work on this problem.

Close to graduation, we succeeded in making the protein of the spider silk and the synthetic spider silk by using genetically modified microbes although it was really a tiny amount.

Each storm scours the atmosphere, washing out dust, soot, trace chemicals, and depositing them on the snow pack year after year, millennia after millennia, creating a kind of periodic table of elements that at this point is more than 11,000 feet thick.

And part of the geoengineering scheme is to say,

I'm working on the trace elements.

They're everywhere.

So what next?

And here's the weapon, it seems, that it did so over the last 500 million years.

BBL's a liter in the field and only one PIV.

It's a compound used in negative matter rings.

And the what, I think, is that we returned, over and over again, to the Pre Cambrian world, that first microbial age, and the microbes are still out there.

Then there's some amount left over.

Work that was done in the labs you found.

I surmised that I could introduce

You see, you have all this healthy blood, liters and liters of healthy blood.

A chemical weapon, distilled from cyanide.

You can measure it again.

We inject our own aerosols into the atmosphere, and we have trace gases, and not just carbon dioxide it's methane, ozone, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen.

You have liters and liters of it in your body.

Wrappings contained minute trace of hydraulic fluid.

So its slope is just delta I'm still using the line tool again delta y over delta x.

So let's figure out the slope of this line.

Now the 'Na', let me be totally clear, is the Sodium part, and the 'Cl' is the Chloride part, that's what that means. And actually all atoms have an atomic mass unit. You can actually weigh the atoms and line them up by size by which is the smallest or largest in weight, and sodium weighs out at about 23 units.

It will create huge opportunities in technology.

I'm essentially using a kombucha recipe, which is a symbiotic mix of bacteria, yeasts and other micro organisms, which spin cellulose in a fermentation process.

The ocean provides a friendly environment, and chemicals detected in the plume of water are also favorable to microbial life.

I'll nicely demonstrate that for you. (Laughter)

Although they could have been used as a carrier

So the slope of my secant

That is your change in y.

They all deserved to win, but there's the element of luck.

Microorganisms is that help us digest.

line is going to be the change in y divided by the change in x.

Peter Ward