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The Algal Solution

Discover the potential of algae for addressing global challenges such as deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, overfishing, and job creation. This revolutionary solution can increase protein yield, remediate oceanic dead zones, and pay for the reengineering of electrical generation. Explore the economic and environmental benefits of the next green revolution.

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The Algal Solution

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  1. The Algal Solution Global Environmental Restoration and Nutrition for Fun and Profit

  2. The Green Revolution Was Beneficial ... and not just for reducing global hunger. It also reduced global: • Deforestation • Greenhouse gas footprint "Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification" Jennifer A. Burney, Steven J. Davis, and David B. Lobell Stanford University, 2010

  3. Trouble Ahead.... "Despite inevitable uncertainties, the analysis of the food system presented in this Report makes clear that the global food system between now and 2050 will face enormous challenges, as great as any that it has confronted in the past. The Report carries a stark warning for both current and future decision-makers on the consequences of inaction – food production and the food system must assume a much higher priority in political agendas across the world. To address the unprecedented challenges that lie ahead the food system needs to change more radically in the coming decades than ever before, including during the Industrial and Green Revolutions." "The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability" Foresight. The Future of Food and Farming (2011) Executive Summary.The Government Office for Science, London.

  4. The Next Green Revolution:  Algae The Algal Solution will: • Increase protein* yield by more than a factor of 100** • Indirectly consume CO2 via reforestation • Directly consume CO2 as protein yield • Remediate over-fishing • Remediate oceanic dead zones • Provide an explosion in job creation • Pay for the reengineering of electrical generation • Decrease geopolitical tension *The main requirement of the next green revolution is protein production **Without genetic engineering of existing strains

  5. The Human Footprint • GIVEN • World population stabilized at 15 billion • High value meat protein intake at 30% of calories • High calorie active lifestyle for health • 3.2 calorie/gram protein net metabolizable energy • ALGAL SOLUTION • Over 50% of arable land remediated to nature including rain forests • African species protected • Ocean ecosystems restored • Greenhouse gas emissions plummet

  6. Specialized soybean strains grown in the Amazon basin 3000 kg beans/hectare/yr* 34% protein content 1020 kg protein/hectare/year *The Environmental Impacts of Soybean Expansion And Infrastructure Development in Brazil’s Amazon Basin GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE WORKING PAPER NO. 09-05 Natural algae strains PBR- grown in the US desert SW 200,000 kg algae/hectare/yr** 60% protein content 120,000 kg protein/hectare/yr **This study. Increased Protein Yield

  7. Algae Photobioreactor Infrastructure

  8. INPUTS Carbon Dioxide Water Ammonia Dolomite Phosphate Potash Sulfur Manganese Chloride  Ammonium Heptamolybdate OUTPUTS Algae (dry weight) Protein (algal) 5 gigatons 2 gigatons 1 gigaton 1 gigaton 400 megatons 150 megatons 70 megatons 5.5 megatons 2.5 megatons 8 gigatons 5 gigatons Photobioreaction Process All figures in metric per year.

  9. INPUTS Borosilicate Glass Stainless Steel Natural Gas Moso Bamboo Strand Board Land (photobioreactors) Land (bamboo plantations) OUTPUTS Carbon Dioxide (recycled) Foundries Slag Glass, Steel and Bamboo 1.2 gigatons 163 megatons 200 giga cubic meters 183 mega cubic meters 434,000 square kilometers 19,000 square kilometers 829 megatons To be determined 10 year recycle Photobioreactor ConstructionAll figures levelized in metric per year.

  10. Price Supports Algae (dry weight) Carbon Dioxide (FOB) Carbon Dioxide (delivered) Ammonia (FOB) Ammonia (delivered) H2O MSF (FOB) H2O MSF (delivered) MSF=Multistage Flash (distilled) 75 cents/kg 4.6 cents/kg 5.7 cents/kg 86 cents/kg 90 cents/kg 0.144 cents/kg 0.618 cents/kg

  11. Economic Impact JOBS Skilled Unskilled Total including indirect Labor force participation MACRO Added to GDP With Multiplier 8 million 5 million 50 million 85% (up from 64%) $474 billion $867 billion

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