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f. new methods in plant cultivation and animal breeding, micro organisms with amazing properties among, with such as, as a global shift towards renewable resources. when i'm at, i envision humans living in harmony with their environment. all the burning of fossil fuels is warming, the climate, agriculture, and fisheries, the spoiling nature. i ended up with this one 3rd of the world's fish. catched ends up as fish meal and animal fodder. we need to look at how we treat food and if a loaf of bread costs more than a chicken, how was that chicken being fat present? there are big challenges ahead. but luckily,

no lack of big ideas. need to do something we have to ex can the so called bio economy make our lives more sustainable with the hamburg surface mine in north west in germany, a place that like few others in europe clearly shows the destructive consequences of the fossil fuel age. plant research at all, i sure has mixed feelings when looking down into the 400 me to deep pit. this is susie surreal. to see all of this from up here to see the us it looks more

like art us. this least not highly frank. it's clear that this can't be sustainable hold of the few state's true, that in many places, coal, and other fossil raw materials were the basis for our prosperity today. and he's watched on by the hymns. what if we want to continue having this prosperity? because most people do wash done so then we must come up with really clever solution and solutions and fun. oh, i sure can envision a prosperous life without relying on fossil fuels with the help of the so called bio economy. coal should give way to plant fundy, insects, and bacteria, instead of extracting raw materials out of the us, they should be grown in the fields. this co field is going to be transformed into a bio economy area. and almost

can't just say we're getting out. we have to shape our future does as i does him. that's the structural change that will take place here. no. so, so i mean who and it's, we're not just saying we're leaving for and allowing it to flood with water. if we're trying to shape the entire region to not turning it into an area that has a completely different role, often by electron to me is not ready that new humans have been using renewable resources since time immemorial. research is like sure, however, once a completely transformed the time on an industry using the latest tools of biotechnology, genetically modified organisms increase available by a mass like microscopic living factories. bacteria produce chemicals. and biochemists will create new green products in their labs. back to the bio economy area. oh, sure. as a professor at the helm hurt center hewlett and has lived here for over 20 years.

besides the cold, this area is home to a 2nd. treasure was like you, it's a region with great soil from where you can produce a lot, come on. so this is a unique opportunity for us to implement something here in the region so that we never would have had otherwise for sure. the future begins with the return to what made this region flourish before the coal industry, the fertile farm land. oh mm hm. but what should this new age if renewable resources, the bio economy looked like in concrete terms. together with a local sugar producer sure is working to increase yields of a local crop the sugar beets.

ah, for this as this tolliver the under floods. the great thing about this plant is how quickly it is developed funds. if it went from being the size of a carrot to this in a few decades, the saw just goes to show the potential of a plant like this is understood. the real research work begins in the lab. sure wants to take a closer look at the root system of debates, by placing the plants in a scanner not available says with roots in particular, their surroundings, the soil environment has a great influence on how they're structured and function in soon. yes, that's why we must use tom graphic methods like this to understand what's happening below the surface. yet. for the experiment, scientists 1st create to radioactive carbon behind thick screened off walls.

they use this to vaporize the sugar beats in the climate chamber. the leaves absorb the carbon, which the roots then stool. the scanner can make this process visible. shorts, image sequences show how the plant absorbs the carbon with escapes. all we're trying to find heritable traits for cultivation. it's your stuff where you can say for example zog. i'm looking for roots that stretch particularly deep down or for geno types they caused this. the research is can tell from the images under which conditions the roots perform best. what soil conditions must be present. what climate? with this knowledge more robust and above all, high a yielding varieties can be cultivated

ah, that's can only cultivation alone produce enough by a mass for petroleum free economy. the truth is that with the help of technology, agriculture has grown as never before in the past century. this has been achieved by using heavy machinery, artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and accelerated breeding. most recently with the help of genetic engineering. but this success has come at a high price species, los depleted soils, water shortages, and the emission of greenhouse gases side effects that in some places are already causing yields to decline again. ah, ecologist shafan calling at sue of the university of castle examines the effects of

global biomass cultivation on nature. is it possible to match europe's consumption with this kind of production is resolved in total, germany's consumption of agricultural goods uses over $50000000.00 hectares. that's 3 times our domestic agricultural area of 17000000 hectares. it's a painful truth to keep europe in tables filled with food, forests, and other parts of the world must be cleared in specialists terms. this is called land conversion. well, that's all off division. one says history regarding land conversion, we have established that germany's sins lie in the past, so to speak. while if the cost the land conversion rates were at the highest,

the 2000 and up to 2015 words, not is land conversion and other regions of the world. you 2 are consumption of agricultural goods. in some regions, there were enormous conversion rates off 80 square meters per person that is, per german inhabitant on woburn can we produce more by a mass for new green products? this past is a great danger to rain forests and primeval forests. therefore, the goal cannot be the increased production of bio mass, but rather a more economical consumption. it doesn't matter whether we gray plants for food, energy, or materials. there's not an unlimited amounts of arable land on us. so are the foundations of the bio economy already crumbling, with an insufficient amount of biomass being produced.

a nondescript green house in eastern france, not far from no c. this is the realm of frederic bo ago. the professor of agricultural sciences has gathered plants from all over the world here. ah, ah, come on, come on for they were was he off at the inter john for buffy julia, this is a special cultivation for you. don't usually see these here in europe if wrong in china. there are large fields with this tree for raising. so forms all the take on sure. it's the white mulberry tree, though. the said thought offered to salvage of our swell arm office to the merely oblong. it's a plant that produces very special molecules capacitor. yes,

super antioxidants that have an anti inflammatory effect, don't she don't. and in fact, the molecules can be found in these bright yellow roots if it's a solar center. so pleasure to see he contin similarly, drill to protect their roots from predators, bacteria and funky plants have created countless defense mechanisms throughout the course of evolution. laplant last so soft, you them in eula to failure that false and cold. so, so 1000000 the new when plants moved from the sea to land 450 to 500000000 years ago, they had to deal with aggressors that were present in the soil. can you all these osx, therefore lay developed chemical warfare system in the natural substances to repel aggressor and can suddenly and prevent them from evolving at their expense or, or sometimes even to kill them all? buff world buffer. remember, louis tree burger wants to harness these defenses for plant based

cosmetics, new medicines, and biological pesticides. but to do so, he must 1st produce sufficient quantities of the wonder molecules. the key is a completely new form of plants. cultivation plants milking plants milking is based on a soil less cultivation method. the roots hang in the air and irregularly sprayed with a nutrient solution from below. to obtain the molecules, bogo simply dips them in an alcohol solution that washes out the active ingredients . this method keeps the roots on damaged, said that they can be milked again and again with some plants. so active ingredients, however, that doesn't work. the roots must be trimmed and boiled in a by a reactor. this low as the number of harvests, but the roots grow back in no time,

making them ready for another trimming that can plant milking, also produced by a mass on an industrial scale. they will provide sampler. she'll mill mcgahey the show for we can produce on a 1000 square meters area thought that's not a lot. 100 square meter is multiplied by 10 point on an area like that. we can produce a quantity of molecules for which you need at least 30 hector's outside in the field will since we can harvest to the fine roots in the field anyway, as we would probably need 60 or even a 100 actors, santo will selector according to bogo plant, now king thus requires a good $300.00 times less land than arable farming. the disadvantage is that the costs to the greenhouse is spraying systems and above all the nutrient solutions are high. that's why the process is not suitable for mass production that is mainly

used for molecules in expensive products. o'connor, la passivity. therefore these technologies allow us to produce molecules that are very valuable to certain industries. and they're used for things like pharmaceutical cosmetics, food production, and crop protection, which actually digital. ringback ah, as downtown company from bavaria is taking a different approach ah, with the help of an insect hush gang, vest, m i and thomas king, want to up cycle residual biomass dishwater. dr. young we've chosen the black soldier flies because it can consume the widest range of food and to artist waste fallen fruit, or even grass clippings, for example, people or even things like vegetable scraps are great food for the black soldier,

fly. and he told his foot of foolish fossil rudolf tune and vest m, i have found a dest up in 2020, the flies are intended to replace. so a and fish male, commonly used fodder in livestock forming. i'm just an uncharted yank language, a if you look at how agriculture actually works here in the you will not see over 90 percent of the soil and fish meal is imported. this means that rain, forests, and brazil are cleared in order to grow soil. did van, or that one 3rd of the world's fish catch ends up as fish meal and animal fathers fung. sla, awkward culture is no exception, so that when i eat fish from awkward culture, what i'm contributing to over fishing of the oceans, how you start to buy the semantic fishman. ah, instead of soy and fish meal, the father would be made from navi, if the soldier fly. not only do they provide protein to the animals, but they themselves can be fed by all kinds of biomass messages. mostly they're

extremely resilient. ah, the 2 shall be tonisha johnson are the natural habitat of the black soldier, fly. i, i'll just go ahead and say it is, it's actually manure feces. humans act as one characteristic of this insect is that it has a very robust immune system. might it? which means that it can be reared in a very stable manner without any disease is interfering in a foam note of munich, the insects, the fed, wheat brand, a residue from flower production that the company obtained from a neighboring mill, which has been mixed with minerals and water to form a nutrients laurie. after a week, when the maggots have reached that peak protein com sense their sieve to and fed a life to avoid long transport rates production takes place on the premises of an

animal brita. studies have already shown that photo made from insects can make animal breeding more environmentally friendly. the problem, however, is that the maggots do not grow equally well with old residual materials. so does the whole thing payoff. we couldn't believe or put a t m a sufficient. our production is both cheaper than fish meal, and again, the use of less energy among was although it needs heating. we have very good insulation here. oh, and after any given day, we hardly need to reheat if us, because the larva also amid warmth, when they have grown a bit, would c u. s embassy of oxygen conclusive to prevent more and more nature being sacrificed to intensive agriculture. the new green regime must rely primarily on by a master already available. for example, by turning the husks of wheat grain, weeks grand into protein, which maggot food. ah,

many other methods there also needed to efficiently process green rule materials on the way to creating new environmentally friendly products. this is a composting plants by hydro bag in the south of gemini. the biotechnology is rebecca hagen and d n. i could do my looking for clues in a pile of bio waste and food scraps is nothing unusual. so yeah, because of course you find these types of micro organisms exactly where there's a lot of plant ways to find the research is looking for previously unknown microbes in the humus. they contain enzymes and that's what hagar and do my i

looking for because these molecules have some amazing properties. enzymes the elements that soon to relieve tega and do my i want to use the natural power of enzymes to make products such as bio plastics and biofuels based more efficient and environmentally friendly duncan cadon cuz statesman. but, and some of the basic idea is that you can use, in semantic reactions to make many of the chemical processes. you find an industrial production much more energy efficient and more environmentally friendly virtual because for example, and you don't have to use toxic chemicals then missile. another project is the production of biofuels from straw. it's long be known how this raw material can be

processed into ethanol with the help of enzymes. but up to now, the process is not being efficient enough and fuel from straw is anything but competitive . cylinder replies, as long as the oil prices low, it's hard to get a more sustainable production process going and at the same time, make it economically profitable is done the to been the biotechnology company has already collected over 70000 micro organisms and enzymes and their use is expected to have a long term impact on the economy. back in early shoes, bio economy area. here to research is being conducted into the sustainable

processing of bio mass with the help of enzymes. wrong biochemist, nick vicks wants to harness their power to make a new kind of bio plastic out of waste from sugar beach production. exactly how that will be possible. he's demonstrating here in the lamb, the remnants from sugar production, a brown juice, and nothing more than a starter. the actual job is done by a fungus called booster lago made us also known as corn smart. dex puts this fungus into a so called for mentor and feeds it with the waste material from the sugar production. her fungus contains an enzyme that processes the carbohydrates from the waste material. this

produces is a conic acid and that so there is such as thereafter because separated from the microbial mass, it's a conic acid can be used to make plastic in just a few steps. it's a very interesting molecule that has functionalities that are not present in oil, those chemicals known. so it really allows for new properties, new kinds of products, new kinds of plastics, which we cannot make with all those products to make the fungus produce. even more acids vix genetically modified it. so if you just take a micro from the few, when you will use that in this process, you would maybe turn 10 percent of the sugar into the product. and by engineering, what we achieved in or for several years is to turn not 10 percent, but broader, 60 or 70 percent off the sugar into the final product. and this is actually the

maximum that you can achieve theoretically because they are still living things. and they still need a certain amount of sugar just to stay alive, integral ah, by using biotechnology, nick vx is turning a waste material into something new bio plastics. it replaces the petroleum products, comes from renewable resources and boosts the regional economy. but there is a downside. growing sugar, bates uses pesticides and fertilizers, which ultimately has a negative impact on the bio plastics environmental footprints. in addition, the waste from sugar bates is always ended up as animal fodder it forms or is the fertilizer in the fields? if in future they're processed into plastic, they'd be sorely missed there. ah, oil is also for nutrition and it's polluting the environment and it's changing the

climate. so i think we should try to make a most efficient use of the bio based resources we have. and his gum gum in many different forms. number one thing we focus on is waste streams from the food industry from biodiesel industry, which we can then feed through these micro so the power of enzymes can help to get more out of the available bio mass. but there's yet another challenge that challenge becomes more evidence with a raw material that's available in large quantities. woods woods is extremely robust. if it weren't trees wouldn't be able to live hundreds so often thousands of years. ah, but it takes decades for a dead tree. chung to roast only slowly do fun. gay with the help of specific enzymes get at the carbohydrates. it contains

theoretically would could also be used as a rule material for new forms of bio plastics. but to what nature does on a daily basis has not yet proven to be technically efficient enough. and more importantly, has not yet been achieved on an industrial scale is acquainted. harnessing the carbohydrate and would, is simply one of the biggest challenges in science which of at often university research is led by engineer you and feel a working on a solution to the problem simulation tests. so show how would can be broken down and further processed on a large scale thus was feeling, i'm feeling the truest site. nature has one thing that we don't, and that's time i thought the compost heap has years to decompose the longest. but

of course, we have to accelerate that movement in industrial processes so that we can become efficient and competitive at the end of the day. gee, f m o, during the tests, however, the research is miss deal with very immediate problems. clogged pipes is oscillating off. well, that's something we should avoid at all costs. you can only get rid of this stuff by hand and us and some everyday problems in the high tech lamp, an old to come on a shoe when working with pieces of woods and a constant nuisance with other bio mass as well. one thing is clear, this is not the way to win the race against petro chemicals. just put himself on the, almost as in all goals of at bio mass has huge potential. but petroleum has a headstart of more than a century up. you also have to heat up crude oil many times, but if you let the pipelines cool down, they get clogged than wood on the bio mass doesn't melt or evaporate wood, which means we have to find other ways to deal with these problems. council will

make bio mass work and have you must said this still a lot to discover hands quite a few problems to solve in bio mass processing. ah, and even if, if they slacks out the question remains, will the bio engineers boilers actually produce more sustainable and environmentally friendly products? the plastics manufacturer also has no illusions about the potential of buy a plastics for monday. january if you look at once floating around in the ocean and zia, a lot of plastic has been used because it is extremely durable. this means that bio plastics view, at least the biodegradable kind could,

will not solve the problem. at the end of the day, we all have a role to play. both the industry and consumers have to step up to find a reasonable approach by reasonable. the plastics manufacturer means above all better and more comprehensive recycling life. lenae lee was waiting for purple photography, so he actually does the movies didn't. one example is food packaging of if it's manufactured to be as thin as possible. at the same time, it must have a ceiling effect about cooking, oxygen from the food. it also keeping moisture in science or as was on and so it's made extra thin by using a little material. we think that often leads to many different types of plastics being used in several layers. so adversely. thereby, it becomes practically impossible to recycle that to alicia. you could just as easily, of course, develop plastic packaging that has recycle ability. thus, why isn't it happening today?

the answer is simple or diminished. a thin packaging is still cheaper than a slightly like a packaging, which is easier to recycle it because of her pocket didn't about the psych advice. sadly, this means that the new technologies of the bio economy will not solve the plastic problem any time soon. does it look more promising in the food sector? a company from bam bag produces meat substitutes. it's found a free trish boozer used to be a boot chair and spent years advising fast food chains and food companies. but he suddenly had a change of heart standing in a factory hole where millions of male chicks were shredded. ah, the assistant is the fact that we're actually dealing with a living being which we then kill. there is no other way to put it before we eat it

with him as being suppressed more and more. when you see how chicks are sorted on a very large scale between male and female, and then the ones that have the wrong sacks are sent flying into the shredder. well, i came to a point, i just couldn't do that anymore. it reuters, the from the pro seen induced is meet substitute is mostly source from green peas. he strives for sustainability through the company's entire supply chain. and all products come in recyclable packaging. the piece come from gemini farmers who cultivate them alongside potatoes. ah, does i got the answer from i showed up in the middle of potato harvest liquor. a farmer held up a potato that was bigger than my hand and shouted at me from the top of his lungs. while this is what we work with buddha potatoes like this, and you on me to plant these crappy little piece of it. so even back then we had to

convince people that small piece can be big business off of loser. gets to the proteins that the help of a giant staring rod. the peas, a he said to and mashed he then in which is the extracted proteins with numerous other ingredients. important fust unbalanced letting out so much in the house gummed on the, in the product that ultimately comes out of the machine. we have a protein content of about 30 to 35 per cent fiber that i've, that's $2.00 to $3.00 times more than what's in the p as i, which means i couldn't produce that at all. if i just took the p grounded up and put that in and it wouldn't be enough, was high shoals who's against additional protein from beans to lentils and oats. he changes the consistency with coconut fast, and then he adds lots of spices. of course,

he insists that no synthetic additives they used, but wouldn't it make more sense to just eat lentils than piece straight without his mid to be about dish maxine lip. mr. bow, magnificent wars. we also eat with our eyes espia, so we expect certain taste, disco. i hear some con, our prosperity as for example, reflected in the fact that we can eat very food and national. that's why you shouldn't just dream, but look at what is possible versus what can be done, homes. it's bobby, how can i contribute with something that will change the market and not? and if we now tell everyone that they should e p suit all day and have some lentils, and beans and betweens, not even people would be fed up with a poor digestion. after a couple of weeks i bought conferences, it's not really an option or tools only hamilton good. in the think next according to visit his meet substitute requires 10 times fewer resources than meat production. in fact, many experts see plant based nutrition is one of the most important tools for

environmental and climate protection citizens. those could, why was the 60 percent of the grain produced or imported in germany is used as animal fodder to produce grain. you need arable land. if you need less fodder, you also need less arable land. in other words, the shift to a more plant based diet will be crucial to reducing our land footprint. ah, food that protects nature and release is less c o 2. loser believes he's on the right track. a seed start up from finland is taking an even more radical approach. you have pick a pit cannon and pass the vine nika, one to produce food from sin at at least that's what they promised in their company's promotional film. there was a way to turn fields back to grossman's postures back to florida,

visits to food phones without sacrificing of freedom of choice, as consumers. by harvesting the seo tool and combining it with built nutrients, we all creating natural protein out the front of the robust food production is responsible for 25 to 30 per cent of greenhouse gas at last thursday. the rest comes from energy systems for which there are technologies to make them emission free for food production. there is no such thing. liada sto my ala turning air into food to might sound like alchemy. but the found to show how the miracle wax in their pilot plants, the key to success is once again, micro organisms. the met him office in guest gear. so on that me from the heart of our process, our microbes that we have found in nature and classified as safe. a total of

microbes are then grown in the bio reactor because similar to a fermentation take used in beer production ala volume. except we had hydrogen, which we extract using electricity that through and carbon dioxide, filtered from the air yolk via yokohama. good. i found elma, ah, the fin, so not the 1st to use microbes to produce food. nasa research as we're experimenting with this as early as the 1960s. they were looking for ways to use as few resources as possible to produce food for astronauts flying to alien planet and came across the so colds, hydrogen at tropes. hydrogen tropes have the special property of living solely on the elements, hydrogen, c, o, 2 and nitrogen. and they produce edible proteins. ah. but can the microorganisms be grown in sufficient quantities?

pit cannon and vine aka are developing a 4th step production process. in the 1st step, they filter c o 2 from the air. they also get hydrogen which is separated from water in industrial plants, then they mix in ammonia which can also be filtered out of the air. they then mix all 3 substances in a tank with the microbes which begin to grow with these nutrients. finally, all they have to do is dry the tanks contents and that generates the yellow powder cold slowly in the problem is that the production of sali and consumes large amounts of energy. but the fins envision sustainable sources for this energy in the future.

element bobby fire, go out or go on a little, but i'll alibi only bar milan reservoir, i'm a law we need solar when hydro energy, as or some other electricity produced from renewable sources with the cows on us as a 1st i got that a lot, but if you think about a certain area of land him avoid, aka, we can use that area 10 times more efficiently. how come you heard of his lot out of finale article solar panels have a certain efficiency. electrolysis has a certain efficiency disorder as a 5th bus and our growth process has a certain efficiency and it's about 10 times higher than that of plant cultivation to go with our cost by law. at the finish start up. the dream is to grow the microbes anywhere, does enough space and enough green energy that could be places that a hostile to life like does it? for example,

whether the yellow powder catches on ultimately depends on the consumer. in the labs kitchen, the 2 found to show us how to make it desert from sullen. oh, oh, good luck. yeah, no, it tastes neutral, just like it should look for saline, like i thought so, lane can be used in products that replace vegetable proteins or proteins and meat and dairy products last benefit on this area. you can also use it in bread and pastries. a mock as they thought, or, and pasta, while snack bars and ready to eat, meals yom volleyball up, go, go ahead. the alarm is up area and the, the plan is to launch sally in on the european market in 2 years, producing proteins without destroying nature, farmlands. it could be a game changer that 1st a lot of green electricity will have to be produced. a

journey through the wilds of the bio economy shows that there is no shortage of big ideas and old. the new farming methods and green products could make our lives a bit more sustainable. ma'am guns have done a lot of research on so we know that things can be done better. in many places, it's simply about putting it into practice. but it takes more than just a few prototypes to turn the dreams of the buyers. scientists into reality. the fossil industry giants aren't happy to give up their seat at the table for the bio economy to have its promised positive impact on climate and environments. fast and profound changes cold, full in a hope of from asylums us. in europe, we're talking about a turnover in the meat industry that is much higher than 300000000000 euros. steam

we're facing a powerful lobby and it's not an easy fight that is can overcome. but even the innovations of the bible economy have a fundamental limit. if the globe is not to be exploited to the last spec by a mass is and will remain a limited res, those ultimately, the planet is too small for us to be able to substitute everything we currently produce on a mineral basis with biomass. it's impossible. in a sustainable bio, the economy, resource consumption must decrease massively. we need more re cycling and re use. but the bottom line remains we, the consumers will also have to make due with less

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