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How the aerium Works in Conjunction With Your Houseplants – AlgenAir

Algae start-ups: from pond slime to time for supper

The choice meals sector has produced “ecovados” created from broad beans, plant-based beef, chickpea water eggs and California start-up Wildtype’s lab-grown salmon. Algae could beat all of them. Its versatility means this aquatic slime could be become each meals and gas. Most start-ups deal with microalgae relatively than seaweed, aka macroalgae. Microalgae are single-cell organisms. They are often cultivated in freshwater or seawater, in each the sunshine and the darkish. The protein content material of dried microalgae is larger than that of soyabean — a crop that requires extra water to farm and has led to deforestation. Microalgae is already being utilized in dietary supplements and meals. Triton Algae Improvements has raised $10mn for its algae-based tuna different. New Wave Meals has raised $20mn to create fake shrimp utilizing algae. The market stays small — lower than $3bn as of final 12 months. One important draw back is the grassy or fish style. Brevel makes use of microalgae grown in a lab to create a protein that’s impartial tasting and could be added to plant-based meals. However this requires further processing. If that sounds unappetising, algae will also be used to create supplies. US start-up Main Ocean creates farmed seaweed in refineries that may be transformed into bioplastics and fertiliser. Aurora Algae produces algae-based merchandise for pharmaceutical and gas markets. California’s World Algae received an early-stage prize from Elon Musk’s carbon removing competitors this 12 months with its plan to domesticate algae and restore rainforests by capturing carbon dioxide. Pittsburgh start-up AlgenAir makes use of algae for air filtration techniques that scale back carbon dioxide. It has a air flow system at Pittsburgh worldwide airport. However algae’s doable use as a biomass gas is determined by mass manufacturing. In Japan, firms together with Honda are a part of a group engaged on microalgae gas improvement. One possibility could possibly be to make use of the algae that already exists. Rising temperatures have led to a document algae bloom in San Francisco Bay, for instance. Algix harvests algae blooms that take over freshwater techniques and have been linked to air pollution and local weather change. It dries out the algae collected and makes use of it to create a Bloom Foam polymer. Manufacturers corresponding to Clarks and Adidas are already utilizing the fabric, proving the flexibility of this micro-organism. If you’re a subscriber and want to obtain alerts when Lex articles are printed, simply click on the button “Add to myFT”, which seems on the high of this web page above the headline. Originally published at San Jose News HQ

Black And White Angry Birds: AwesomeCast 446

Black And White Angry Birds: AwesomeCast 446 @sorgatron @chilla @buzzkillprof

  Professor Buzzkill joins Sorg and Chilla as we talk this week (and this century) in tech:

Chilla is sharing his Pixel 3a as his Awesome Thing of the Week.

Sorg was able to attend the AlphaLab Gear Hardware Cup event to experience it up close and personal behind a live stream rig as his Awesome Thing of the Week.

Sorg had an opportunity to check out Yodel Labsand their AR positioning as part of…

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