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Monday, March 30, 2026

Endless Energy, Endless Food, Endless Resources, and More

Stop Buying Expensive Batteries — Build This 1.6 MW Lifetime Battery Instead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBW7djD1BBU

https://www.youtube.com/@MrElectron

Plant Once, 500 lbs a Year. The Superfruit Emperors Died For. BANNED in 60 American Cities. Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giIXI5d6XwA

https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault

Endless Fresh Water:

- I didn't think that how people made money would be such a big problem but it's a big contributor to our problems?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/organised-crime-background-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
Could Texas Run Out Of Water? Wall Street Is Betting Big On It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfzwLtWkVjg
https://www.youtube.com/@moreperfectunion
When Will The World Run Out of Water?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-lLJlhWDMc
https://www.youtube.com/@pbsterra
Keep This Filter FOREVER. (Why WW2 Soldiers Used Clay)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6M0Ei89neY
How To Purify Toxic Water For $0 (SHTF Bio-Filter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_ZdZxmC4Ss
https://www.youtube.com/@GridZeroLog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay
The 'Forbidden' Roman Water Trick That Purified River —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEveSRvY-wo
https://www.youtube.com/@HistoriaPrime1212
Connecting Two Metals Purifies ANY Water — The "Earth Filter" Secret They Buried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQtDcLY8Rzw
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenCamping
The $50 Water Filter That Outlasts Any $5,000 System. Why Don't They Sell It?
This video uncovers the forgotten water technology that quietly outperforms $5000 reverse osmosis systems without electricity, replacement cartridges, or recurring costs. For over 200 years, slow sand filtration has protected cities and families from deadly waterborne disease. Yet today, most homeowners have never heard of the BioSand filter.
We trace the story back to 1829 London, where engineer James Simpson proved that sand could stop cholera and typhoid at city scale. Then to 1991, when Dr. David Mans redesigned that same principle into a $50 household system that now serves over two million families worldwide. No subscriptions. No membranes. No service calls. Just biology, gravity, and time.
You will learn how the Schmutzdecke a living biological layer inside the filter actively consumes pathogens, how BioSand compares to reverse osmosis and Berkey systems, why it remains absent from hardware store shelves, and how regulatory and economic incentives shape what products reach your home.
We also break down the ceramic pot filter an $8 to $30 locally made solution that removes 99.99 percent of bacteria and explain exactly how both systems can be built using freely available manuals and common materials.
If a technology lasts 25 years, costs less than a single replacement cartridge, and works during blackouts and boil notices why is it not sold to you?
#WaterIndependence #OffGridLiving #WaterFiltration #Preparedness #SelfReliance
The $50 Water Filter That Outlasts Any $5,000 System. Why Don't They Sell It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMh2lhWf6JA
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
How to Make a Water Filter With Available Items (Enhanced Microbial Removal) - DIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjEb5zRPPx8
https://www.youtube.com/@CityPrepping
Before war broke out across the Middle East, Tehran was perilously close to running out of water, a situation known as day zero. But Madani is quick to point out that this is not uniquely an Iranian problem.
Cape Town, Chennai and São Paulo have all faced their own day zeros. Water is vanishing from Lake Urmia in Iran, but also from the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, the Dead Sea in Israel, and the Great Salt Lake in the US. "It's everywhere," he says.
He is equally impatient with the idea that political change alone could fix it. "There is this belief that Iran would become Switzerland overnight if the Islamic Republic disappeared, but if day zero arrives and the reservoirs are empty, it doesn't matter who is in power. There is no water to pump, there is no water to allocate."
...
As a UN official he must remain diplomatic and impartial, even when events in Iran weigh heavily on him. "I feel like I'm working with a map of the world in which Iran would be dark because anything I say about it is politicised."
He added: "People who supported me ask me why I'm not speaking out more. But when you are an international civil servant, your heart is there, yet you still have to follow the protocols."
In his acceptance statement he wrote that water does not wait for politics. "Water bankruptcy is a common threat that transcends every military line. We must recognise our shared vulnerability if we are ever to find our shared peace."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/18/iran-scientist-exile-wins-stockholm-water-prize-kaveh-madani
My Grandpa's Amazing Free Water Purification Method (Still Working After 60 Years) –Few People Know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DJani58pxo
https://www.youtube.com/@cleverlab2025
Reverse Osmosis - The Only Water Purification That Stops What's Actually Killing You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDbCRaNPT3w
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
water nets
How Germans Produce Millions Liters of Water In Sahara Desert Using Unbelievable Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2OtkH7-KVw
https://www.youtube.com/@Mandarintechmido
The Medieval Well Drill — How to Access Groundwater Without Modern Machinery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgAGcXI_AM
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
- dynamic environments are your best friend for energy creation as well as water creation/storage. Humans haven't really mastered drilling technology but they can definitely shift large amounts of dirt. Undulations are fantastic for dealing with floods, existing groundwater systems which have been depleted can be used to store, etc...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-01/severe-weather-warning-victoria-thunderstorm-rain-emergency/106402136
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-01/record-rain-in-eyre-peninsula-sa-west-coast/106401748
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-01/could-lake-eyre-finally-reach-capacity-after-decades/106395774
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicircular_bund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater
which countries get floods and droughts annually
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-worst-hit-countries-increasing-floods-and-drought-have-forced-people-flee-8
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/floods-and-droughts-forced-people-to-flee-8m-times-in-worst-hit-countries-last-year-number-doubled-in-decade/
Water-related disasters forced people to flee from their homes nearly eight million separate times in 10 of the world's worst-hit countries last year, with many having to move multiple times – a 120% increase compared to a decade ago, said Oxfam today.
On World Refugee Day, Oxfam says that in five of those countries, levels of severe hunger have nearly tripled over the same period.
Somalia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, Ethiopia, India, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Malaysia topped the list of countries that suffered the largest displacement of people from floods and droughts last year, according to the Global Internal Displacement Database. In those countries, the number of times people were displaced from their homes soared from 3.5 million in 2013 to 7.9 million in 2023.
Climate change has increased the intensity and frequency of floods and droughts. According to data collated by Oxfam, recorded flood and drought disasters in those ten worst-hit countries have skyrocketed from just 24 in 2013, to 656 last year. Somalia alone was hit by 223 different flood or drought events in 2023 against just two in 2013, for instance. The Philippines was hit 74 times (compared to just three in 2013), Brazil 79 times compared to four, and Malaysia 127 times compared to just once in 2013.
Globally, floods and droughts alone have forced over 3.4 million people out of their homes just last year – as many as the entire population of Uruguay.
Oxfam calculated that in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Somalia – which are among the least prepared to cope with the impact of climate change – the number of people suffering acute hunger has risen from 14 million in 2013 to over 55 million in 2023.
"Climate injustice is rife. From the scores dying from scorching heat in Bangladesh to the thousands forced to flee floods in Pakistan, it is the most vulnerable people – and those least responsible for the climate crisis – who are bearing the brunt, while rich polluting nations continue to do too little too late to help them," says Nuzhat Nueary, Oxfam Water Insecurity and Climate Policy Coordinator.
https://media.oxfam.org.au/2024/06/in-the-ten-worst-hit-countries-increasing-floods-and-drought-forced-people-to-flee-8-million-times-last-year-over-twice-that-of-a-decade-ago/
- stick a pipe with reverse osmosis filter stuck to it to the bottom of the ocean. Instead of relying on active energy to force salt water through the reverse osmosis filter you use the pressure of the ocean to help push the salt water through the filter. Fresh water goes into the centre which you can pump to where you want? You can even send it where you want passively by using a solar stove and heating element down the middle of this pipe to vapourise the water and send it where you want? For instance, up hill to a reservoir which then gravity feeds down to line which leads to where you want? Robots can perodically clean the system? Another interesting alternative would be to just use passive pumps to push it to surface
The "Capillary Action" Secret: Why Engineers Use Cotton Ropes to Water Plants for Weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oojhl4hung0
https://www.youtube.com/@Benogarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
how much pressure do you need for reverse osmosis
https://nuaquasystems.com/blogs/news/understanding-water-pressure-its-crucial-role-in-reverse-osmosis-systems
RO requires pressure between 2–17 bar (30–250 psi) for fresh and brackish water, and 40–82 bar (600–1200 psi) for seawater. Seawater has around 27 bar (390 psi)[11] natural osmotic pressure that must be overcome. As for their energy consumption, seawater RO systems typically require 2.9-5.5 kWh/m3,[12] although state-of-the-art systems are around 2.3 kWh/m3.[13]
Membrane pore sizes vary from 0.1 to 5,000 nm. Particle filtration removes particles of 1 μm or larger. Microfiltration removes particles of 50 nm or larger. Ultrafiltration removes particles of roughly 3 nm or larger. Nanofiltration removes particles of 1 nm or larger. RO is in the final category of membrane filtration, hyperfiltration, and removes particles larger than ~0.2 nm.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
pressure by sea depth
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/nemo1998/education/pressure.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench
https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-facts/why-is-pressure-different-in-the-ocean/
are there any fibres which can transfer water passively via capillary effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action
Wicking is a spontaneous flow of liquid in porous materials, such as fabrics. The flow is driven by capillary forces. Wicking means movement of the liquid into the capillary spaces of the fabric: between the fibers in yarns and between the yarns in fabrics [10,13]. Wicking can only take place when the liquid wets fibers creating the textile material due to the capillary spaces existing between them. The resulting capillary forces drive the liquid into the capillary spaces [11,13]. Thinner gaps between the individual fibers cause increase of the capillary forces. Thus, finer fibers will create smaller gaps in the fabric structure, and in consequence better moisture transport.
The wicking in textile materials is a very complex phenomenon. Generally, we should distinguish vertical and horizontal wicking. In vertical wicking tests, the fabric sample is placed vertically and the bottom of the specimen comes into contact with water. Then, the wicking distance by specified time intervals is recorded. The higher the wicking distance at the same interval, the better the fabric is in wicking [14].
The height of a liquid column in a capillary is given by Jurin's law [15]:
Liquid Moisture Transport in Cotton Woven Fabrics with Different Weft Yarns
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9504572/
Performance of Wicking through Yarn and Fabric Made from Polyester Fibres of Different Cross-sections
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.textile.20140303.02.html
https://thygesenapparel.com/blog/moisture-wicking-fabric
How Romans Made Water Flow Uphill?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y5XWkfKV0XY
https://www.youtube.com/@globalbackstory1/shorts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_dynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiggle_syphon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram
We Found Water For The Pond - Hydraulic Ram Pump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqOhHcTzeM
https://www.youtube.com/@HometownAcres
How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdyqTGx32A
https://www.youtube.com/@PracticalEngineeringChannel
Can a Hydraulic Ram Pump Make a Perpetual Motion Loop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NHVmOchAgI
https://www.youtube.com/@TheActionLab
Strong Pressure! How to make Free Energy Water Pump NO Electricity Auto Pump 24h/Day, What to See?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Rlp8GD5ew
https://www.youtube.com/@learnfordaily1619
passive water pump
https://www.wired.com/story/water-pump-without-electricity/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosiphon
- another alternative version is a submersible capsule/vessel that has part of it made of reverse osmosis filter through which you drag through the sea from shore and back much like in oyster farms? It fills with fresh water which you can then harvest? Obviously less efficient then previous version but more manageable? It's low tech, easily repairable, and more accessible for developing countries and poorer areas though?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawling
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=oyster+farm
Maine oyster farm hopes new harvesting system will revolutionize industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymhoestH9x0
https://www.youtube.com/@WMTW
How Deep Sea Water is Now Drinkable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu_IcFpEkg0
https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedTechnology
how much pressure is required for reverse osmosis
The Basics of Water Pressure
Water pressure is the force exerted by the flow of water in a plumbing system. It's what pushes the water through your pipes and out of your faucets, showers, and, yes, your RO system. Water pressure is typically measured in pounds per square inch (PSI), and the ideal range for most residential and commercial settings varies but generally falls between 45 to 80 PSI.
https://nuaquasystems.com/blogs/news/understanding-water-pressure-its-crucial-role-in-reverse-osmosis-systems
https://www.filpure.com.au/how-to-extend-the-lifespan-of-your-reverse-osmosis-system/
does fine sand filter halophiles
https://royalbrinkman.com/knowledge-center/technical-projects/water-filter-technologies-horticulture/sand-filter
https://cropaia.com/blog/sand-filtration-5-interesting-facts/
Recommended Operations and Optimization Goals - Slow Sand Filtration - 331-601 • Updated 6/3/2021
https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/Documents/Pubs//331-601.pdf
- if we have access water in some parts of the world we can use empty ships to transfer water water around the world? It's the equivalent of Uber/Gig Economy for freigther ships? Better use of money then garbage foreign aide projects which genuinely don't help people except those from the donor country?
are any freight ships empty that travel to and from africa
are any freight ships empty that travel to and from south america
New analysis from Danish liner consultancy Sea-Intelligence shows the growing percentage of empty containers moving around the world.
Experts at Sea-Intelligence have calculated the share of empties relative to full containers, based on teu-miles, and found out that currently 41% of container transport is empty.
"The present situation is that for every 10 miles a full container is shipped, there is now a need to ship an empty container 4.1 miles – sharply up from 'just' 3.1 miles in 2019, before the pandemic market disruptions," Sea-Intelligence explained in its latest weekly report, noting a five-year increasing trend, with only a minor temporary reduction in 2022 (see chart below).
Discussing the issue of empty containers, Acumen Freight Solutions, a Karachi-based freight forwarder, noted in a recent social media posting that trade rarely flows evenly between countries.
"Some regions export far more than they import, while others are primarily import-driven. This creates container imbalances where one port is overflowing with empties while another struggles with shortages," Acumen explained, pointing out that ports in Asia often face container shortages due to high export volumes, while ports in North America and Europe may see surpluses as more imports arrive than exports leave.
https://splash247.com/41-of-container-transport-is-empty/
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/empty-containers-now-make-up-41-of-global-shipping-new-report/
are any freight ships empty that travel to and from asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gig_worker
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
- if you harvest from storm water drains how much do you get? How many countries and people don't need their massively integrated, centralised, expensive infrastructure and can genuinely go off the grid?
Water your yard FOR FREE !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGsuOyzyYcI
https://www.youtube.com/@suburbanbiology
rainfall by country
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.PRCP.MM
https://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/rainfallEvents/worldRecRainfall.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_precipitation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_yearly_temperature
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Wolff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-Joon_Chang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)
Corporations Control Our Governments: Here's How | Aaron Bastani meets Matt Kennard | Downstream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsp2apG5zQ
https://www.youtube.com/@NovaraMedia
Here's Why Foreign Aid Is a Scam | Doha Debates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfnojfvwY5Q
https://www.youtube.com/@DohaDebates
Foreign Aid: Are we really helping others or just ourselves? | Maliha Chishti | TEDxUTSC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJ6p0B5V_A
Friendly Fire: How Foreign Aid Hurts Development | Abhishek Parajuli | TEDxOxford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Q3zWv0Evw
To create wealth, let´s move from aid to trade: lessons from Haiti | Daniel Jean-Louis | TEDxUFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueiBSm3jDZU
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
- snow clearly more available in northern then southern hemisphere? Is it realistic for man made rivers to drain snow from mountains in northern hemisphere to Asia, Middle East, and Middle American regions? Obviously, these are capital, labour, resource, etc... intensive projects but they provide a ready access of naturally available water for parched regions? The only worries for water are then South America, Australia, and Africa (I've thought about bridging Europe and North Africa + North America and South America but obviously a project of that magnitude just seems beyond current political and technological capabilities available on Earth). The other irony is that that there are mountains with snow on them even in these regions? Can you use this same concept to create fresh water elsewhere as well? Can you create man made/artificial mountains to reduce incidence of tornadoes/cyclones, reduce topsoil loss, provide fresh water downstream, drop temperature, help condensate water, restore ecosystems, etc? The interesting thing is based on what I've seen land doesn't really require a huge amount of water to be arable. Even if it's just limited slowfall that liquifies and leads to a river or lake it may be enough to reboot/maintain ecosystems? The other funny thing is that a common complaint for snowy counties is how cold it is constantly? Would moving snow (as water) elsewhere towards more arid countries re-balance/re-dress this?
What Happens To Mount Everest's Over 110,000 Pounds Of Waste? | Inside Everest | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yo7hskqSg0
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
global map snow cover
Snow Cover
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps/MOD10C1_M_SNOW
Overall negative trends for snow cover extent and duration in global mountain regions over 1982–2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16743-w
https://pedalchile.com/blog/southern-hemisphere-snow
https://www.onthesnow.com/southern-hemisphere/skireport
https://planetski.eu/2023/06/01/the-southern-hemispheres-snowiest-ski-resorts/
do north african mountains get snow
https://www.quora.com/Does-it-snow-in-Northern-Africa-ever
https://insight.ng/africa/snowfalls-in-africa/
do south america mountains get snow
https://medium.com/@kadeinmurrayn/does-it-snow-in-south-america-2b8c7b2c1888
global map lakes on mountains
The Andes Mountains, particularly in countries such as Argentina, Chile, and Peru, receive snowfall during the winter months. Factors influencing snowfall in South America include altitude and latitude. The higher the altitude, the lower the temperature and the higher the chance of snowfall.
https://www.whatarethe7continents.com/lakes-of-the-world/
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-map-of-Earth-system-mountain-types-top-cf-Figure-2-and-of-water-resources_fig2_228616164
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/13510/cold-and-snow-in-south-america
https://doesitsnowinfo.com/where-does-it-snow-the-most-in-south-america/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/77156/snow-in-the-atlas-mountains-of-morocco
global map waterfalls
https://www.world-of-waterfalls.com/about-us/
https://www.world-of-waterfalls.com/interactive-destinations/
https://www.mapsofworld.com/answers/geography/highest-waterfalls-world/#
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/largest-waterfall.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
- lot's of interesting water recovery projects in pay at the moment? Some are basically nets which condensate misty air and then funnel this into containers of water. Perfect for humid/foggy areas? Can you fit them to aircraft/airship send them up into the atmosphere via airship to collect raincloud water? Would there be consequences/side effects to this? ~600 sqm project.
https://www.wasserstiftung.de/en/cloudfisher/
Check Out This INSANE Tech That Makes Water Out of Thin Air!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4BDewgWROw
https://www.youtube.com/@thetesladomainofficial
https://darsihmad.org/
Atmospheric Water Generation Technologies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgRWFBdqj8
https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_knitting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitted_fabric
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Raschel_knit&redirect=no
Water from the air. Homemade atmospheric water generator (AWG)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94SbtFgUv34
https://www.youtube.com/@MrYazdan
How to harvest drinking water from the air
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LgPypZV_liA
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
When Aissa Derhem told the Moroccan government he could harvest water from thin air, they thought he was joking. The desert was winning. Wells were running dry. Villages were emptying out. And here was a mathematician from a mountain village saying he could catch clouds with nets. The engineers had tried everything. Dams. Irrigation canals. Deep-drilled wells funded by international aid. Millions of dollars poured into the Moroccan Anti-Atlas, and the region kept dying. So when Derhem and his team showed up with mesh fabric stretched between poles—something that looked like a volleyball net left out in a field—nobody took them seriously. The government officials shook their heads. They had hydrologists, civil engineers, water management experts with decades of experience. They had built infrastructure across the country. And now someone wanted them to believe that fabric on a mountaintop could solve a crisis that had resisted every serious intervention for thirty years. The local farmers watched and waited for these outsiders to fail, just like everyone else had failed before them. The elders remembered when the land was green. They didn't believe it could happen again. Fourteen years later, those same government officials came to see what Derhem built. The world's largest fog-harvesting facility. Over 1,700 square meters of nets pulling water out of the sky. Sixteen villages now have running water in their homes. Women who used to walk four hours a day hauling jerrycans now run agricultural cooperatives. Girls who dropped out of school to fetch water are graduating. But to understand how nets on a mountain saved a region, you have to understand what was killing it.
How Morocco Is Creating Water Out Of Thin Air In The Desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yAdp4yx0Y8
https://www.youtube.com/@EarthFreshChannel
https://www.wasserstiftung.de/en/our-projects/cloudfisher/
- ~95% water needs can come from rainwater off of 400sqf roof. Curb cuts to divert gutter flow to plants
Fighting Drought With an Ancient Practice: Harvesting the Rain | Retro Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGPxTqMYfNE
https://www.youtube.com/@RETROREPORT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_Singh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson,_Arizona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River
- water charging during wet times only viable in areas with seasonal wet times. Can you create rivers to cause water to flow towards water batteries/acquifers? Plant type can help conserve/save water type as well
5 Most Epic Earth Healing Projects!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpozw1CAxmU
https://www.youtube.com/@amillison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johad
https://globalearthrepairfoundation.org/chikukwa-project/
https://permacultureprinciples.com/post/the-chikukwa-project/
https://gravis.org.in/water-security/
https://www.paanifoundation.in/
https://regenerativeresources.co/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_marsh
Peru: Sustainable farming in the rainforest | Global Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnIwzxZWLY
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
Community pleads with government to move their town after floods | 7.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODkzEBcXQxU
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floodplain
https://www.gurindjicorp.com.au/
Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s3xCNngm0w
https://www.youtube.com/@PBSNewsHour
rain salt level vs sea water
Rainwater typically has a TDS of 20 mg/L or less. Fresh water from lakes, rivers, and groundwater is more variable, with TDS ranging from 20 mg/L to approximately 1,000 mg/L. Brackish water is, by definition, water with TDS exceeding 1,000 mg/L and ranging as high as that of seawater, at approximately 35,000 mg/L.
https://watereuse.org/salinity-management/ls/ls_3d.html
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-isnt-rain-salty
bacteria level in sea water vs fresh water
Within our determined samples, the freshwater environment showed the highest bacterial richness and diversity, while the marine sediment was the lowest among the three, even though marine sediment is known to have high bacterial diversity.
Comparison of the Levels of Bacterial Diversity in Freshwater, Intertidal Wetland, and Marine Sediments by Using Millions of Illumina Tags
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497375/
salt as natural antibacterial
Salt kills some types of bacteria, effectively by sucking water out of them. In a process known as osmosis, water passes out of a bacterium so as to balance salt concentrations on each side of its cell membrane.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/why-does-salt-have-antibacterial-properties
Can salt cure bacterial infection?
Does high-salt diet combat infections? | Science | AAAS
A high-salt diet may have been a useful way to fight infections in our ancestors, before antibiotics existed or we lived long enough to develop cardiovascular diseases, but today, the detrimental effects of a high-salt diet outweigh any potential immunological benefits, according to Jantsch.
https://www.science.org/content/article/does-high-salt-diet-combat-infections
- refill acquifers/ground water if possible? Thermal, reverse osmosis/membrane based, solar thermal, etc... Lots of important trace elements minerals potentially available in sea water. Can you harvest/condense water from clouds/fog? Harvesting rain only makes sense in areas where there is plentiful rain. Frustrating because you can't just demudify the air to extract water due to high pollution waters? Deserts make up 1/3 of land area on Earth? Huge potential to recovery land for various purposes if humans can figure out/master large scale terraforming? Fascinating because if you harvest everything that's available on Earth who knows what the capacity for life support is available on this planet? I thought that a lot of super dry areas had no humidity at all but that's clearly not the case?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity
Why Aren't Desalination Plants EVERYWHERE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LNgmVvm-gY
Limitless Fresh Water Lies Right OVER The Ocean - Without Desalination!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt5xAcmfaYo
https://www.youtube.com/@TwoBitDaVinci
https://www.neom.com/en-us
The World's Biggest Desalination Plants Should Not Exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd9q30yjEqc
https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry
How Pirates Turned Seawater Into Drinking Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jzJm8By52M
https://www.youtube.com/@HistomindsArchive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier
Off-Grid Water With Air and Sunlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUQ1pneow8
Real-World Source Hydropanel Review after 2 Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgVWqcBepk8
https://www.youtube.com/@BenSullinsOfficial
https://www.source.co/how-hydropanels-work/
https://arena.gov.au/blog/how-do-hydropanels-work/
humidity levels by country
https://housefresh.com/the-most-humid-cities-in-the-world/
https://vividmaps.com/most-humid-cities/
https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Most-Humid-Cities-World-Map.jpg
How Spain is Making Abundant Water in the Desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ6mNchdMG0
https://www.youtube.com/@LeafofLifeWorld
can you move a cloud
https://www.quora.com/Can-we-move-clouds-artificially
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
can a plane harvest water from clouds
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/54509/could-water-be-extracted-harvested-from-clouds-consequences
https://www.fairplanet.org/story/air-vapour-tech-a-lifeline-for-water-scarce-nations/
https://www.quora.com/Can-a-firefighting-plane-exist-that-goes-to-the-clouds-using-a-giant-net-and-harvests-water
https://phys.org/news/2013-08-fog-harvesting-fresh-thin-air.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/18/africa/fog-catchers-morocco/index.html
harvesting water from from floods
http://www.cuvewaters.net/Floodwater-Harvesting.78.0.html
https://www.nature.org.au/floodplain_harvesting
https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/v/iwrm/Implementation/technical_measures/Water-harvesting-techniques/floodwater_harvesting/index.html
can you harvest water from a cactus
https://www.explore.com/how-survive-finding-water-desert/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Survival/comments/od6psy/is_cactus_water_safe_to_drink_through_a_lifestraw/
Water harvesting in a changing climate in Zimbabwe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBiR6OtSwo
https://www.youtube.com/@Pelumzim
Meet the Rainwater Harvesting Champions of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLTuJZ2vL8
https://www.youtube.com/@RAINfoundation
- for a while now I've wondered how can rivers have such high quality water but humans require enormous machinery and filtration facilities to get pure water? Then I realised that it's just more efficient generally and there are lots of organisms and plants that act as living filters in rivers? If made by an external entity really spectacular work. Great knowledge of science and technology, likely minimum several million years ahead in technology compared to Earth?
water filters wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_filter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_purification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_water_filters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_water_supply_and_sanitation
Portable water purification devices are self-contained, easily transported units used to purify water from untreated sources (such as rivers, lakes, and wells) for drinking purposes. Their main function is to eliminate pathogens, and often also of suspended solids and some unpalatable or toxic compounds.
These units provide an autonomous supply of drinking water to people without access to clean water supply services, including inhabitants of developing countries and disaster areas, military personnel, campers, hikers, and workers in wilderness, and survivalists. They are also called point-of-use water treatment systems and field water disinfection techniques.
Techniques include heat (including boiling), filtration, activated charcoal adsorption, chemical disinfection (e.g. chlorination, iodine, ozonation, etc.), ultraviolet purification (including sodis), distillation (including solar distillation), and flocculation. Often these are used in combination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_water_purification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potable_water
plant life correlation river water quality
Does vegetation improve water quality?
When healthy, their soils and vegetation can capture, process and store nutrients and/or contaminants, and if the natural rhythms and flows of the wetland are undisturbed, the release of potential stressors such as sediments, nutrients, acids and/or metals from the soil can be prevented.
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/factsheet-wetlands-water-quality.pdf
What plants are good for water quality?
Deep water plants, such as Water lilies and Rushes, are an important component of any well balanced dam or wetland design. They assist in stabilising the pond water temperature, reduce evaporation, help to reduce algal blooms and maintain healthier pond water, particularly during drought conditions.
https://www.bigditch.com.au/a-complete-guide-to-edible-water-plants/
Do plants purify water?
Plants that Clean Water | Kellogg Garden Organics™
Remember, plants do much more than filtrate our air supply, plants also play a huge role in keeping water clean by absorbing carbon dioxide and expelling oxygen. Whether it is xylem, iris's or lilies, water can be and is filtered by plant life!
https://kellogggarden.com/blog/gardening/plants-that-clean-water/
Free Water, Zero Bills: The Ancient System That Sent an Oregon Man to Jail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyrDow0uXNU
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm
Schmutzdecke[1] (German, "dirt cover" or dirty skin, sometimes wrongly spelled schmutzedecke) is a hypogeal biological layer formed on the surface of a slow sand filter and a form of periphyton.[2] The schmutzdecke is the layer that provides the effective purification in potable water treatment, the underlying sand providing the support medium for this biological treatment layer.
The composition of any particular schmutzdecke varies, but will typically consist of a gelatinous biofilm matrix of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, rotifera and a range of aquatic insect larvae. As a schmutzdecke ages, more algae tend to develop, and larger aquatic organisms may be present including some bryozoa, snails and annelid worms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmutzdecke
Your Water Filter Will Clog — The Medieval Sand Filtration System That Purifies Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU81mZRd8dc
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
How to Recycle Waste Water Using Plants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-sRcVkZ9yg
https://www.youtube.com/@amillison
The Ancient Ceramic Filter That Beats Every Modern Purifier - And Costs Almost Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEWMXKql_tc
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
Infinite Water for $12? The 'Forgotten' Engineering Secret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu0eYP4BaYo
https://www.youtube.com/@Benogarden
The Desert Dew Harvester How Ancient Civilizations Collected Pure Drinking Water From Thin Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLL54cppuCc
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/26/ancient-stepwells-brought-back-india-run-out-water-day-zero
Omar Yaghi, 2025 Nobel Prize winner, has developed a machine that produces up to 1,000 liters of clean drinking water per day from air. Check the comments for more details.
#OmarYaghi #NobelPrize #Atoco
https://www.facebook.com/TechnologyInnovation1
https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2026/02/nobel-chemist-turns-air-into-water.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
- charcoal filters make water taste better?
When the grid goes down it's only going to be a couple of days before the store shelves are empty, and that includes all the water, which goes before the toilet paper! In many urban locations it also means that the water stops flowing in your house because the city pumps aren't running either. No electricity also means that lot's of people won't be able to boil their water to make it safe. This filter is easy to make and very inexpensive and allows you to gather water from otherwise questionable sources and make it safe for you and your family.
2 pack of Huining filters with charcoal to remove taste: https://amzn.to/3wQRzjL
Plastic Water Cooler Faucet from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3vy8KkT
Sawyer Products SP160 One Gallon Gravity Water Filtration System w/Dual-Threaded Mini Filter: https://amzn.to/3eUy6U2
Super Sparrow One Quart Stainless Steel Insulated Water Bottle: https://amzn.to/3tscSRM
Super Sparrow Sports Water Bottle: https://amzn.to/38O6ufE
Water Filter You Can Make Yourself - Safe Drinking Water!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paiqCNaKg8c
https://www.youtube.com/@gonagain
- making charcoal pretty easy. Just need to cut some wood to maneagable size (so that it cooks evenly and makes it easier to fit into bucket), stick it in a metal bucket, burn/cook the bucket, etc...
The Easiest Way to Make Backyard Charcoal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVtXZKLKQZI
https://www.youtube.com/@wantedwastaken
- really primitive filters can be made using charcoal, sand, gravel, etc... Exposure to UV from sun for ~6hrs in clear container is enough to sanitize water?
How Effective are CHARCOAL & Sand Water Filters? Let's find out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOKlW3M7vFY
- gravevine and cyrpus tree used to filter water? Remarkebly simple filter. Exposure to UV from sun for ~6hrs in clear container is enough to sanitize water?
Xylem tissue/cells helps move nutrients and fluids in a plant/tree. Xylem tissue/cells filters bacteria.
Doesn't filter for virus though.
Exposure ~6hrs will
Newly Discovered PRIMITIVE WATER FILTER! 100% Effective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSBwJNDDUfc
https://www.youtube.com/@clayhayeshunter
will xylem filter salt
The study
"Plant-based bioremediation has been proposed as a strategy to mitigate the growing risks associated with freshwater salinization," the study says. "But large-scale experimental field tests of how harvesting plants can reduce deicing salts and heavy metals common in roadside environments are lacking." The authors identified ten wetlands by collecting and analyzing plant biomass for two growing seasons. They also evaluated soil chemistry and plant tissue chemistry.
Ultimately, confirmed the study, "Harvesting both Typha and Phragmites, ubiquitous plants that co-occur in wetlands around the globe, has the potential to remove both salts (Na, Cl, Ca, Mg) and heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn)."
Typha plants have proven most effective in absorbing salts. Swamp straws, in contrast, tend to accumulate metals better, thus coming to contain higher levels of zinc and copper. "Although repeated harvests reduced aboveground biomass and associated salt and metal stocks relative to unmanipulated controls, rotational harvest of common macrophytes growing in road-adjacent wetlands could maximize the reduction of roadside pollutants through harvesting," the study further explains.
https://resoilfoundation.org/en/environment/invasive-plant-salt-pollution/
halophiles life cycle
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Life-cycle-of-the-Halophile-Artemia-This-image-depicts-different-stages-of-growth-and_fig2_344783603
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/halophile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halophile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_marsh
- it's sometimes frustrating because a lot of technology from the developed world comes up with costs heaps of time and resources to get going but there are lots of solutions that are simple and cost close to nothing but aren't well known
THIS CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING! Purification of the world's most toxic river
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZuXFmNxMxI
https://www.youtube.com/@innovativetechs3044
https://www.pureearth.org/pe_press/blacksmith-institute-announces-name-change/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Earth
https://greencross.ch/en/
Unlimited Fresh Water: Can MIT's Breakthrough Save Us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XzmNpacpvk
https://www.youtube.com/@ZirothTech
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/10/vacuum-filter-troublesplanned.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation
https://news.mit.edu/2023/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-0927
- 2 main filters which removes containments from water, other modifies water. Activated charcoal/carbin vs ion-exchange/softening vs alkaline/electroylsis filters. Filtered water often contains more bacteria then tap water as filters aren't replaced often
Do Water Filters Really Purify Your Water? | Talking Point | Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LObbHbx_2fY
https://www.youtube.com/@CNAInsider
Documentary: Running dry – A nation on the brink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKKp3nHvBdE
https://www.youtube.com/@AfriforumCoZa1
- barrels, valves, sand of various grades, charcoal, gravel/rocks, pipes, floats, etc... connected in ingenious way to build passive water filter. System needs to be cleaned/rinsed out with water 3 times prior to use. Charcoal needs to be replaced every 2-3yrs for it to maintain itself
Make your own water filter and never buy drinking water again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kazEAzGWuIc
https://www.youtube.com/@JonJandaiLifeisEasy
https://www.aqsolutions.org/
https://www.facebook.com/AqueousSolutions/
- 1/3 people in world don't have access to safe water source. One of the leading causes of death worldwide. Sand and bacteria can be used to filter water
How to build a biosand filter to get safe drinking water ? - DIY Tutorial 💧
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0OsnJ0Uz5Q
How to get safe drinking water for 20$ ? - Ceramic water filter - Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NOZ8zREqkE
How to dehydrate fruits and vegetables ? - Solar Dryer - DIY Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfT5rnsaAAs
https://www.youtube.com/@low-techlab2411
Schmutzdecke[1] (German, "dirt cover" or dirty skin, sometimes wrongly spelled schmutzedecke) is a hypogeal biological layer formed on the surface of a slow sand filter and a form of periphyton.[2] The schmutzdecke is the layer that provides the effective purification in potable water treatment, the underlying sand providing the support medium for this biological treatment layer.
The composition of any particular schmutzdecke varies, but will typically consist of a gelatinous biofilm matrix of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, rotifera and a range of aquatic insect larvae. As a schmutzdecke ages, more algae tend to develop, and larger aquatic organisms may be present including some bryozoa, snails and annelid worms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmutzdecke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm
Your Water Filter Will Clog — The Medieval Sand Filtration System That Purifies Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU81mZRd8dc
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
- some massive work on deslination out there? The key issues are cost, power use, what to do with leftover brackish water, integration with the environment, etc... Some countries depend almost exclusively on desalination plants to survive. Desalination plants are generally very expensive to run
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination
which countries rely on desalination for water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination_by_country
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-rely-on-desalination.html
How Romans Desalinated Seawater?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C1sZX4Hbd_I
https://www.youtube.com/@ancient-techie/shorts
How to Desalinate Water on a Desert Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUET3PnPZng
https://www.youtube.com/@discovery
Unlimited Fresh Water: Can Glass Domes Save Us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVW2-UA0SB4
https://www.youtube.com/@ZirothTech
How to Turn Sea Water Into Fresh Water Without Pollution | Earth Explained!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdFIHecZDfc
https://www.youtube.com/@terramater
Can a Solar Still Generate Enough Fresh Water for Survival? | MythBusters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuj_NnymqMg
https://www.youtube.com/@sciencechannel
Solar still - Sea made drinkable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXMI7G_CpWA
https://www.youtube.com/@IgorStropnik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
- if you harvest from all tall buildings and roofs how much water do you get? Even if it's not pure enough to drink you can use it for other purposes like flushing the toilet or use it for irrigation and/or cleaning purposes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_net
do 500m high buildings collect much frost
The Shanghai Tower is so tall that its top floors actually freeze during winter.
This short explains why ice forms near the crown, how the wind affects it, and the engineering needed to manage the freezing temperatures at the top.
#ShanghaiTower #Engineering #Megastructures #SkyscraperFacts
A Skyscraper So Tall… It Freezes 🥶
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_WfYmSFPn7Y
https://www.youtube.com/@pasttworld/shorts
does it snow more at higher altitude
The climatic snow line is the boundary between a snow-covered and snow-free surface. The actual snow line may adjust seasonally, and be either significantly higher in elevation, or lower. The permanent snow line is the level above which snow will lie all year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_line
https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/snow/science-snow
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/cold-and-snow-8349/
https://opensnow.com/news/post/snow-levels-and-freezing-levels-explained
does it rain more at high altitude
https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/8716/how-does-elevation-affect-the-amount-of-rainfall-received
Relationships between Precipitation and Elevation in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau during the Active Phase of the Indian Monsoon
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/18/2700
is it more humid at higher altitude
At higher elevations, like in the mountains, the air is rarified – meaning it's thinner and drier – because of lower atmospheric pressure and adiabatic cooling. These factors cause the air to hold less moisture, resulting in drier conditions compared to lower elevations.
Using our sea level vs. Denver comparison, we showed that even when the temperature and relative humidity are the same, the air at higher altitudes contains less moisture due to the reduced atmospheric pressure. So, the next time you're in the mountains and your lungs feel like they're on a one-way trip to mummification, just remember these big words and my nerd tech tip about it.
https://www.hvacrschool.com/why-is-the-air-dry-at-altitude/
https://www.cordulus.com/glossary/air-humidity
what altitude contains most humidity
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/troposphere
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity
what is the humidity level by atmospheric height
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity
https://www.quora.com/How-does-atmospheric-humidity-vary-with-altitude
https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/upper-air-charts/constant-pressure-charts-700-mb
- if you break down water usage in a lot of buildings you'll realise a lot of water is used for silly stuff. Even if you just deal with toilet, washing machine, and irrigation via harvested water we cut down home water usage by ~50-75% now? Bulding a passive switching system would be trivial? So many opportunities for efficiency gains in toilet and shower systems in particular using already mature technologies?
FREE Water From Your Own Roof — THEY Spent Millions Making Sure You'd NEVER Try This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrQ1RJ9JycE
https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivalCamping7/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenCamping/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_Cistern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecca_of_Venice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_switching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Helix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_helix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson
what uses most water in home
https://viventeliving.com.au/what-uses-the-most-water-in-your-home/
https://www.gwmwater.org.au/conserving-water/saving-water/how-much-water-you-use
https://www.tankshop.com.au/articles/how-to-calculate-water-usage-in-your-home/
https://www.powersensor.com.au/case-studies-powersensor/high-water-usage-appliances-in-australian-homes-where-your-water-goes
hong kong sea water toilet
https://www.wsd.gov.hk/en/core-businesses/water-resources/seawater-for-flushing/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Hong_Kong
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/bx70dp/til_that_80_of_toilets_in_hong_kong_are_flushed/
aircraft carrier vacuum toilet
https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/international/news/us-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-faces-toilet-issues-wait-in-line-for-45-minutes-design-causes-toilet-jam-137287171.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2026/01/17/the-toilets-on-the-us-navys-newest-supercarrier-are-still-clogging/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford
boeing jet vacuum toilet
https://www.airwaysmag.com/new-post/untold-story-airplane-lavatories
https://www.satelliteindustries.com/blog/vacuum-toilet-system-in-aircraft/
Water desalination plants can end Iran war - explained | MEE Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJKE5k6A18
https://www.youtube.com/@MiddleEastEye
tesla shower atomiser
https://www.phoenixtapware.com.au/showers/
LuxeXP™ Shower Technology
https://www.phoenixtapware.com.au/journal/65097/
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Destiny_shower
showers in space
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-shower-space
https://sedsruhuna.org/articles/did-you-know-that-astronauts-cant-take-showers-in-space%F0%9F%A4%94/
This Roof Collects Drinking Water AND Generates Power. Why Did They Make It Illegal to Install?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRzcddYLKos
FREE Water From Your Own Roof — THEY Spent Millions Making Sure You'd NEVER Try This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrQ1RJ9JycE
https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivalCamping7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification_of_water
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-iran-war-s-most-precious-commodity-isn-t-oil-20260305-p5o7m7.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater
which countries have surplus rainfall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_precipitation
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/precipitation
- the interesting thing about space exploration is their usage of water recycling. If you have a high recycling rate you have a low need for desalination and collection of new water and so on. Some countries on Earth do this but it often requires high capital costs and infrastructure which most countries don't have or are willing to engage in
space recycled water
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/nasa-achieves-water-recovery-milestone-on-international-space-station/
Did you know that up to 80% of the water on the International Space Station is recycled? Astronauts living and working 400 km above our planet might prefer not to think about it, but the water they drink is recycled from their colleague's sweat and exhaled breath – collected as condensation on the Space Station's walls.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/International_Space_Station/Water_in_space
In 1965, Singapore was forced into independence with virtually no fresh water of its own. Half its supply came through a single pipeline from Malaysia — controlled by a government that openly called it "the ultimate leverage."
What followed was one of the most ambitious engineering and political projects in modern history. Over fifty years, Singapore built four completely independent water sources from scratch: a national rainwater catchment system covering two-thirds of the island, a desalination network drawing from the surrounding sea, and NEWater — treated wastewater so pure that Singapore's semiconductor factories chose it voluntarily over conventional supply.
But the engineering was the easy part. Convincing six million people to drink treated sewage was not.
This video tells the full story — from Lee Kuan Yew's founding anxiety to the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System running 55 meters underground, from California's catastrophic failure to Singapore's calculated strategy of radical transparency. And the moment a Prime Minister stood before sixty thousand people, raised a bottle of treated wastewater, and simply drank it.
🔍 In this video:
— How Malaysia's water threat shaped fifty years of Singaporean policy
— The 1977 Clean Rivers campaign — environmental cover for a water security strategy
— The 1974 membrane filtration pilot that was shelved but never forgotten
— Why the 1997 Asian financial crisis accelerated Singapore's water independence timeline
— The three-stage NEWater treatment process: microfiltration, reverse osmosis, UV disinfection
— Why Singapore's semiconductor factories chose NEWater voluntarily — and what that revealed
— The California "toilet to tap" collapse of 1994 and what Singapore learned from it
— The psychology of public acceptance: why Singapore introduced NEWater before asking for permission
— The Deep Tunnel Sewerage System: a second city built entirely underground
— Marina Barrage: a freshwater reservoir built in the heart of a financial district
— The 2011 water agreement expiry — and why Singapore let it go without a backward glance
— What Singapore's model means for a water-scarce century
Singapore's Genius Solution to Running Out of Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EquoerDP-0
https://www.youtube.com/@SolarPaths
- if you build artificial rivers (maybe even build artifical mountains as well) and attempt to harvest water from higher altitudes how much water can you extract? Use biofilm to clean things (automating this isn't that difficult. Lots of mining robots are completely capable of this type of work)? This would actually be a useful way to learn about building rivers from scratch?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth
Free Water, Zero Bills: The Ancient System That Sent an Oregon Man to Jail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyrDow0uXNU
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
Schmutzdecke[1] (German, "dirt cover" or dirty skin, sometimes wrongly spelled schmutzedecke) is a hypogeal biological layer formed on the surface of a slow sand filter and a form of periphyton.[2] The schmutzdecke is the layer that provides the effective purification in potable water treatment, the underlying sand providing the support medium for this biological treatment layer.
The composition of any particular schmutzdecke varies, but will typically consist of a gelatinous biofilm matrix of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, rotifera and a range of aquatic insect larvae. As a schmutzdecke ages, more algae tend to develop, and larger aquatic organisms may be present including some bryozoa, snails and annelid worms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmutzdecke
Your Water Filter Will Clog — The Medieval Sand Filtration System That Purifies Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU81mZRd8dc
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
How to Recycle Waste Water Using Plants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-sRcVkZ9yg
https://www.youtube.com/@amillison
The Ancient Ceramic Filter That Beats Every Modern Purifier - And Costs Almost Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEWMXKql_tc
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
Infinite Water for $12? The 'Forgotten' Engineering Secret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu0eYP4BaYo
https://www.youtube.com/@Benogarden
The Desert Dew Harvester How Ancient Civilizations Collected Pure Drinking Water From Thin Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLL54cppuCc
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/26/ancient-stepwells-brought-back-india-run-out-water-day-zero
Omar Yaghi, 2025 Nobel Prize winner, has developed a machine that produces up to 1,000 liters of clean drinking water per day from air. Check the comments for more details.
#OmarYaghi #NobelPrize #Atoco
https://www.facebook.com/TechnologyInnovation1
https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2026/02/nobel-chemist-turns-air-into-water.html
A qanāt (Persian: قَنَات) or kārīz (کَارِیز) is a water supply system that was developed in ancient Iran for the purpose of transporting usable water to the surface from an aquifer or a well through an underground aqueduct. Originating approximately 3,000 years ago,[1] its function is essentially the same across the Middle East and North Africa, but it is known by a variety of regional names beyond today's Iran, including: kārēz in Afghanistan and Pakistan; foggāra in Algeria; khettāra [fr] in the Atlas Mountains; the daoudi-type falaj in Oman and the United Arab Emirates; and ʿuyūn in Saudi Arabia.[1] In addition to those in Iran, the largest extant and functional qanats are located in Afghanistan, Xinjiang in China (the Turpan water system), Oman, and Pakistan.[1]
Proving crucial to water supply in areas with hot and dry climates, a qanat enables water to be transported over long distances by largely eliminating the risk of much of it evaporating on the journey. The system also has the advantage of being fairly resistant to natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, as well as to man-made disasters, such as wartime destruction and water supply terrorism. Furthermore, it is almost insensitive to varying levels of precipitation, delivering a flow with only gradual variations from wet to dry years.
The typical design of a qanat is a gently sloping tunnel accessed by a series of well-like vertical shafts visible at ground level. This taps into groundwater and delivers it to the surface at a lower level some distance away, via gravity, therefore eliminating the need for pumping. The vertical shafts along the underground channel are for maintenance purposes, and water is typically used only once it emerges from the daylight point.
To date, the qanat system still ensures a reliable supply of water for consumption and irrigation across human settlements in hot, arid, and semi-arid climates, but its value to a population is directly related to the quality, volume, and regularity of the groundwater in the inhabited region. Since their adoption outside of the Iranian mainland in antiquity, qanats have come to be heavily relied upon by much of the Middle Eastern and North African populations for sustenance. Likewise, many of the continuously inhabited settlements in these regions are established in areas where conditions have historically been favourable for creating and sustaining a qanat system.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
Ethiopia Has BUILT HUNDREDS OF DAMS USING EARTHEN WALLS – A Method That Has ASTONISHED THE WORLD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprQSfEzSlA
https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleDiscovery24
- can you convert decommisioned mining rigs or large naval ships (and/or designs) into solar stills for fresh water creation? Just transfer the fresh water back via ship periodically? Another alternative is just automated ships/vessels/drones where fresh water is dropped into them and sent back. A low tech solution would be entirely mechnical but have vessels with fresh water pulled back to shore occasionally? If the winds in your area are predicable or you can master/control cloud/fog movement one day can you even send this water back to land for colleciton via fog nets?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics
DIY Solar Water Distiller! - Simple Solar Water Distilling - Easy DIY (for survival/SHTF)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF9yYGwPcNw
https://www.youtube.com/@desertsun02
How To Turn Salt Water Into Fresh Water (Simple Improvised Distillation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_-wFiFdwAE
https://www.youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight
global map mountain ranges close to sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountain_ranges
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac17-35-sci-ess-glblmtnranges/global-patterns-of-mountain-ranges/
world map height above sea level
https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-4d9jnh/The-World/?zoom=2
https://www.floodmap.net/elevation/worldelevationmap/
fish fecal matter
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-calculated-all-the-fish-poo-in-the-ocean-for-climate-research
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/fishes-contribute-roughly-165-billion-tons-carbon-feces-and-other-matter-annually
filtering fecal matter from sea water
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10116647/Cow-manure-makes-DRINKABLE-water-scientists-turn-animal-feces-filter.html
is fish poop heavier than salt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_aquaponics
aircraft carrier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_aircraft_carrier
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/what-world-war-ii-plan-build-aircraft-carriers-out-ice-186426
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/world-war-ii-navy-turned-battlecruiser-aircraft-carrier-168071
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iran-seizes-oil-tanker-attacks-dummy-aircraft-carrier-attempt-inspire-ncna1235773
Desalination: Elon Musk says 'Its The Solution to the Global Water Crisis.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAc8EAAFa0
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeepDiveCa
- many humans find many animals such as beavers, worms, moles, chimps, and orangutans pests because humans haven't found a use for them to fit in their way of life? Many of these animals naturally help manage the environment if you understand or can control their behaviour (fertility rate in particular). Absolute best friend in terraforming and you don't have to build drones since these guys are ready made
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/01/empathic-personalities-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/rat-backgroundresearch-professional-rat.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
70 Years Without Wolves: Yellowstone's Ecological Collapse | Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZL1SxGDz9U
https://www.youtube.com/@get.nature
- harvesting water can be done heaps of different ways obviously. How much can you harvest and can you use it to refill the world's ground water supplies? Can you then ring out organic material and seeds/plants at exit points around water sources and autotically re-terraform the whole Earth?
How Solar Powered Machines are Making Free Water in the Sahara Desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrtEmgqIhCI
https://www.youtube.com/@LeafofLifeWorld
https://sunglacier.nl/
400 Feet Borewell Drilling Within 7 Hours with latest technology | Borewell drilling Feast Your Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb9QA1LIjY4
https://www.youtube.com/@CraftyProWorkers
https://www.youtube.com/@CraftyProWorkers/videos
A centuries-old method of drilling water without a power tool that is still in use today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VxE3l4HOs
https://www.youtube.com/@mistermaster593
Homemade water well drill rig machine , how to make a water well at home DIY - 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2wUmWlJjvk
https://www.youtube.com/@SuperFastDriver
- humans are at a point where they can build a lot of interesting meta-materials? Can they do any better then natural stones to harvest water from air?
Are you tired of dry soil and high utility bills? In this video, I will show you how to harvest water from air using a forgotten twenty-dollar engineering trick. You do not need expensive pumps or complex plumbing to keep your plants alive during a severe drought. By understanding simple thermal mass and using common river rocks, you can build a permanent setup to harvest water from air every single night. This ancient technique forces natural condensation directly into your plant roots, saving you time and money. Watch the full tutorial to learn the exact blueprint so you can harvest water from air and perfectly drought-proof your entire backyard garden today.
Infinite Water for $20 — The Forgotten Engineering Trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZkLYVVQveA
https://www.youtube.com/@ClaraGarden0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueduct_(water_supply)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataeans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial
- massive temperature gradients often create condensation and humidity. Are are there low power options to squeeze the water from the air? Do you just use harvested energy to drive dehumdifiers (see elsewhere in this post)?
These Rocks Create Water From Thin Air. No Irrigation For 2,000 Years. Why Does No One Teach This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49q7VdX0Q54
https://www.youtube.com/@ClaraGarden0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumidifier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidifier
does a sealed steel can of nitrogen stay cool forever
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/459360/what-happens-to-a-liquid-nitrogen-canister-under-pressure-if-left-at-room-temper
https://ehs.research.uiowa.edu/liquid-nitrogen-handling
difference humidity between day and night
https://bubblyprofessor.com/2015/08/21/the-diurnal-difference/
https://www.alorair.com/blog/why-is-it-more-humid-at-night/
how much more humid is it between day and night
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point
- should you/can you extract from water high humidity areas to reduces cyclone/tornado damage?
does wind or rain damage cause more damage during tornado
Wind Speed and Intensity
The sheer force of tornado winds is the primary cause of damage. Wind speeds in strong tornadoes can exceed 200 mph (322 km/h), capable of tearing roofs from buildings, flattening walls, and propelling debris like missiles.
This intense wind pressure can compromise a home's structure in seconds, particularly if there are vulnerabilities in the roof or windows.
https://www.ecoflow.com/us/blog/how-tornadoes-cause-damage
https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/tornadoes/
- it'd be interesting to see what a drone with a towed water net behind it would do because in theory it should be more successful then cloud seeding since you have greater control over affairs rather then waiting to see whether or not cloud seeding works?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_iodide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-altitude_long-endurance_UAV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_reconnaissance_aerial_vehicle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship
water nets
How Germans Produce Millions Liters of Water In Sahara Desert Using Unbelievable Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2OtkH7-KVw
https://www.youtube.com/@Mandarintechmido
- there are vehicles out there that can basically run for very long periods of time without refuelling. I've been wondering whether not we can use this to our advantage to collect/harvest water in the atmosphere and then dump it where it's needed based on meterological data? For a hot air baloon/air ship it can be completely automated. If it runs out of fuel you can use harvested water and then electrolysis to split into into oxygen and hydrogen? Then use this to drive the engines and keep the thing aloft? Hydrogen fuel based engines are realtively young technology but ICE engines definitely aren't and you don't need high performance engines for this. It only needs to come down for periodic maintenance if built properly? If you think about it, a hot air baloon/airship has a very similar effect as Anti-Gravity? Note, most humidity exists in the lower parts of the atmosphere so it doesn't need to go too high
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
I Built a Drone That NEVER Needs Charging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx5DA8qEfHY
https://www.youtube.com/@LukeMaximoBell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon
INFINITE RANGE ELECTRIC CAR - DIY Build
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0it7F9VBWg
https://www.youtube.com/@DrewBuildsStuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=homemade+hydrolosis+hydrogen+water
DIY Hydrogen/Oxygen Generators From Grocery Store Items (HHO Fuel Cells & Split Cell Electrolysis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85OX6yEwE0
https://www.youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight
DIY Oxy Hydrogen Generator That Actually WORKS - Step By Step Guide!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flDWi8RJUNs
https://www.youtube.com/@Mr_Singh_Simranjit
Water into Hydrogen - Simple Hydrogen Generator from Carbon Pin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbdv7h2YQqM
https://www.youtube.com/@skillmake
The Toyota Yaris Hydrogen WRC Rally Car Prototype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTIMCmk4bkg
https://www.youtube.com/@wrc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_FCHV
- it's very obvious we can build auto-terraforming systems and drones in the future? If you work backwards from the sea and further inland in hot countries like Africa and the Middles East it makes things a lot easier?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
High on a slope in the Canary Islands, a team of engineers spent months driving metal stakes into blackened, bone-dry ground and rigging panels of fine mesh between them. No pipelines. No wells. No storage tanks. Just nets. Large, silent, perfectly still nets strung across the mountainside, aimed straight at the clouds. This landscape had been degrading for generations. The underground water reserves were dropping, the loose soil drifting toward the African coast. And the solution someone approved was nets.
How Spain Revived A Prehistoric Forest Using THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1em_48GMOI
https://www.youtube.com/@EarthFreshChannel
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=max+well+smart+cone+of+silence
The Portable Cone of Silence - Get Smart - 1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3AXzztpnuc
British CONTROL's Umbrella of Silence - Get Smart - 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0k5DQ92kqk
The Crowded Cone of Silence - Get Smart - 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxmEtJ31Ldw
https://www.youtube.com/@ShatnerMethod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Smart
- can you just feed bacteria and then combine oxygen and hydrogen produced from it to produce water? This was actually theorised as to how some of water was produced on Earth many years ago?
are there any bacteria that produce hydrogen
The overlooked benefits of hydrogen-producing bacteria
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9979208/
Photo-Fermentative Bacteria Used for Hydrogen Production
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/3/1191
are there any anaerobic bacteria that produce hydrogen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentative_hydrogen_production
Hydrogen production by mixed culture of several facultative bacteria and anaerobic bacteria
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1002007112600902
are there any bacteria that produce oxygen
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-oxygen.html
TIL: 20% of Our Oxygen Comes from Bacteria
Did you know that 20% of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean? Tiny bacteria called prochlorococcus are hard at work turning carbon dioxide into the oxygen we breathe through photosynthesis. Join oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle to learn about this small but mighty organism.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/til-20-our-oxygen-comes-bacteria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochlorococcus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
Enter Cyanobacteria
According to the noted biochemist Leslie Orgel, who pioneered research on the origins of life, the earliest onset of life on our planet occurred around 3.8 billion years ago. Since oxygen was projected to be absent from the earth at that time, metabolism in living organisms would have been anaerobic, involving the use of minerals present in the ocean to generate energy. However, around 2.7 billion years ago, a peculiar group of microbes, known as cyanobacteria, evolved. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S and 23s rRNA, genome reconstructions and fossil evidence have been used to understand the evolutionary characteristics of these early living organisms. These microbes possessed the remarkable ability to perform photosynthesis, (i.e., they could generate energy from sunlight). Cyanobacteria possessed the machinery to utilize water as a fuel source by oxidizing it. More significantly, the by-product of photosynthesis happened to be oxygen.
How could tiny cyanobacteria be the harbingers of a change of such magnitude? Among all the biochemical inventions that life could conceive, the ability of cyanobacteria to utilize water as fuel for oxygen generation must rank as one of the most ingenious. Researchers hypothesize that the levels of oxygen released into the seawater by cyanobacteria gradually increased over time, and that over a span of 200-300 million years, oxygen was produced at a faster rate than it could react with other elements or get sequestered by minerals. The oxygen released by cyanobacteria steadily accumulated over vast swathes of the ocean and oxygenated the water. Gradually, the accumulated oxygen started escaping into the atmosphere, where it reacted with methane. As more oxygen escaped, methane was eventually displaced, and oxygen became a major component of the atmosphere. This event, known as the "Great Oxidation Event," occurred sometime between 2.4 – 2.1 billion years ago.
Changing Earth's Chemistry
The Great Oxidation Event was an epochal moment in the evolutionary timeline and had several grave consequences, not only on Earth's climate (indirectly), but also on the adaptation and evolution of living organisms. Researchers have hypothesized on the impact of the great oxidation event on the earth's climate by painstakingly estimating geochemical and isotopic signatures of molecules in the earth's early atmosphere, using mass-modeling and conducting studies involving redox-sensitive transition metal isotopes.
These studies indicate that the chemistry of the earth's atmosphere changed dramatically as oxygen levels rose and replaced methane (methane is still present today, but in very minute amounts). Further, it is hypothesized that accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere led to one of the earliest ice ages on earth. Methane is a greenhouse gas, since it traps heat from sunlight and warms the planet. As methane was displaced by oxygen, global temperatures cooled sufficiently to generate ice sheets that extended all the way from the poles to the tropics.
Oxygen was also responsible for formation of the ozone layer in the atmosphere. The UV radiation from the sun split oxygen molecules (O2) into 2 atoms of oxygen, which then reacted with another oxygen molecule to generate ozone (O3). Ozone acts as a natural sunscreen to prevent harmful UV radiation from reaching the earth.
The Great Oxidation Event and Emergence of Aerobic Metabolism
Since life was totally anaerobic 2.7 billion years ago when cyanobacteria evolved, it is believed that oxygen acted as a poison and wiped out much of anaerobic life, creating an extinction event. It has proved to be a difficult task for researchers to estimate the specific lineages that disappeared, due to lack of concrete fossil evidence and difficulty in estimating the species loss. However, conditions were ripe for the next big step in evolution: aerobic metabolism.
Life found a way to survive the poisonous oxygen environment by utilizing the rich potential of oxygen in respiration. Since oxygen has a high redox potential, it acted as an ideal terminal electron acceptor to generate energy after nutrient breakdown. Oxygen soon became indispensable for metabolic activities. Organisms also evolved strategies to detoxify the reactive oxidative species that resulted from aerobic metabolism. Though sequencing and phylogenetic analyses estimate the evolution of ROS detoxifying enzymes even before the advent of aerobic microbes, the Great Oxidation Event acted as the catalyst to shape the directed evolution of enzymes like superoxide dismutase and catalase. Organisms that could not adapt well enough to oxygen remained in anaerobic environments.
The release of oxygen by cyanobacteria was thus responsible for changes in the earth's atmospheric composition, the rise of aerobic metabolism and, ultimately, the evolution of multicellularity. Oxygen is the primary molecule that makes Earth what it is today, far more hospitable and beautiful than the early earth. It is certainly no exaggeration to say that we owe our existence in present form to cyanobacteria.
https://asm.org/articles/2022/february/the-great-oxidation-event-how-cyanobacteria-change

Endless Resources:

- one of my interests is advanced recycling of waste. This can involve anything you find. Break it down mechnically, chemically, via thermal means, etc... and then converting it into other stuff. To the uninitiated it looks pretty wierd. To those of yesteryear it may look like Alchemy but in the modern age it's called recycling and advanced manufacturing?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/01/winter-jacket-purchaserepairdesign.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/01/3d-printing-background-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/10/vacuum-filter-troublesplanned.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/recyclingunlockinghacking-devices-for.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_by_material
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_by_product
Jobs 2.0: From trash to treasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntw_zjs8KC8
https://www.youtube.com/@cgtn
which countries are being used as waste dumps
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-plastic-america-global-crisis
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/uk-still-sends-plastic-waste-low-income-countries/
https://earth.org/waste-colonialism-a-brief-history-of-dumping-rich-countries-trash-in-the-global-south/
1. Ghana
2. Philippines
3. Nigeria
4. Somalia
5. China
6. India
7. Vietnam
8. Pakistan
9. Bangladesh
10. Ivory Coast
11. Indonesia
12. Kenya
13. Guinea
14. Haiti
15. Mexico
16. Zimbabwe
17. Guinea-Bissau
18. Lebanon
19. South Africa
20. Sweden
https://www.eterra.com.ng/system/articles/top-20-countries-dumping-grounds-trash/
waste colonialism
https://earth.org/waste-colonialism-a-brief-history-of-dumping-rich-countries-trash-in-the-global-south/
https://www.greenpeace.org/mena/en/how-traditional-practices-and-modern-solutions-can-end-waste-colonialism/
what countries have huge waste dumps
https://www.eterra.com.ng/system/articles/top-20-countries-dumping-grounds-trash/
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-landfills-waste-sites-and-trash-dumps-in-the-world.html
1. Israel
2. Chile
3. United States
4. Greece
5. Canada
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090716/5-countries-produce-most-waste.asp
https://aclima.eus/noticia/global-waste-index-ranking-the-biggest-waste-polluters-worldwide/
https://www.developmentaid.org/news-stream/post/158158/world-waste-statistics-by-country

global major waste materials list

What are the most common items of waste found in

rivers and oceans?

Each item's share of total litter in aquatic environments, including rivers, shorelines and offshore waters.

Bags 14.1%

Plastic bottles 11.9%

Food containers / cutlery 9.4%

Wrappers 9.1%

Synthetic rope 7.9%

Fishing related 7.6%

Plastic lids 6.1%

Industrial packaging 3.4%

Glass bottles 3.4%

Cans (drinks) 3.2%

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/most-common-waste-rivers-oceans

https://sensoneo.com/global-waste-index/

https://www.statista.com/topics/4983/waste-generation-worldwide/#dossier-chapter4

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/state-of-the-planet/world-waste-facts

waste level by country

https://www.developmentaid.org/news-stream/post/158158/world-waste-statistics-by-country

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/food-waste-by-country

https://www.ifco.com/countries-with-the-least-and-most-food-waste/

global trash map

https://globalplasticwatch.org/map

http://www.atlas.d-waste.com/

https://internationalwasteplatform.org/global-waste-sites-map/

https://www.openoceans.org/Plastic-Trash

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

https://ourworldindata.org/lead-pollution

https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

https://ourworldindata.org/clean-water

WATCH: How an Enugu business makes millions from Trash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck2GcrENqr0

https://www.youtube.com/@firstnewsnation

garbologist

garbologist (plural garbologists) One who examines refuse using archaeological techniques. A garbologist forages through waste paper baskets in search of interesting documents. (Australia, humorous) A garbage collector.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/garbologist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbology

https://www.youtube.com/@TheAustralianGarbologist/videos

https://www.monash.edu/business/marketing/marketing-dictionary/g/garbology

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/garbologist_n

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/29/marc-fennell-nobody-wants-to-be-lectured-about-colonialism-but-everybody-loves-a-treasure-hunt

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/09/wikipedia-list-data-scan-pack-random.html

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/if-only-hiring-were-so-simple-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html

- vinegar is often used in food and as a cheap alternative to artificial to cleaners by many people
This probiotic rich homemade vinegar can be made from any fruit, berry, and more. It taste better, is better for you, and cost almost nothing to make! Use it in cooking, cleaning, gardens, skin & hair care, and more! Come learn how easy it is to make this house hold stable from stretch with us!
Make Homemade Vinegar from Any Fruit for Pennies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJVQuec2fTs
https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivalHT
- insulating materials can be created from waste and mycelium?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
This Fungus Grows Solid Bricks From Waste. No Cement Required. Why Do Engineers Refuse to Use It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MznRIIzolOA
https://www.youtube.com/@NaturesLostArchive
House That Regulates Its Own Temp. Why the Energy Industry Is Afraid of It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69aSYnCI-d8
https://www.youtube.com/@OffGridSecrets333
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovative_Design
https://ecovative.com/
https://shop.ecovative.com/blogs/blog/how-to-grow-a-mycelium-company
https://shop.ecovative.com/blogs/blog/ecovative-and-mycelium-materials-15-years-growing
- free soap
Stop Buying Soap The Viking Lye Method That Cleans Anything and Costs Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSIFeJWkqf8
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lye
- this is really useful and may help to create bricks, tiles, mountains, etc... on demand? Mountains crucial in terraforming to help dissapate power of high speed winds?
This Bacteria Turns Sand Into Solid Stone. No Heat Required. Why Do Building Codes Reject It?
There is a way to turn loose sand into solid stone.
No heat. No kilns. No cement. No chemical reactions requiring industrial equipment. It happens at room temperature. It happens in 72 hours. And the material it produces is the same mineral that built the pyramids, the Colosseum, and every great cathedral in Europe. The same mineral in seashells. The same mineral in your bones.
It has been happening in ordinary soil for hundreds of millions of years.
The thing doing it is a bacterium.
The question is why you have never heard of it.
The archive opens not in a construction site but in the dirt beneath your feet.
Sporosarcina pasteurii has been living in soil, in caves, in lake sediments, and on the ocean floor for hundreds of millions of years. Microbiologists first catalogued it in the early 1900s. At the time it seemed like nothing more than a strange soil bacterium. Scientists knew the bacterium produced extraordinary amounts of an enzyme called urease — an enzyme that breaks down urea into carbonate ions that bind with calcium to form calcium carbonate crystals. They knew this for decades. It was a curiosity. A footnote in microbiology textbooks. A bacterium that did something interesting in a petri dish.
This Bacteria Turns Sand Into Solid Stone. No Heat Required. Why Do Building Codes Reject It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLHAOr9lpM
https://www.youtube.com/@NaturesLostArchive
How Pee and Bacteria can turn Sand into Solid Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8UrxpJ-4w
https://www.youtube.com/@offgridfabio
Electricity Turns Sand Into Solid Stone. No Cement Required. Could Concrete Become Obsolete?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1P44htyC6I
https://www.youtube.com/@NaturesLostArchive
are there bacterial veins on earth
https://naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/mineral-veins-are-ancient-microbial-burial-grounds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_biosphere
https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/news/2021/deep-bedrock-mineral-veins-are-microbial-graveyards/
are their bacteira which convert soil to clay
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article-abstract/108/10/1940/628286/Microbially-induced-clay-weathering-Smectite-to?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://fermentpittsburgh.com/2021/01/20/homemade-clay-and-fermenting-it/
Electricity Turns Sand Into Solid Stone. No Cement Required. Could Concrete Become Obsolete?
There is a construction site somewhere in the world right now where the ground beneath the foundations is loose sand.Not bedrock. Not compacted soil. Sand.The kind that shifts. The kind that liquefies in an earthquake. The kind that has swallowed sea walls whole.For a hundred years, the answer to that problem was cement. Inject it into the ground, let it harden, stabilize the sand from within.It works. It also costs millions of dollars per mile, contaminates groundwater, and requires the same industrial system responsible for eight percent of the world's carbon emissions to produce.There is another answer.You run electricity through the sand.And the sand becomes stone.A process that could protect every eroding coastline on Earth right now — and eventually replace the most destructive building material ever invented.Not slowly. Not with heat. Not with cement.A mild electrical current — too weak to feel — passes through sand saturated with seawater.And almost instantaneously, minerals begin to grow between the grains.Crystal by crystal. Contact by contact.Loose sand that poured freely through your fingers becomes solid, load-bearing rock.The Great Barrier Reef does this.Oysters do this.The White Cliffs of Dover — one hundred and ten meters of solid chalk rising from the English Channel — were built this way, grain by grain, by marine organisms that had no factory, no kiln, and no plan.Just chemistry. And electricity.The question is why it took us this long to figure out how to do it on purpose.
Electricity Turns Sand Into Solid Stone. No Cement Required. Could Concrete Become Obsolete?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1P44htyC6I
https://www.youtube.com/@NaturesLostArchive
- when you look it's strange some of the way that people live throughout the world. Lots of homes made of recycled/junk materials. I'm wondering whether we can take it a step further and make it more comfortable?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/recyclingunlockinghacking-devices-for.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/01/life-in-philippines-duterte-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/02/life-in-afghanistan-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/03/life-in-brazil-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/02/life-in-iran-examining-prophetspre-cogs.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/03/life-in-yemen-blogger2book-bash-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/life-in-vietnam-2-data-recovery-work.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/life-in-vietnam-prophetspre-cogs-12-and.html
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/100-granny-flats-a-week-families-turn-to-instant-housing-solution/
Living with 19,400 Vehicular Homeless people in California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcwbF9WuqF0
https://www.youtube.com/@nomadbrad503
I built a camper for my BIKE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2N5QsgzZjc
https://www.youtube.com/@ChayDenne
DIY Ford Transit Connect - Micro Van Conversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuuzyYzpZDo
https://www.youtube.com/@TinyHomeTours
I pay £50 a month to live in a skip in London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05cEM-sU5qk
https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsJOE
They built a luxury Tiny Home inside of a 18-wheeler Semi Truck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqS29jf9KKo
https://www.youtube.com/@TinyHouseGiantJourney
I turned a bus into a luxury tiny home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnXMs8k5R4U
https://www.youtube.com/@ChayDenne
21 Year Old's Ingenious £5,000 Tiny Home!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I14QzRY8BI
https://www.youtube.com/@livingbig
Micro-House in Central London for £30k?? | George Clarke's Amazing Spaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jyy4_WpP-w
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Lifestyle
Why don't we just turn empty offices into housing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQOgOhheSi4
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
Building a wooden micro-camper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH2NAY9Up8c
https://www.youtube.com/@mikekrabal
Flatpack homes people can own and build themselves | A Current Affair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUM61GXf2uc
https://www.youtube.com/@ACurrentAffair9
https://i-build.com.au/
https://spacehaven.com.au/products/
https://www.hypercuby.com.au/products/
Recycling revolutionary Veena Sahajwalla turns old clothes into kitchen tiles | Australian Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkbQynfSyY
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
https://www.smart.unsw.edu.au/
https://www.smart.unsw.edu.au/technologies-products/microfactorie-technologies
https://www.smart.unsw.edu.au/about-us/our-people
https://education.riaus.org.au/atse-when-the-mattress-king-met-the-queen-of-waste/
https://www.cootatimes.com.au/news/coota-features-on-abc%E2%80%88program/
https://www.mattressrecycle.com.au/
https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/molycop-commercialises-its-next-version-of-green-steel-through-team-effort
http://www.molycop.com/information-hub/news/technology-revolution-using-old-car-tyres-to-make-steel,-ending-coal
We Build A Massive 3-Level Earthbag Dome | Start To Finish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYdrMm8_aY
https://www.youtube.com/@ourselfreliantlife
FabBRICK Puts An End To Fashion Waste | Textile Waste To Bricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u68gnvdOpzE
https://www.youtube.com/@love_earth_go_green
https://www.fab-brick.com/fabbrick-english
These Sustainable DESERT DOMES Will Blow Your Mind!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yUOb9HpEN4
https://www.youtube.com/@naturalbuildings
mars liquid carbon dioxide
Instead of liquid water, what is stored underground on Mars is liquid CO2 and when a collapse occurs, this boils almost instantly and explosively to CO2 vapour, blasting the rock and regolith to dust, except for the most resistant fragments such as igneous rocks.
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/guest/hoffman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2175414-terraforming-mars-might-be-impossible-due-to-a-lack-of-carbon-dioxide/
Aircrete - Everything you need to know before you start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNpgqOwlJM
https://www.youtube.com/@domegaia
Colombia's Lego Homes - earthrise (lead)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfWBhNhZuzY
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://conceptosplasticos.com/
Eco India: Can we construct using just plastic waste and dust?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmx6-Xc3VMU
https://www.youtube.com/@ScrollIn
How Bricks Made From Milk Cartons Can Help Typhoon Victims | World Wide Waste | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvBY0IfgeYo
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://www.tetrapak.com/en-anz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Pak
We Gjenge Maker's make Brick's from PLASTIC TRUSH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_urLGGIg0c
How to make building paving blocks from plastic waste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX3x0lbLACI
Gjenge ed ep 1:Why Gjenge Plastic Pavers are Stronger then Concrete Pavers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EITz9lH5ThQ
https://www.youtube.com/@gjenge_makers
The world's first 90% recycled brick: The K-Briq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giiTe6LzQDk
https://www.youtube.com/@be_stbuild
Roads Can Be Recycled Forever, Why Don't More Cities Do It? | World Wide Waste | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKunfiL_Kyc
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://www.gogreenasphalt.com/
Eco India: How can construction waste come handy when building sustainably?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFcLavK7on4
https://www.youtube.com/@ScrollIn
Amazing Lego-Style HEMP BLOCKS Make Building a House Quick, Easy & Sustainable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqLXXjvQXgI
https://www.youtube.com/@ExploringAlternatives
http://justbiofiber.ca/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(material)
- heaps of cheap materials have basically been banned from use in house construction in the US/West?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
This Plant Makes 'Concrete' That Lasts 600 Years. Why Is It Illegal In Building Codes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqdogyHqbu8
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo
This Home Survives 7.6 Earthquakes, Designed for NASA, Costs ONLY $5,000. Why Don't You Know Of It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcSG27Rtcik
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
This Home Survives Category 5 Hurricanes And Costs $0 To Maintain. Why Can't You Live In One?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7G5gXK9VQ
https://www.youtube.com/@wildline_YT
This video explores the surprising story behind one of the oldest and cheapest building materials on Earth. Thousands of years ago people built homes using simple adobe bricks made from clay sand and straw. Some of these houses are still standing today lasting longer than many modern buildings while costing only a few hundred dollars in materials. Even more incredible these thick earthen walls naturally regulate temperature keeping homes cool in summer and warm in winter without heating or air conditioning.
But if adobe works so well why is it difficult or even illegal to build this way in most places today. In this video you will discover the history of how building codes industry interests and financial systems slowly pushed natural construction methods out of the mainstream. The story reveals how a material that once housed entire civilizations became almost impossible to use in modern construction even though the science behind it is simple and proven.
You will also learn how thermal mass works and why thick earthen walls can store heat during the day and release it at night creating a natural temperature balance inside the home. Studies comparing adobe structures with conventional houses show that these buildings can maintain comfortable indoor temperatures with far less energy. In many climates they can even eliminate the need for mechanical cooling entirely.
The video also explores the people who tried to bring this ancient knowledge back. Architects engineers and builders around the world have demonstrated that earth construction can provide durable affordable housing using materials that already exist beneath our feet. Their work challenges the modern assumption that building a home must require massive loans expensive materials and complex technology.
Finally you will discover the remarkable story of a woman in Texas who found a legal loophole and used it to help hundreds of families build their own adobe homes. These homes cost a fraction of conventional houses require almost no energy to heat or cool and allow families to live without mortgages or energy bills. Her work proves that the knowledge has never disappeared and that people can still build strong comfortable homes using techniques that humanity has known for thousands of years.
This Home Costs $300 to Build and $0 to Heat FOREVER. Why Is It Banned?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fe3rP92hjY
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
Rammed Earth: The World's Healthiest Building Material?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xVQdL2ieI
https://www.youtube.com/@wellnessdaddy
The $5,000 House They Made Illegal. Why Are You Not Allowed to Build It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXddsQ_WDaQ
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
- lots of similar projects in Africa, South America, Asia, etc... anything dusty can be converted into a brick like material once bound together and cured?
Eco India: Can we construct using just plastic waste and dust?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmx6-Xc3VMU
https://www.youtube.com/@ScrollIn
Man sets to END homelessness by building HOMES with recycling Plastic waste.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcXP37XayY
https://www.youtube.com/@ODANANETWORK
Indonesian women turn waste plastic into construction bricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87miAqWoLEs
https://www.youtube.com/@SouthChinaMorningPost
https://rebricks.id/
https://www.youtube.com/@rebricks/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-density_fibreboard
rammed earth wall
https://www.yourhome.gov.au/materials/rammed-earth
stone buildings
Regreening Ethiopia's Highlands: A New Hope for Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nak-UUZnvPI
https://www.youtube.com/@TerrAfrica
- remarkable differences in levels of automation and how we deal with problems in the developing vs developed world. Lots of interesting projects for converting plastics to building materials, tubes, furniture, string, clothing, etc... Max two level buildings for recycled plastic bricks. More research required to go higher/larger then that. A lot of really well thought out stuff in the developing world
Man sets to END homelessness by building HOMES with recycling Plastic waste.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcXP37XayY
https://www.youtube.com/@ODANANETWORK
https://www.nelplastgh.com/
https://gh.linkedin.com/in/nelsonboateng
How A Ghanaian Man Is Building Affordable Homes With Waste Plastics!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPmZmUBFryY
https://www.youtube.com/@WODEMAYA
How Plastic Recycling Works In Nigeria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Ml6Po4d9Q
https://www.youtube.com/@tmaplus
Paver bricks with recycled plastics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OzirYG1MM0
https://www.youtube.com/@circleafrica1302/videos
Rhino Bricks Community Project: The Story Behind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKZ1INm3o1Q
https://www.youtube.com/@rhino.manish
Pavement tile from plastic waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac8t4NRX_Vo
https://www.youtube.com/@PlanetaryEcologist
Recycling revolutionary Veena Sahajwalla turns old clothes into kitchen tiles | Australian Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkbQynfSyY
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Amazing process of making foam concrete blocks | production of foam blocks with subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h6zBbVkuQI
https://www.youtube.com/@BbAmazingSkills
One Nigerian Entrepreneur's Solution For Millions of Old Tires | World Wide Waste | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFQ9zQekRio
How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches | World Wide Waste | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fXiboAGQvM
Can Indian Seaweed Replace Plastic? | World Wide Waste | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mzNkl9RQvI
https://www.zerocircle.in/
https://unwrapthefuture.org/
How 1.5 Million Plastic Bottles Are Turned Into Clothing Every Day | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FChEek0NSOI
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
- huge amount of work going into building material in cycling. Tiles, bricks, roofing, etc... What I didnt realise is that lots of information has been burried regarding viable materials that grow naturally?
Before the 1870s, American farmers secured their land with living fences so dense that no livestock could penetrate them—permanent biological barriers that cost nothing and repaired themselves. Then the steel monopoly introduced patented Barbed Wire and launched a marketing campaign to convince landowners to chop down their free fences and buy rusting metal instead. The tree they erased was Osage Orange—the densest, most rot-resistant timber native to North America, so hard it throws sparks from chainsaws and dulls axes on contact. Its wood contains a natural fungicide that allows an untreated fence post to sit in wet soil for over a hundred years without attracting termites or decay. The steel industry replaced a permanent, self-regenerating fence system with a product designed to rust and require constant replacement. An indestructible tree, erased from American farming so you'd never stop buying wire.
This Wood Breaks Chainsaws. Rot-Proof For 100 Years. Why Did The Steel Industry Erase It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHc7TeF6T7s
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
This Tree Grows 15 Feet Per Year. Burns Hotter Than Coal. Why Is It Illegal To Plant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDVKSWD013E
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coir
It has a higher tensile strength than many steel alloys, greater compressive strength than concrete, and grows to its full eighty-foot height in just sixty days—yet Western building codes have effectively banned its structural use. For centuries across Asia, this material has been used to construct multi-story scaffolding and entire homes that survive earthquakes because its flexible fibers absorb shockwaves that shatter concrete. That material is Timber Bamboo—technically a grass, functionally a carbon-negative "vegetable steel" that regenerates infinitely without replanting. The metallurgy and timber industries couldn't monopolize something that grows in backyards faster than supply chains can process pine lumber, so they weaponized zoning laws and building permits to keep it off the market. We remain dependent on heavily mined steel beams and slow-growth forestry while the strongest natural building material on Earth is classified as landscaping. A renewable construction revolution, banned not because it fails—but because it works too well.
This "Grass" Is Stronger Than Steel. Earthquake Proof. Why Do Building Codes Ban It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ew77DcJ7Y
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo
The Insulation That Grows Back FOREVER. Why Did Big Construction Bury It?
The insulation in your walls is failing—not because anything went wrong, but because it was designed to. Behind most drywall sits a product that slowly compresses, loses the air pockets that made it "efficient," and quietly turns into your next renovation bill.
This video is the story of the insulation that *grows back every year**: straw bale construction. It's cheap, local, high-performing, vapor-permeable, and—when plastered—can outperform conventional walls in both **R-value* and **fire resistance**. So why don't builders offer it, banks finance it, or insurers like it?
By the end, you'll understand how a better material gets "buried" without a single villain: codes written around standard stud bays, permitting systems that punish anything thick and unfamiliar, insurance categories that don't track real test data, and a post-war construction model built for speed, standardization, and repeatable profit.
The Insulation That Grows Back FOREVER. Why Did Big Construction Bury It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_eiI4L6uvI
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
- lots of similar materials to what is artifically made on Earth can be remade via simple transformation via bacteria, fungi, etc... and isn't anywhere near as energy intensive? Once you look deeper at cellular technology and nanotech you realise it's very similar to semi-conductor, computer, and digital electronics. The primary difference is that cellular technology also integrates many other types of signalling, interfaces, coding types/styles, etc... when compared to most other human technology?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/01/winter-jacket-purchaserepairdesign.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/01/3d-printing-background-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
This Fungus Makes Better Leather Than Cows. Grows In 2 Weeks. Exposed Why Fashion Hides It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnQLo1KuUsY
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires
This Fungus Grows Solid Bricks From Waste. No Cement Required. Why Do Engineers Refuse to Use It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MznRIIzolOA
https://www.youtube.com/@NaturesLostArchive
House That Regulates Its Own Temp. Why the Energy Industry Is Afraid of It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69aSYnCI-d8
https://www.youtube.com/@OffGridSecrets333
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovative_Design
https://ecovative.com/
https://shop.ecovative.com/blogs/blog/how-to-grow-a-mycelium-company
https://shop.ecovative.com/blogs/blog/ecovative-and-mycelium-materials-15-years-growing
This Bacteria Turns Sand Into Solid Stone. No Heat Required. Why Do Building Codes Reject It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLHAOr9lpM
https://www.youtube.com/@NaturesLostArchive
How Pee and Bacteria can turn Sand into Solid Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8UrxpJ-4w
https://www.youtube.com/@offgridfabio
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Tok%27ra_tunnel
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stargate+sg1+Tok%27ra+tunnel+crystals
- the "sea of fakery" that exists on Earth makes life really hard because you have to try to figure out what the truth is constantly. Even in basic matters such as whether things gets recycled or goes to landfill can't be answered easily? Why don't they just mandate/regulate that certain colours, shapes, logos, visibility under particular light filters of plastics correspond with certain plastic types to make sorting easier by AI/ML and robots at some point?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
How To Turn Waste Into Electricity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Qqzbz7hZE
https://www.youtube.com/@Interestingengineeringofficial
How People Profit Off India's Garbage | World Wide Waste | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7TcEnSOR3s
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://thaely.com/
https://www.thaely.com.au/
https://pakka.com/
https://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/sugar/kmsugarmills/KMS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagasse
https://phool.co/
https://worldbiomarketinsights.com/vegetable-market-produces-electricity-using-plant-based-biogas/
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/telangana/2023/aug/10/fuelling-the-future-with-bowenpallybiogas-plant-2603839.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man
https://www.carboncraftdesign.com/
https://www.codeefforts.com/
Incredible Process of Recycling Waste Plastic Bottles Into PVC Pipes | Mass Production Recycling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeJ8Kts5yYs
https://www.youtube.com/@skillsecrets1
How Millions Waste Plastic Bottles Convert into PVC Pipe Through Recycling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml1U4cG2RR0
https://www.youtube.com/@AsianProcessX
Extrude beams from plastic waste #preciousplastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNGuuSKE1pY
https://www.youtube.com/@OneArmyVideos
- there's so much garbage on Earth that you could send in the Autobots and they would still struggle? Modified versions of The Ocean Cleanup Robot, robo-soccer robots, manufacting robots, and military robots, etc... can be easily modified to work off of land such as beaches as well as the sea?
Most Ocean Plastic Flows From Rivers. Can Giant Trash Barriers Stop It? | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8pEdHzQcik
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://theoceancleanup.com/boyan-slat/
The Interceptor
Interceptor 007 in Los Angeles, California.
At an unveiling of a new cleanup system dubbed The Interceptor,[23] Slat cited research from the company which showed that 1,000 of the world's most polluted rivers were responsible for roughly 80% of the world's plastic pollution. In an effort to "close the tap" and drastically reduce the amount of plastic entering the world's oceans, The Ocean Cleanup had devised a barge-like system that was completely solar powered and was aimed to be a scalable solution that could be deployed around the world's rivers. As of mid 2022, Interceptors have been deployed in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Dominican Republic, and Vietnam, and are prepared to be deployed in Thailand and Los Angeles, California.[24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyan_Slat
This Robot Eats Trash #TeamSeas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXDx6DjNLDU
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober
https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/
https://theoceancleanup.com/
The Problem of Plastic Pollution in the Rio Motagua, Guatemala | Rivers | The Ocean Cleanup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ32lSQjWU0
Interceptor 006 Has Tackled Over 850,000 KG of Trash in Guatemala So Far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eHoibY4Rjw
Interceptor Trashfence Stops a Plastic Tsunami in the World's Most Polluting River (Then Fails)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVTWsQ23Pk
Interceptor 006 Is Ready to Tackle Trash Floods in Guatemala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXEljBpR3Cs
The Impact of Interceptors Deployed in All 7 of Kingston Harbour Gullies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsyHYPTsjU8
https://www.youtube.com/@theoceancleanup
https://www.youtube.com/@theoceancleanup/videos
Cleaning Up Bolivia's 'Lake of Plastic'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rxDCutGo68
https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergQuicktake
Spot's Got an Arm!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zbhvaac68Y
https://www.youtube.com/@BostonDynamics
Long Gill river bed brought back to life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_51yAoAW--Q
https://www.youtube.com/@intothewildyorkshirestyle3165
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=transformers+cowards
Sometimes Cowards Do Survive | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFPg2pUK9f4
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=transformers+autobots
Transformers (2007) Autobots Meeting ("Autobots, Roll Out") Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqp1ffEUEq0
Spot's On It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7atZfX85nd4
https://www.youtube.com/@BostonDynamics
It Takes Two to Tango
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSP3V9yrSPY
https://www.youtube.com/@The-AI-Institute
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+creator
The Creator | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex3C1-5Dhb8
The Creator | Final Trailer | 20th Century Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAZuGdi32bk
https://www.youtube.com/@20thCenturyStudios
- waterproofing from linseed
This $2 oil makes any wood 100% waterproof — permanently. The Chinese waterproofed entire naval fleets with it 2,500 years ago. The U.S. military classified it as a strategic war material in 1941. Then the $12 billion coatings industry buried it to sell you $40 sealants that crack and peel every 2 years. This is the full story, the science, and the step-by-step method.
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📊 SOURCES AND DATA:
• Tung Oil History & Properties — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_oil
• Confucius reference (~400 BC) & Song Dynasty shipbuilding — Canadian Woodworking, "Tung Oil: Debunking the Myths": https://canadianwoodworking.com/techn...
• Marco Polo account (13th century) — Waterlox Coatings Corp, "What is Tung Oil?": https://waterlox.com/what-is-tung-oil/
• USDA Tung Tree Introduction (1905) & American Tung Belt History — Biloxi Historical Society: https://www.biloxihistoricalsociety.o...
• 200,000 acres by 1938 — Springer, "The domestic tung industry" (Potter, 1959): https://link.springer.com/article/10....
• WWII Strategic Classification & Decline — Waterlox Coatings Corp: https://waterlox.com/what-is-tung-oil/
• Rise & Fall of American Tung Oil — Forest History Today (Robb & Travis, 2013): https://foresthistory.org/wp-content/...
• Alkyd Resin Development (1920s-1930s) — Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/science/al...
• DuPont Oil-Modified Alkyd (1926) — Grokipedia: https://grokipedia.com/page/Alkyd
• Linseed Oil History in U.S. Architecture — APT Bulletin, Gibbs & Wonson (2021): https://www.apti.org/assets/Publicati...
• Wood Coatings Market ($12 billion, 2025) — Future Market Insights: https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/...
• Linseed Oil Properties — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linseed...
$2 Oil KILLED the Paint Industry — BANNED Since 1934. ANY Wood. WATERPROOF. FOREVER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEdbpJ4-q8E
https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivalCamping7
- superstrong high speed growth wood?
There's a tree that grows 20 feet in a single year — and if you cut it down, it grows right back from the stump, giving you infinite lumber. Its water-dense cells require twice the temperature of normal wood to ignite, making it virtually fireproof, and it's so lightweight yet structurally strong that ancient Japanese cultures used it to build fireproof safes. It's called the Paulownia tree — the "Aluminum of Timber" — and it's the ultimate answer to deforestation and flammable housing. So why is it illegal to plant in much of the US? Forestry departments have classified it as an invasive noxious weed, effectively protecting a multi-billion-dollar pine timber industry that sells us slow-growing, flammable wood soaked in toxic fire-retardant chemicals. In this video, we dig into the science of this extraordinary tree and the real reason you're not allowed to grow it.
This Tree Grows 20 Feet A Year. 100% Fire-Resistant. Why Is It Illegal To Plant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFtvU0zQtO0
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia
- in myths/legends that it was said that some ancient advanced civilisations cities had shields? From a theoretical perspective it makes a lot of sense. These protect against weather anomalies, exist for defensive purposes, for the comfort of citizens, help provide an environmentally stable internal environment to help optimise for life generally, to maintain boundaries for food production, to reduce biohazard risks infecting different cities, etc? The best that humans can hope for currently are currently mountains to protect against external threats and adverse weather advents? The dome shape helps circulate air evenly no matter where you decide to push through/exert thermal controls (much like parabolic headlights and radio telescopes but similar to a lot of domed architecture that you see all over Earth)? This is unlike most human architecture which is often squared off?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/12/are-anti-weapons-technologies-viable.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/04/anti-weapons-technology.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/08/there-are-crocs-absolutely-everywhere-nt-residents-warned-to-stay-out-of-floodwaters-as-hundreds-evacuated
first contact protocol wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_extraterrestrial_intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_cultural_impact_of_extraterrestrial_contact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-detection_policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterrestrial_intelligence
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/First_contact_procedure
Qatar turns to desert farming to boost food security • FRANCE 24 English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAhPn_SWUVI
https://www.youtube.com/@France24_en
https://agrico.qa/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
http://biosphere2.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome
A Fast-Growing Weed Chokes Lakes In 50 Countries. Now Women Weave It Into Bags | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g83Fu0R2GGM
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stargate+atlantis+shield
Stargate Atlantis Starting The City Shield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl1lG6Bn3fw
https://www.youtube.com/@owenphillips5600
Atlantis sheld activation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbmCUajbmGM
https://www.youtube.com/@TARDISINFLIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stargate+sg-1+nox+city
Something worth taking home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dOuYtfMWL8
https://www.youtube.com/@SGtidbits
...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_winds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley
https://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/thematic-maps/united-states-mountain-ranges-maps.html
https://learnbps.bismarckschools.org/mod/book/view.php?id=152134&chapterid=53437
when did dome architecture first arrive on earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_early_and_simple_domes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Roman_and_Byzantine_domes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_cathedrals_and_great_churches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue_architecture
- people won't admit it but a lot of people are engaging in very basic forms of planetary engineering/terraforming?
6 Soil Secrets From WWII That Corporations Prayed You'd Never Learn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFAULte8bo
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGreenArchive-1
Medieval gardeners didn't have synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or modern tools yet many of them produced surprisingly high yields from small plots of land.
In this video, we uncover 10 clever gardening techniques medieval growers used to stretch their soil, protect crops, and boost harvests long before modern agriculture took over.
You'll Discover:
Natural soil-boosting methods that improved fertility
Companion planting tricks that reduced pests naturally
Crop rotation systems that prevented soil exhaustion
Smart spacing and layering techniques to maximize small gardens
Low-tech irrigation methods that conserved water
No chemicals. No machinery. Just practical knowledge passed down through generations.
Sometimes the old ways really were ahead of their time.
Medieval Gardeners Secretly Used 10 Tricks to Grow 50% More Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKgRiOkNIc
https://www.youtube.com/@MedievalTimesDiscovered
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mokoan
Australia Planted 150,000 Trees On A Toxic Lakebed—What Grew Back 15 Years Later Is Incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Wj9hhPJZk
https://www.youtube.com/@EarthFreshChannel
This reef didn't exist two years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0bkMhhMHOw
https://www.youtube.com/@MossyEarth
How Germany Built 30 Lakes and Millions of Trees on a 50-Mile Moonscape — Nobody Is Talking About It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR09X8LskGM
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
- if you take everything offshore/undersea certain things become interesting? If you have dome/biosphere on hard packed dirt or undersea then you can control food sources that double as invasive species more easily (unless it mutates)? Good examples of this are rabbits, guinea pigs, rodents, etc... which reproduce like crazy but are primarily land animals and aren't don't really like water and aren't reknowned known for swimming? Put a dome/biospheres on land on hard packed dirt with water surrounding/moat it is another option. A pond creates a clear boundary for acquatic animals unlike rivers which humans haven't really come to terms with?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/rat-backgroundresearch-professional-rat.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Covenant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaQuest_DSV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world%27s_100_worst_invasive_species
They Built a Farm 26 Feet Underwater. #Farming #NemosGarden #vegetables
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bJmaUKfoPD0
https://www.youtube.com/@Wowearth3886/shorts
Growing Plants Below The Sea That's Like Pandora's Planet in Avatar: INSIDE Underwater Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S7nv3V2zv8
https://www.youtube.com/@Nauctis
https://www.nemosgarden.com/
https://www.nemosgarden.com/visit-nemos-garden/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo's_Garden_(Noli)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroponics
This Is Why CANE TOAD CARCASSES In Australia Have THEIR BELLIES SLIT OPEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMiQJk9XdRo
https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleDiscovery24
It's Crazy! Vietnam Is Farming Billions Of Tiny Creatures That Once Devastated Global Agriculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlp30X_oseE
https://www.youtube.com/@Mandarintechmido
FREE Meat All Year: The 2-Rabbit Backyard System That Feeds Your Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbHS0Mg0Oi8
https://www.youtube.com/@SeymourGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopis
https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Prosopis
Brazil introduced an African fish into its ponds… and 80% of the native fish disappeared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqjZVHdBu38
https://www.youtube.com/@PlanetaRenacidoEs
China's Desert Is Shrinking Because of a Phone Game — The Before/After Doesn't Look Real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1FDNExPAFM
2,500 Years, 46,000 Tunnels, Zero Pumps — How Iran Turned the Desert Into Farmland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZwmMpBaWg4
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
Inside Biosphere 2: The World's Largest Earth Science Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yAcD3wuY2Q
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodStuff
human biosphere project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/biosphere/
https://www.internetgeography.net/topics/humans-and-the-biosphere/
- it's hard to believe sometimes but reviving degraded land requires progress on the security front to security/terrorist issues?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/12/are-anti-weapons-technologies-viable.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/04/anti-weapons-technology.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_denial_weapon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-access/area_denial
200,000 Refugees Made a Desert Grow Food — The Before/After Doesn't Look Real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKQK9Nl53wk
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopis
The $8 Billion Wall to Stop a Sahara Desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc-AW0t4UL0
https://www.youtube.com/@SolarPaths
https://www.youtube.com/@MegaFarmDiscoveries/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@theGCF/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@MossyEarth-FieldNotes/videos
Inside the UN's Massive Lake Project in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85P5uLz3eAY
Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdIG--b58
How Africa's Great Green Wall is Solving an Ancient Conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qwshdtijFY
https://www.youtube.com/@amillison
https://www.youtube.com/@amillison/playlists
- once you understand animal nerve and plant root structure you being to understand the process of terraforming and erosion better. Much like materials and structural engineering if you bond things differently and in a varying number of ways it can change the integrity of the soil structure? Thing about how carbon atoms can be bonded differently to yield charcoal, graphite, diamond, graphene, etc... The same thing but completely different properties. Suspect irregular root patterns bind soil more strongly then irregular patterns?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon
We grew a forest WITHOUT planting a single tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5g60g9vmlY
https://www.youtube.com/@planet-wild
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_hormone
https://leadfoundation.org/
https://justdiggit.org/kisiki-hai-movies/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer-managed_natural_regeneration
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-28/native-grasslands-victoria-endangered-restoration-seed-demand/106391114
How Ghana Is Saving a Dying River Using the Science of the Right Trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbXS8ajyu7M
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_engineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian_buffer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian_zone
How One Man Did What Governments Couldn't in Niger — And It's Still Working
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXa_OSkm8TY
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Rinaudo
How Ancient Chinese Farmers Built a 1,300-Year 'Water Engine' on a Vertical Cliff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV40oUGoZec
https://www.youtube.com/@SilkRoadDiaries25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honghe_Hani_Rice_Terraces
Never Plant Fruit Trees Alone — This Companion Trick Doubles Your Harvest!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibd7C8J_yiM
https://www.youtube.com/@GoldenSeniorsLiving
fruit tree guild
https://pipmagazine.com.au/fruit-tree-guild/
https://www.permablitz.net/articles/characteristics-tree-guild/
https://www.starkbros.com/growing-guide/article/how-to-build-a-fruit-tree-guild
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senescence
What was happening underneath is now documented across hundreds of peer-reviewed studies.
Long-term application of synthetic chemical fertilizers significantly decreases soil bacterial diversity. A 2022 study in Frontiers in Microbiology found that prolonged chemical fertilization suppresses the activity of key soil microbial functional genes — the biological machinery that makes soil alive. A 2023 Nature study confirmed that the effect varies by cropping system but is consistent: the longer the chemical dependence, the poorer the underground biology.
The earthworms went first.
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service classifies a count of 100 earthworms per square meter as good agricultural soil. Studies of chemically intensive farmland regularly find fewer than 5 earthworms per square meter. A 2021 ScienceDirect study modeled the estimated decline in global earthworm population caused by pesticide residues alone — and the numbers are irreversible on any human timescale. A 2024 American Chemical Society study found that pesticide-treated seeds cause juvenile earthworms to gain 30–80% less body weight compared to controls in untreated soil. They don't die immediately. They just stop growing. Stop reproducing. Disappear slowly from fields that were once full of them.
Forty years of chemical farming. Topsoil that used to support 300 earthworms per square meter now supports three.
Sources: Charles Darwin — The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms (1881) | USDA NRCS — Soil Quality Earthworm Indicators PDF | Frontiers in Microbiology 2022 — Long-term chemical fertilizer decreases soil bacterial diversity | Nature 2023 — Contrasting response of soil microbiomes to long-term fertilization | ScienceDirect 2021 — Estimated decline in global earthworm population caused by pesticide residue | ACS 2024 — Pesticide-treated seeds harm juvenile earthworm growth 30–80% | MDPI Horticulturae 2023 — Vermicompost auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, humic acids | PMC 2024 — Humic acids modulate auxin and cytokinin pathways in wheat | Tandfonline 2024 — 50% vermicompost + 50% NPK: best crop outcomes | SCIRP — 10t/ha vermicompost equals 100% NPK program | ScienceDirect 2025 — AMF and earthworms synergistically increase soil carbon and nitrogen | GlobeNewswire October 2024 — Global fertilizer market $349B to $408.5B | Zion Market Research — Vermicompost market $1.84B (2024)
#vermicompost #wormcastings #soilhealth #earthworms #deadsoil #soilrevival #organicfarming #chemicalfertilizer #syntheticfertilizer #humussoil #CharlesDarwin #regenerativeagriculture #soilbiology #permaculture #foodforest #growingfood #soilmicrobiome #naturalfertilizer #worms #hiddenagriculture #sustainablefarming #gardeningtips #soildegradation #GMO #agribusiness #Bayer #Syngenta #organicgardening #selfsufficiency #homesteading
Better Than Fertilizer. Brings 1,000 Worms In 3 Days. Revives Dead Soil. Why Is It Hidden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znGQTejp704
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molasses
@amygibbons2481
3 months ago
SWEETNER (sugar, honey, syrup, molasses, etc) + SOURCE OF NITROGEN (grass steeped in warm water or weak herbal tea) + SOURCE OF MICROORGANISMS (dry yeast, kefir, any live culture)
Combine all in warm water. Not hot, not cool.
No measurements given but the imagery is nice and it explains the reasoning for use of the mixture.
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@petewerner1494
12 days ago
Never mind this system. Very simply use your own urine as a nitrogen source. Pee in a liter or quart container and let sit in sun to ferment for a week. When you take the lid off, you'll smell the nitrogen,,,, it stinks. Dilute it 5 parts water to 1part fermented urine. Add one packet of SeptoBac to your liquid and pour onto your leaf pile. It'll eat those piles quite nicely. ( Septobac) is actually for septic systems to help dissolve solid matter. Works great to generate microbes that digest your leaves. Hope this helps.
Pour THIS Over Dry Leaves and Watch Them Turn Into Compost in DAYS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFl8AHeaioM
https://www.youtube.com/@TheUntoldHarvest
Are you tired of waiting months for your autumn leaves to break down? In this video, I reveal the ultimate secret to creating fast leaf compost right in your own backyard. You don't need expensive chemical accelerators or endless turning to get rich, dark soil. By brewing a simple, homemade biological liquid using kitchen ingredients, you can unlock fast leaf compost in just a matter of days. Watch as we explore the forgotten science of indigenous microorganisms that rapidly melt tough foliage. If you want to transform your garden and achieve fast leaf compost without the backbreaking labor, this 14-day miracle method is exactly what you need. Stop waiting and start growing!
The Secret Liquid That Melts Leaves Into Compost in Just Days!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WYbamgPz8E
https://www.youtube.com/@ClaraGarden0
RICE RINSE WATER + DRY LEAVES HOW TO CREATE "BLACK GOLD" FOR YOUR SOIL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwxoiGIcKzY
https://www.youtube.com/@gardeningathome5915
The Secret Liquid That Melts Leaves Into Compost in Just Days!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5CY3OGonOI
https://www.youtube.com/@Seedsoftimee
- the fact that Megafauna are so much larger makes it make easier to terraform larger territories at a time? The fact that humans are so good at destroying things (including their own planet) makes things easier to control if Megafauna plants were to begin to reproduce once more (they still exist but not in big numbers)? Part of the problem of human consumption based society is that it's destroying everything in sight. If you watch the how furniture, homes, goods and general have changed on time on Earth you'll notice that it's become less durable. This isn't just a pure consequence of consumption but a lack of raw materials as well. These things take time to form and their grow rate doesn't match the consumption rate of humans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
did megafauna trees grow faster or slower then current trees
https://theecologist.org/2014/jan/28/big-old-trees-grow-faster-absorb-more-carbon
https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/study-finds-oldest-trees-grow-slowest-even-youngsters
bringing back megafauna plants
https://e360.yale.edu/features/plant-de-extinctions-herbariums
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/loss-of-sumatran-rhinos-leaves-several-plant-species-without-a-seed-disperser/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_rewilding
are there are megafauna trees left
https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/
Ecological consequences of Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna Free
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/276/1667/2509/72730/Ecological-consequences-of-Late-Quaternary
are there any megafauna plants that still survive that can survive desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_brevifolia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanites_aegyptiaca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubaea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selaginella_lepidophylla
- rebuilding degraded land sometimes easier then you think. In hard packed soil manure, compost, and crop residues dumped into a pit (can be easily automated if people were interested?). Termites feed on the mixture and create tunnels to loosen the ground. Plant seeds and allow natural water flow to allow easier germination and growth. It's easy to see the usefullness of bacteria and borrowing animals (like worms, platypus, ants, termites, rabbits, rats, etc...) now in the context of terraforming (to deal with soil)? It's also easy to see the usefulness of flying (move seeds further distances and help polinate them) and ground based animals in this context now as well
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/rat-backgroundresearch-professional-rat.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
One Farmer Stopped the Sahara With a Stick and Manure
In northern Burkina Faso, the Sahara was winning. Soil so degraded it repelled rain. Harvests failing. Millions at risk. Then one farmer — using nothing but a stick and a handful of manure — began reversing desertification across 27 hectares of dead land. No machines. No chemicals. No government program.
The technique wasn't new. African farmers had used it for centuries before colonial administrators told them their methods were primitive and forced them to stop. By the time the droughts of the 1970s and 80s hit, the knowledge had been buried for a generation.
It took the UN until 2020 to give Yacouba Sawadogo its highest environmental honor. The technique he revived — zai pits — had already restored 6 million hectares across West Africa. 200 million trees. Food security for 3 million people.
The desert wasn't unstoppable. The knowledge was just suppressed.
In this video: how zai pits work, why the technique disappeared, how one farmer brought it back — and what it means for the 2 billion people living in regions where deserts are still expanding today.
One Farmer Stopped the Sahara With a Stick and Manure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz7Ik3uHKzo
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOriginPlate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za%C3%AF
https://www.greener.land/zai-pits/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacouba_Sawadogo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_the_Sahel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer-managed_natural_regeneration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Musk_Lake
The Sahel Was Planting the Wrong Trees for Decades — Here's What Actually Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3idiXzLEY84
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adansonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partnership
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292670186_Community_participation_and_ecological_criteria_for_selecting_species_and_restoring_natural_capital_with_native_species_in_the_Sahel
Restoring Food Systems with Nutritious Native Plants: Experiences from the African Drylands
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03795721231190779
Bury This in Your Garden and Watch Earthworms Multiply Like Crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjzlxkUBYy4
https://www.youtube.com/@NaturesBlueprint-q6t
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microorganism
Austrian Farmer Fined for Growing Food This Way. It Eliminated His $5,000 Water Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY92QVdUvLo
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur
One Buried Clay Pot Waters Your Garden For 6 Months — Why Did We Forget This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dDCCn5zuzg
https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenRootsOfficial
The Tiny Organisms Transforming Farming | Karsten Temme | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryca2RwoUQI
https://www.youtube.com/@TED
The 1000-Year-Old "Floating Farm" That Never Needs Soil or Water (That Was Banned)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3MpTfFIZ8o
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
how fast does algae grow
Algae grow extremely fast, with populations able to double in just 3 to 8 hours under ideal conditions (warmth, high light, and high nutrients). A visible algae bloom in a pool can develop in as little as 24–48 hours. Generally, in aquarium or culture settings, noticeable growth occurs within 3 to 4 weeks.
https://agsci.oregonstate.edu/sites/agscid7/files/bioenergy/education/algae_final_interactive.pdf
https://algaeresearchsupply.com/pages/measuring-growth
https://hydrosmart.com.au/the-science-behind-algae-growth-key-factors-and-inhibitors/
https://proclearpools.com/2025/07/10/how-fast-can-algae-grow/
This Soil Replaces All Fertilizer FOREVER. Why Did Big Ag Bury It for 60 Years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2INVpN0gs
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_ecology
China Replaced Tons Of Pesticides With 100,000 Hungry Ducks — The Efficiency Stats Are Terrifying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3bUBhdHWBs
https://www.youtube.com/@EXTREMEAGRICULTURE-999
- learning to not lie to yourself and others is important to make progress. A combination of satellite imaging, fossil record, history, scientic advances, etc... can be used to determine what is a sustainable and good ecosystem?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/01/3d-printing-background-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/regrowing-food-fruit-and-vegetables.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/08/corbett-report-podcast-downloader.html
How China Tried to Stop the Desert With Billions of Trees — And It Backfired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyfyAtKDAKI
How Ethiopia Is Restoring Entire Forests Without Planting Trees With Simple Ecological Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJpHFw9Raoc
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_long-horned_beetle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Gaoming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_imagery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satellite_map_images_with_missing_or_unclear_data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root
U.S. Released Hundreds of Giant Beavers Into the Desert With Zero Water to See What Happens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9JhzJbvQkI
https://www.youtube.com/@WATOP_VIDEO
Israel LET STARVING BUFFALO LOOSE IN A DEAD LAND — What Happened Next Stunned the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2XH9ExKIE
https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleDiscovery24
55 Million Fish Returned When They Destroyed this Dam — After 162 Years of Blocking a River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT-7V5apOJ8
California Released 50 Sea Otters Into a Dead Ocean — What They Did With Their Bare Paws Was Insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkzXUbAsCS4
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
A Million Birds Depend on These Salt Ponds — What's Happening to Them Nobody Expected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGXO_g8OW4
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://rewildingeurope.com/news/european-bison-arrive-in-the-iberian-highlands-for-the-first-time/
https://rewildingeurope.com/news/new-bison-herds-arrive-in-southern-carpathians-on-ten-year-rewilding-anniversary/
Building an Ancient Wetland: The Excavators That Brought Back the Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6sIzePR-A
https://www.youtube.com/@LeafofLifeWorld
- you never really think about ground water and mountain integration? Most of the time we go lower to store water not up (as in Persian/Iranian Qanat systems)? Tin roofs can drop temperatures by 18 F/11 C alone. This is terraforming at it's most primitive, basic level. Compost + cover crops + moisture. I don't see why they can't autobuild Qanat systems via drones/robots? If they can build self driving cars, accurate military drones, and autonomous spacecraft why can't they build super accurate terraforming drones?
India Turned a Desert Into a Lifeline Using Simple Water Systems — Nobody Saw This Coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uhz39WLcs
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thar_Desert
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ndigenous-water-harvesting-structure-nadi_fig6_8090699
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Nadis-village-ponds-constructed-to-store-rainwater-from-adjoining-natural-catchment-areas_fig37_337534514
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taanka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell
How Desert Communities in Arizona Are Transforming Wastelands Into Food Oases With Simple Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWPuCuGS9Bs
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_garden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicircular_bund
Why Modern Wells Fail — The Persian Qanat System That Delivers Water Uphill for Centuries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Ff2cuhlmA
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_water_sources_of_Persian_antiquity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity_in_Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iran_water_crisis_protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_(earthworks)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
AI-Powered Farming Robots That Work 24/7 | FULL DOCUMENTARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_vRkzAjt5Q
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCScience/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@abcaustralia/videos
How the World's Most Remote Megaproject Went Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00BHXAzYRTA
https://www.youtube.com/@TheB1M
How One Island Discovered the Food System We Abandoned Centuries Ago Using Unbelievable Tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJube9zFAO4
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-15/queensland-researchers-world-first-speed-breeding-crops/10894466
Inside Biosphere 2: The World's Largest Earth Science Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yAcD3wuY2Q
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodStuff
human biosphere project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/biosphere/
https://www.internetgeography.net/topics/humans-and-the-biosphere/
- re-terraforming dead zones on Earth helps a lot to make the most of what's currently available with regards to resources on Earth? One thing I've found interesting is the similarities between structure of blood vessels and roots? Reproductive system is merely upside down in many plants versus humans and animals? Earth is a good "practice planet" for terraforming because it at least contains a breathable atmosphere and naturally growing food? Humans haven't mastered crucial technologies like planet tilting, orbital repositioning, asteroid and planetary trajectory manouvering, etc... but if you figure it out so many possibilities open up? Even if you just slam a few asteroids which contain the elements you want into a planet and left a terraforming machine nearby that worked off of a renewable energy source, it could just wait things out until suitable conditions arise to layer in and sequence other events like a computer program that goes dormant? One thing I also find interesting is that many animals, seeds, etc... on Earth can survive being frozen solid and can come back to life. You don't really need advanced statis/life support technology to begin terraforming other planets?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionic_bonding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covalent_bond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_vessel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulatory_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root
China Buried Tons of Dead Plants Under the Desert Sand and 10 Years Later It Changed Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8DsPH_82Y
https://www.youtube.com/@freshtech_video
The Tiny Organisms Transforming Farming | Karsten Temme | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryca2RwoUQI
https://www.youtube.com/@TED
Deep in Northwest China's Xinjiang region lies the Taklamakan—the world's second-largest shifting sand desert. For millennia, its relentless expansion earned it a chilling nickname: the "Sea of Death." Now, the Taklamakan is shifting in a new direction. After nearly 50 years of painstaking efforts, November 2024 marked a historic milestone: the completion of a massive green belt encircling the entire desert. Now, the mission is shifting from reclamation to sustainability, as local pioneers find new and innovative ways to transform the desert's barren dunes into "gold" through green industry.
China vs. desert: Who's winning the battle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZiGC3F6gns
https://www.youtube.com/@cgtn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_Desert
What's Really Behind Traoré Burying Banana Stems in the Sahel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSLu7w0zLM8
https://www.youtube.com/@africadispatch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
how many insects can survive being frozen solid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_winter_ecology
how many animals can survive being frozen solid
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/can-any-animals-survive-freezing
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-freeze-then-thaw-explained
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/lists/animals-that-can-freeze-and-come-back-to-life/
percentage of body that is water
https://www.usgs.gov/water-science-school/science/water-you-water-and-human-body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_water
https://mountainfalls.co.za/blogs/content-1/what-percentage-of-the-human-body-is-water
Water content by mass
Value 74 %
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
percentage of bacteria that is water
Water content by mass
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=105482
The percentage of water in bacterial cell is?
https://brainly.in/question/9278926
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/68014/do-microorganisms-contain-water
percentage of plants that is water
https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-have-been-keeping-a-secret-from-us-about-how-thirsty-they-actually-are
https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/food_supply/student_materials/1090
https://www.groovyplantsranch.com/blogs/penny-flora-thoughts/water-wise-plant-care?srsltid=AfmBOorN0AwO270gl7N4wI8Y6rj4_D2BABwB9OXtI4f6eikJIyB7_ZF8
https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2023/feb/05/joanne-skelly-the-science-of-water-in-plants/
comparison moon soil vs earth
https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/earth-soil-vs-lunar-regolith-whats-the-difference/
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/composition/
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/LRO/activities/moon_dirt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Moon
size comparison moon regolith vs earth
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/05_1_snoble_thelunarregolith.pdf
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/composition/
fractal comparison roots and blood vessels
On the fractal dimensions of a root system
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00252.x
On the fractal dimensions of a root system
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00252.x
FRACTAL VASCULAR GROWTH PATTERNS
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4165502/
https://www.quora.com/Are-the-similarities-in-growth-patterns-between-mammalian-veins-and-tree-roots-just-happenstance
- master terraforming, sub-cellular engineering, nanotechnology, etc... and you can turn the seas, random buildings, arbitrary land into farmland, areas where you can grow materials, reduce your energy requirements, optimise food and material growth and production, etc... You can focus in on progress/wants rather then just needs? Human civilisation is is really inefficient when you think about it. Extremely wasteful, environmentally destructive, focused in on very silly things often, etc... If you bring back degraded land you can create carbon sinks, allow people to live further inland (rather then just by the sea) with lower density, have a more liveable life, etc...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/01/winter-jacket-purchaserepairdesign.html
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-16/Seawater-Rice-The-future-of-food-security--NiGUgtQlEc/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Longping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_gland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim_bladder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_land
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/21/murray-darling-basin-fishing-degradation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadband_Network
What's going on with sky-high food prices? - The Fifth Estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuz5SgcHnrQ
https://www.youtube.com/@cbcfifth/videos
Indoor Tomato Farm Using No Soil And 94% Less Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2vXHBsqeio
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCScience/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@abcaustralia/videos
How WA Wheat Became an Essential Ingredient in Japanese Udon | Landline | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLJI2KssFU
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
The Tiny Organisms Transforming Farming | Karsten Temme | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryca2RwoUQI
https://www.youtube.com/@TED
The Amish Composting Method That's Ready In 14 Days — Why Don't They Teach This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOOzJGTe8o
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires
- free sponges created naturally
A sustainable farm in northwestern Spain has perfected its method for growing luffas. The plants produce a super soft sponge that can be used for everything from scrubbing dishes to washing up in the shower.
How 200,000 Luffas Become Kitchen Sponges | Big Business | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsQ0l5a7xg
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
- low cost termite killer
A white powder that costs less than a dollar kills termites on contact and has been proven effective since 1934. It cannot expire. Termites cannot develop resistance to it. And the $28 billion pest control industry made sure you never heard about it. This video exposes boric acid — the cheapest, most effective termite killer ever discovered — and why the industry buried it under licensing laws and professional-only restrictions.
$1 Powder KILLED Every Termite FOREVER. BANNED 23 States. They PRAYED You'd Never Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8szaESZbg
https://www.youtube.com/@drlucasrichardshelth7
- free insect repellant
If you check the active ingredients on any commercial bug spray, you'll find chemicals ending in "-thrin"—synthetic compounds that chemical companies created after they realized they couldn't patent the flower those formulas were stolen from. For over a century, gardeners controlled pests with "Persian Powder," made by crushing the dried blooms of the Dalmatian Chrysanthemum. This white daisy contains Pyrethrin, a compound that causes instant paralysis in insects while remaining completely harmless to humans, dogs, and birds. After World War II, the chemical industry engineered synthetic pyrethroids that mimic the effect but don't break down in sunlight—lingering in groundwater and killing beneficial bees. They erased public knowledge of this perennial flower so they could sell you a toxic, patented imitation at a premium. Grow the daisy, dry the flower heads, crush them into powder, and you have an infinite supply of the world's most effective organic insecticide—free.
Plant This 19th Century Flower to Keep Pests Out Forever. Why Big Chem Stole It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCqY_jyoAMI
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
- I've never really thought about it but an automated group of robots can to help re-terraform Earth given the level of technology on Earth now? An automated driling truck + a automated dumping truck behind is enough to help. Periodically automated watering truck? With electrically powered vehicles even easier become all you need is basic undertanding of electronics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mining+robots
Chinese state-backed energy giant Huaneng Group has launched the world's largest fleet of driverless electric mining trucks in China's province of Inner Mongolia. Some 100 vehicles are equipped with autonomous driving systems developed by Huawei Technologies. In recent years, Chinese companies and authorities have been pushing to develop and implement such technology.
Driverless mining trucks begin operating in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie5BTH9mHUk
https://www.youtube.com/@SouthChinaMorningPost
Intelligent Mining: 5G-A & AI Take Driving Seat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4YLL8DKbn8
https://www.youtube.com/@huawei
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=driverless+cars
I Built A Soil Microbe Cloning Factory For 15 Dollars And It Replaced Every Fertilizer I Ever Bought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJoU8D_aL-E
https://www.youtube.com/@ClaraGarden0
https://www.greener.land/zai-pits/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacouba_Sawadogo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_the_Sahel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer-managed_natural_regeneration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
which tractor throttles/brakes can be entirely be controlled by obd
which tractor throttles/brakes can be entirely be controlled by canbus
https://www.deere.com.au/en/tractors/4wd-track-tractors/high-horsepower-9rx-tractors/technology/
https://www.valtra.com.au/technology.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_by_wire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhoe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractor
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=star+trek+discovery+terraform+moon
Star Trek Discovery | Lieutenant Stamets Succed To Quickly Create Spore Drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN7HIOKgbL8
https://www.youtube.com/@selectedscenes4563
- an interesting project is whether you can simply dig in water crystals into the ground and see whether or not this helps the ground more then compost? Another great aspect of a lot of bio-organics is that it goes dormant but doesn't really die. Just a little bit of help and it reboots
How Africa Is Restoring Its Dead Lands Without Planting Trees — And Nobody Talks About It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RRhA7ElsNk
How Niger Restored Millions of Hectares Without Planting Trees — With Simple Natural Regeneration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7BeXH4KTE
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_crystal_gel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormant
does fossil record indicate that sahara was previously rainforest
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-really-turned-sahara-desert-green-oasis-wasteland-180962668/
https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2016/11/29/6000-years-ago-the-sahara-desert-was-tropical-so-what-happened/
- once you figure out how rebuild a single planet you being to spread out to others? Some of the things you can do are really beautiful once you understand some basics? Convert space and weapons platforms into terraforming systems? Humans were told to just take of things?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stargate+universe+translate+ancient+life+support
Stargate - Life Support
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsj1d0R70_U
https://www.youtube.com/@TopClips4U
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Ancient_language
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Planet_builder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora
https://science.nasa.gov/sun/auroras/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/bioluminescence/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova
55 Million Fish Returned When They Destroyed this Dam — After 162 Years of Blocking a River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT-7V5apOJ8
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stargate+atlantis+mckay+destroy+solar+system
Stargate Atlantis - You Destroyed Three Quarters Of A Solar System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlLVvbSAYD0
https://www.youtube.com/@MrJasonWell
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stargate+atlantis+replicator+planet+nuke+scene
Stargate Atlantis Nuclear Strike HQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe-2slh4njQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Grassy1977
SG Atlantis - Horizon & Replicator Retaliation [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5wXNMEpto0
https://www.youtube.com/@EMPPT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_Prompt_Strike
- insulation and clothing
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/01/winter-jacket-purchaserepairdesign.html
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/jan/30/abch-clothing-transition-brand-new-clothes-sales-stopped-repair-scheme
The environmental disaster fuelled by used clothes and fast fashion | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3kuuBPVys
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Recycle Waste Cloth into Fiber with The Waste Cloth Shredder Machine #clothing #recyclingmachine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYQvhGVLJ0s
https://www.youtube.com/@shuliywasterecyclingmachin7900
Non Woven waste Recycling Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wDi9xApJqk
https://www.youtube.com/@texaco2003
Recycling Used Denim Into New Cotton With AFGI's Post Consumer Waste (PCW) Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKluoejAEA
https://www.youtube.com/@Heddelscom
https://www.andritz.com/products-en/recycling/nonwoven-textile/textile-recycling/jumbo-line
How Millions Of Jeans Get Recycled Into New Pairs | World Wide Waste | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_-yJ6NiP8
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://www.lycra.com/en/sourcing-network/artistic-fabric-mill
https://www.just-style.com/news/artistic-fabric-mills-partners-to-trace-denim-fabric/
https://www2.hm.com/en_au/sustainability-at-hm/our-work/close-the-loop.html
Only roughly 10–20 per cent of items donated to charity shops of items donated to charity shops are suitable for sale. The rest are either recycled or sent for resale in countries in the global south, resulting in a multi-billion pound industry propped up predominantly by charitable organisations. Most shoppers and people who donate their clothes don't know this is happening.
This redistribution of poor-quality unsold items from the west to wholesalers in places such as India, Senegal and Nigeria can undercut local manufacturers and put traders out of business. The sheer volume of textiles means that often huge swaths are dumped or, worse, openly burned on the streets, polluting the air with chemicals. Meanwhile the breakdown of (mostly cheap synthetic) clothing pollutes waterways with microplastics and releases toxic gases.
The hazardous work of picking through such waste for the purpose of recycling is mostly undertaken by women and people in marginalised groups, as shown in the short film Unravel. The film, based on anthropological work by the academic Lucy Norris documents the labour conditions of women in northern India who risk their health to shred and recycle unwanted western clothing back into yarn.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-16/second-hand-clothes-thrift-not-answer-to-waste/103585470
- lots of interesting materials out there. Fusing and bonding (much like metal alloys) could yield some interesting results for many materials. Humans clearly haven't mastered atomic let alone sub-atomic engineering. Fruit leather alternatives. Millions of tonnes of food waste is available to convert into useful materials?
Recycle Waste Cloth into Fiber with The Waste Cloth Shredder Machine #clothing #recyclingmachine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYQvhGVLJ0s
https://www.youtube.com/@shuliywasterecyclingmachin7900
How Vegan Leather Is Made From Mangoes | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAu0XGHpqco
https://www.youtube.com/@businessinsiderindia9294
https://fruitleather.nl/about-us/
How to Make Homemade Fruit Leather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7NDmyjn6A
https://www.youtube.com/@KevinOutdoors
Turning Cactus Into Leather: The New Sustainable Alternative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liL7CwxgAs
@kindayoungbutok
7 months ago
they said they harvest it, dry it for 3 days, then extract the proteins and fibers and make a paste and then combine it with a recycled material like polyester and that's how they make it. u lack any type of informational literacy skills my boy.
https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergQuicktake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerophyte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophyte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesophytic
https://www.fossil.com/en-au/
https://www2.hm.com/en_au/index.html
https://www.adidas.com.au/
Carmen Hijosa - Turning leaves into a sustainable alternative to leather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9KtxgdL95U
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEPO
https://www.ananas-anam.com/
Types of material used
The finest barong tagalog are made from a variety of indigenous sheer fabrics (nipis). The most common traditional materials used are listed below. The fabrics used can also be composites of two different materials (like cotton and jusi or silk and piña). Additionally, more informal barongs can also utilize common opaque textiles like cotton, linen, polyester, or ramie.[20][21]
Piña – a traditional sheer fabric hand-woven from pineapple leaf fibers. It has a fine lustrous silk-like texture and has a natural yellowish tinge. It is the most expensive and highly prized material for barong tagalog, due to its manufacturing difficulty, quality, and rarity. It is characterized by fibers of uneven thickness which gives the fabric the appearance of having streaks.[22][23]
Piña seda – a traditional fabric created by interweaving piña and silk (seda) fibers. It is usually less expensive than barong tagalog made purely from piña, but is more expensive than other types of material. It is characterized by piña fibers on the transverse weft, and silk fibers on the longitudinal warp. It is a lighter yellow color than barong tagalog made from piña.[22][23][24]
Jusi – a traditional sheer fabric hand-woven from abaca fibers. It has a polished texture and a natural off-white color. It is less expensive than the piña, but is still regarded as a classic material. It has a tendency to become brittle over time. It also commonly interweaves silk, cotton, or other fibers. It is sometimes misidentified as being made from "banana" fibers.[20] From the 1960s onwards, most fabrics labeled as jusi are actually jusilyn and organza fabrics. These fabrics are not traditional, but are cheaper mechanically woven substitutes largely from China.[25]
Piña jusi – similar to piña seda, it interweaves piña fibers with jusi fibers. It is less expensive than pure piña, but is more expensive than pure jusi.[26]
Pinukpok - a traditional rough and opaque fabric made from abaca fibers. It is primarily a product of the Bicol Region.[27]
Sinamay – a traditional opaque fabric made from loosely woven abaca fibers. It is cheaper than other abaca materials and has a coarse texture.
Jusilyn – a modern mechanically woven fabric made from silk or cotton and polyester, specifically made to resemble jusi fabric. It is less expensive than the jusi and is more opaque. Unlike piña, it has fibers with an even texture and an off-white color, lacking the characteristic streaks of piña or jusi. It can sometimes be chemically painted to give an appearance closer to traditional fabrics, and may even be sold off as counterfeit piña or piña seda fabrics.[20][28][24]
Organza – a modern mechanically woven fabric made from silk or polyester from China. It has a polished and even texture, although it can be regarded as being too shiny. It is the cheapest material used for formal barong tagalog.[20][25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barong_tagalog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C3%B1a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abac%C3%A1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramie
Vegan mushroom leather fashion from Indonesia | Global Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe3Vwnnp-VA
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alloy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fabrics
Experiments to Make Self-Cooling Fabric
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdevqOivoHo
https://www.youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight
- coming to realise that there is almost always a recyclable alternative now? Is there enough waste material above ground to get rid of mining entirely? Recyling to take the place of mining companies?
How Adidas, Asics, and Other Shoemakers Deal With Waste | World Wide Waste | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C032oem5eaY
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://www.fastfeetgrinded.eu/
Recycle footwear
So here we are, in full operation to recycle footwear with our world's first shoe recycling installation.
We all wear shoes and another 24 billion shoes are added every year. 95% of our used shoes still end up in landfills or will be incinerated, with major impact on our environment.
We provide the solution.
Our magic
FastFeetGrinded has developed a unique recycling installation that pulverizes and separates all types of footwear.
We treat 3 main sources:
simply recycle old shoes which can no longer be worn;
unused materials or residues during the production process;
and sample shoes that have never been worn, but are not for sale purposes.
https://www.fastfeetgrinded.eu/recycle-footwear/
https://www.algenesismaterials.com/
https://unimat-traffic.com/sustainable-solutions-the-advantages-of-recycled-rubber-products/
- alternatives to plastic in plentiful supply
How Avocado Waste Is Turned Into Plastic | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJY2A-HaQRY
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
How To Replace Plastic With Avocados, Algae, Mushrooms And Sugarcane | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MhPY4UAm7w
https://pakka.com/
https://www.recyclingstartups.org/startup/lifepack/
https://aim2flourish.com/innovations/plates-you-can-plant
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://mitticool.com/product/mitticool-clay-refrigerator50-liter/
https://mitticool.com/
https://www.ecovative.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovative_Design
https://www.bloommaterials.com/bloom/
- there are some remarkable projects in the developing world. Bamboo toilet paper, seaweed paper, fabrics made from fruit, etc... Basically, a lot of raw fibrous materials can be converted into similar products
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
Crowdfunding for a greener Ghana | Global Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTqcHLyYBQY
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
https://www.get-invest.eu/fund/frankly-green/
https://www.facebook.com/franklygreen.crowdinvesting/
https://thegoodroll.com/en-nl/blog/48/we-have-pandastic-news-about-our-bamboo-toilet-paper
How Banana Waste Is Turned Into Rugs, Fabric, And Hair Extensions | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ust6Bh1D3GY
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
Banana Fibre Extraction Process, Get high quality Banana Fibre from Banana Stem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buptRJw3qSQ
https://www.youtube.com/@connectwithatul2073
https://www.indiamart.com/taruwaragroindustries/
https://texfad.co.ug/about.php
Can "Golden Fiber" From Swamp Reeds Replace Plastic? | World Wide Waste | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1zDJ1qZTlg
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
They Make Eco-Friendly Cloth From Banana Waste | Anuj Ramatri - An EcoFreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyMaLdQ_zB0
https://www.youtube.com/@AnujRamatri
Crowdfunding for a greener Ghana | Global Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTqcHLyYBQY
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
How Banana Plant Waste Is Turned Into Sanitary Pads in India | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf4QoPZQmPM
https://saathipads.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
- huge amounts of primary, secondary, and ternary damage being cause by landfills: gas, leak of chemicals into groundwater, damage to fertility of soil, etc... 1 tonne of garbage = 6.2tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the form of methane. Methane = 62x more potent then CO2 as greenhouse gas. 13B tonnes of CO2 coming from landfills?
How Gasification Turns Waste Into Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm0jslIE1kk
https://www.youtube.com/@CNBC
https://sierraenergy.com/
https://sierraenergy.com/company/about-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Energy
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/plasco-rising-from-the-ashes-waste-to-energy-company-looks-to-make-comeback
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_device
https://enerkem.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enerkem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasification
- bioblocks same power density/energy as firewood? Basically, organic material that's compressed into a brick that can you light/fire. Conceptually not different from burning garbage
How Logs of Fruit Pulp Replace Firewood and Charcoal | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s15_SBuMUB0
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomace
https://goodness-exchange.com/fruit-pulp-fuel-of-the-future/
https://bio-blocks.com/bio-block-products-compressed-blocks-fire-starters-kindling-fire-pits/compressed-wood-fire-logs-12-pack-of-bio-block/
https://www.mapellet.com/Wood-Bricks/Bio-Blocks-Firewood.html
Briquettes Made From Coconut Waste Could Reduce Deforestation | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meBd1GHC2yg
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
- limited recycling capabilities so far in the battery world
Why It's So Hard To Recycle Electric-Car Batteries | World Wide Waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDoOcBMAHw
https://www.youtube.com/@businessinsiderindia9294
https://li-cycle.com/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_cycle
@muskrat3291
6 hours ago
Because you lack the knowledge of what is happening in the industry. Battery recycling is a huge growth industry with 80+ companies and billions of dollars being invested. These companies are surviving right now by recycling consumer electronics batteries, eBike, and scooter batteries, manufacture waste and rejects. EV batteries are not expected to be of any quantity until at least 2030. Companies that recycle EV batteries include Li-Cycle, Redwood Materials, Aqua Metals, Comstock Mining, LiNiCo, RecycLiCo, Ascend Elements, Lithion, Hydrovolt, Mercedes, EcoNiLi Battery Inc., Kemetco Research, American Battery Technology, ReCell, BASF, Northvolt, Volkswagon Group, Duesenfeld, Nth Cycle, Accurec, Botree, TRS Recycling, Primobius, Neometals, Umicore, GEM, Brump and the list goes on
EV batteries can't be recycled?! EV Myth #3 of 5
EV Myths You Thought Were Facts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/48sRVoW2a4A
https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringwithRosie
Eco India: With 50,000 tonnes of battery waste, India has a long way before EVs can be called green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj3djh2gmCU
https://www.youtube.com/@ScrollIn
https://attero.in/
https://attero.in/about/

Endless Food Creation/Generation:

- lots of people seem to starving for no reason? One thing I've figured out is that it's easier to get to the truth when people's lives are on the line and often that's where solutions come from. One thing you'll realise when examining the diets of people around the world they often tend to favour things which are easy to produce and relatively nutritious and tasty locally. The imperial/colonial countries are a bit luckier since they can pretty much access anything most of the time
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
The "Banned" Garden That Grows In Trash: How Favelas Feed Themselves (10 Min Setup)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWsz92N-q4
https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenRootsOfficial
Nigerian families turn backyards into mines amid poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzJ5HapIC08
https://www.youtube.com/@Reuters
Kenya drought: More than 3 million people facing hunger in Turkana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3qAYZr3jM
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
How WW2 Rationing shaped Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk6Tcw_5WEI
https://www.youtube.com/@ImperialWarMuseums
The Harsh Reality: 'Pagpag' - Food from Garbage in the Philippines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQj8qOMXFzs
https://www.youtube.com/@robloak
17 Tactical SURVIVAL Meals Ancient Chinese Farmers Carried to the Terraced Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVrZk6eCaLE
https://www.youtube.com/@SilkRoadDiaries25
Desperate for food drought-stricken Kenyans turn to the gingerbread tree
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg521yj9lvo
The Forever Vegetable. One planting, 20 years of food. Why Is This Not in Your Garden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD96x8boeRg
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
Better Than Spinach. The "Immortal" Tree That Feeds You For 20 Years. (Don't Buy Seeds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbMdVnErD8c
https://www.youtube.com/@ReclaimedNature
what plants grow at 5 degrees celsius
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/houseplants/hpgen/cold-tolerant-indoor-plants.htm
- the big food and big agriculture industries seem to be supressing huge amounts of information on potentially easy to grow, low resource intensive, high yield food sources? As a child I wondered why we couldn't grow food/fruit trees everywhere (such as nature stripes). Only if you think in terms of top down control does it make more sense?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
The food industry is destroying us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo9iKHhcZuQ
https://www.youtube.com/@SimonClark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus_cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
Humble farmer who feeds millions | A Current Affair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwIozwaYOks
https://www.youtube.com/@ACurrentAffair9
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
On the Greek island of Ikaria—where living past ninety is ordinary—grandmothers serve a summer dish made with a plant Americans are taught to fear: Black Nightshade. Western guidebooks stamped a skull on this species a century ago because lazy botanists never bothered to check the chemistry, and the mistake stuck. Ikarians call it Styfno, boil the leaves for fifteen minutes to leach out the bitterness, then dress them with olive oil, lemon, and sweeter greens like Amaranth to make Horta. Doctors credit this antioxidant-rich dish for the island's remarkably low cancer rates. One rule: only eat ripe black berries—green ones contain solanine, the same toxin in green potatoes. A free superfood growing in American backyards, mislabeled as poison for a hundred years, while the longest-lived people on Earth eat it for dinner.
The Greeks Eat This 'Poison' To Live To 100. Why American Guidebooks Say It Kills You?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04YYNfF45iU
Grow Unlimited Protein In A Cardboard. Harvest Every 7 Days. The 5 Minute Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI7jXGnlR-Y
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_dulcamara
Better Than Tomatoes. Produces Year-Round, Stores 6 Months, Never Needs Replanting.
Stop growing annual tomatoes. Plant this 20-year tree instead.
A standard tomato plant dies after 4 months. The Tamarillo produces 3,000 lbs of fruit over 20 years, yields in winter, and stores for 6 months without refrigeration. In this video, we uncover why the "Red Gold" of the Victory Garden era was erased by seed companies and how you can reclaim this perennial powerhouse today.
Better Than Tomatoes. Produces Year Round, Stores 6 Months, Never Needs Replanting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CtWlJbSDJQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ReclaimedNature
Better Than Honey. Produces For 60 Years. Grows On A Bush — Why Don't You Know It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exnfhT2Em90
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio
This Tree Produces 40 Different Fruits on One Trunk — Why Did the USDA Try to Destroy Every Specimen?
One tree. Forty different fruits. Peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, nectarines—all growing from the same trunk.
In 2008, when a 150-year-old heritage orchard was about to be bulldozed, art professor Sam Van Aken made an insane decision: he bought the entire orchard and taught himself a lost agricultural art that the USDA had systematically erased.
Between 1900 and 1950, America lost 15,000 heritage fruit varieties. Extension services stopped teaching grafting. Ancient orchards were destroyed for uniform, patentable crops. The knowledge wasn't lost by accident—it was deliberately buried.
But Van Aken's Tree of Forty Fruit is bringing it back. One tree produces 300 pounds of diverse fruit annually, feeds a family for months, requires 40% less water, needs zero fertilizers, and costs a fraction of what supermarket produce costs over its 50-year lifespan.
This is the story of how one man's rebellion against industrial agriculture became a movement—and why the food industry wanted this technology dead.
This Tree Produces 40 Different Fruits on One Trunk — Why Did the USDA Try to Destroy Every Specimen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSJJUEyInKQ
https://www.youtube.com/@OutlawedHarvest
The 5,000-Year-Old Method Big Ag Buried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtDDUjNIVWg
https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenRootsOfficial
"More Protein Than Spinach, Endless Natural Fertilizer—Why Are They Trying to Erase This Plant?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Z-j3z-wpg
https://www.youtube.com/@Hiddennaturevault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifolium_repens
The fastest growing protein source on Earth. NASA tested it. Thailand ate it for centuries. You can grow it in a bucket.
What if everything you believed about growing protein was wrong? This video reveals a plant so small it fits on your fingernail yet produces more protein per square foot than any crop in modern agriculture. While industrial farming demands acres of land and months of waiting, this forgotten food source doubles every two days in nothing more than a container of water. Cultures across Asia have harvested it for generations. Space agencies study it for long duration missions. Yet most Western gardeners have never heard of it. We trace the journey from Thai village kitchens to orbital research stations and show you why this ancient protein source vanished from mainstream knowledge.
The Science
Peer reviewed research confirms what sounds impossible. Studies published in Food Chemistry and the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry document protein concentrations reaching forty five percent dry weight with complete essential amino acid profiles meeting World Health Organization standards. Growth rate data from Scientific Reports and Current Biology show biomass doubling times as short as one point three four days under optimal conditions. Yield comparisons published in ScienceDirect demonstrate protein output seven to ten times higher per hectare than conventional crops like soybeans. Carbon footprint analysis shows environmental impact nearly seventy times lower than beef production. NASA research dating back to nineteen sixty six validates its potential for closed loop food systems.
Grow Unlimited Protein In A Bucket. Doubles Every 48 Hours. The 5 Minute Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpE3Z0Zs0sc
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnoideae
https://agrifutures.com.au/product/duckweed-a-potential-high-protein-feed-source/
https://www.bunnings.com.au/products/garden/plants/aquatic-plants
https://www.bunnings.com.au/diy-advice/garden/planting-and-growing/how-to-grow-aquatic-plants
The Forever Vegetable. One planting, 20 years of food. Why Is This Not in Your Garden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD96x8boeRg
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovage
- there is some food that only requires water and some decaying matter or fertiliser to grow extremely rapidly. Would be great to genertically engineer this stuff to actually taste good and provide a more balanced food profile?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
🔬 THE SCIENCE: A 2020 study from Food Chemistry confirmed stinging nettle contains:
30-35% protein by dry weight (chicken: 27%, beef: 26%)
Complete amino acid profile including all 9 essential amino acids
Iron: 4.1mg per 100g (red meat: 2.6mg)
Calcium: 481mg per 100g (milk: 125mg)
Vitamin C: 333mg per 100g (orange: 53mg)
Research from University of Vienna (2017) documented nettle protein digestibility at 85% — superior to soy (78%) and comparable to whey (88%). Unlike whey, it requires zero industrial processing, zero water-intensive agriculture, and zero corporate supply chains.
⚔️ THE SURVIVAL HISTORY:
WW2 Europe (1940-1945): Allied governments issued official nettle-harvesting guides to starving civilians
Medieval England: Nettle pottage fed peasant populations during grain failures for 400 years
Ancient Rome: Roman soldiers carried nettle seeds during campaigns, planting them in conquered territories for emergency nutrition
Scottish Highlands: Nettle was primary spring protein source before livestock recovered from winter
In every food crisis in European history, nettle kept populations alive. It was so reliable that 17th century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper wrote: "Nettles need no description — they are known to everyone who has walked through a field."
By 2024, 90% of Americans have never eaten one.
💰 THE SUPPRESSION: The protein supplement industry sells:
Whey protein: $0.08/gram protein, requires dairy industry infrastructure
Soy protein: $0.05/gram protein, requires GMO agriculture and chemical processing
Pea protein: $0.07/gram protein, requires industrial extraction equipment
Nettle protein: $0.00/gram — grows wild everywhere, harvested with gloves, processed with boiling water.
No company profits from a weed you pick yourself. So no company tells you about it.
Between 1960-2000, USDA nutrition research funding shifted almost entirely to commodity crops — corn, soy, wheat. Wild edible research received 0.3% of agricultural nutrition budgets despite wild plants consistently outperforming domesticated crops nutritionally.
This 'Useless' Plant Is Actually 80% Protein.. Why Don't We Eat It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr1g-PVCSf0
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio
Discover the 2,400-year-old "infinite food" system that can safely feed your family for decades without commercial feed, electricity, or government permits.
Are you truly prepared for the next major supply chain collapse? When grocery store shelves go empty and prices skyrocket, depending on the fragile industrial food complex is a fatal mistake. In this video on Primal Methods, we reveal a highly guarded, off-grid survival secret from ancient China that produces endless organic protein right in your own backyard.
This self-sustaining backyard pond aquaculture (polyculture) combines hardy ducks, powerful aquatic plants, and fast-growing fish to create a completely closed-loop biological engine. For under $600, you can easily build a survival food fortress that requires zero chemical fertilizers, no expensive mechanical filters, and absolutely no daily feeding schedules. It is the ultimate prepping strategy for absolute food security, true independence, and off-grid self-reliance.
Don't let your family's future depend on a system designed to fail. Take control of your food supply today!
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The Banned 2,400-Year-Old "Infinite Food" System You Need Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdGGXlZlvI
https://www.youtube.com/@PrimalMethods
This video explores how a backyard pond system can provide a steady source of free protein for up to ten years. We demonstrate the setup required to maintain this sustainable food source right in your own garden.
Discover the mechanics behind creating a self-sustaining ecosystem that supports fish growth with minimal ongoing costs. We cover the design, maintenance, and benefits of having a backyard pond dedicated to food production. Learn how to achieve greater food security through this efficient aquaculture method.
Please subscribe to the channel to watch more videos on homesteading and self-sufficiency!
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FREE Protein for 10 Years: The Backyard Pond System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rid63fpwM_I
https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivalGarden2424H
Tested forages in this video:
Azolla
Duckweed
Spirodela (giant duckweed)
Water spinach
Watercress
Floating forages are supplements, not complete feeds. Used correctly, they can dramatically reduce feed costs, improve yolk color, increase protein intake, and stack nutrient cycling into your system. Used wrong, they waste time and money.
If you're raising chickens, ducks, pigs, or mixed livestock on a backyard, homestead, or small farm scale — this video shows what actually pencils out.
I Tested 5 Floating Forages Side-By-Side - One Tripled My Production (Pigs Rejected This One)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkWiHWWYfc
https://www.youtube.com/@RegenerativeFarmersofAmerica
There is a grain so powerful that the Aztec Empire dedicated 200,000 acres to it—more than any crop except corn. Amaranth delivered complete protein, survived drought, and fed 20 million people. Then in 1519, Spanish conquistadors made it punishable by death. Not because it failed. Because it was the body of the gods.
Amaranth contains 13-14% complete protein with all 9 essential amino acids. It produces more usable protein per acre than cattle grazing and thrives in conditions where wheat dies. The Aztecs mixed it with honey to create tzoalli—sacred dough shaped into gods, worshipped, and eaten. To the Spanish, this was demonic. To modern agriculture, it's a threat.
By 1970, amaranth had nearly gone extinct. Today it's sold as a $30/lb superfood in health stores while wheat and corn—both incomplete proteins—dominate 90% of global grain production. The ban ended, but the seed companies never brought it back.
This is the story of how religion, conquest, and industrial agriculture buried the most nutritious grain in the Americas.
More Protein Than Beef Per Acre, Banned by Conquistadors, Erased From Every Farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THko148DiaY
https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenRootsOfficial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth
Better Than Kale. The Sweet "Immortal" That Feeds You For 10 Years. (Don't Buy Seeds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeKCtBvGPdk
https://www.youtube.com/@ReclaimedNature
- if you grow ingredients together makes it easier or harder?
Better Than Wheat: The Grain That Feeds ALL Of Africa Without Irrigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqFRm5QOdNg
https://www.youtube.com/@TheCensoredGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum
8,000-Year-Old Drink. $1 to Brew. A $90B Industry Prays You Never Make It at Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UIr9vPPpcw
https://www.youtube.com/@LostPlantRemedies
Plant Once, Harvest 75 Tubers: The Food They Turned Into a Pest
There is a food that produces seventy-five tubers from a single plant. You plant it once, and it regenerates year after year. It survives droughts that kill everything else. It stores indefinitely without refrigeration. And it contains complete protein, healthy fats, and resistant starch that doesn't spike blood sugar.
Today, agricultural departments across the world have classified it as one of the worst pests on Earth.
They sell you herbicides specifically engineered to kill it. They publish technical bulletins calling it a menace. Chemical companies have made millions teaching farmers to poison it out of existence.
This is the story of Chufa (Cyperus esculentus), the superfood they turned into a weed.
In this episode of Nature Lost Vault, we uncover the shocking history of a crop that sustained humanity for 16,000 years. We travel to pre-dynastic Egyptian tombs, where pharaohs were buried with this tuber to fuel their journey to the afterlife. We explore its survival in Spain as the key ingredient in Horchata de Chufa, and its persistence in African agriculture.
But we also investigate the modern war on this plant. Why is "Yellow Nutsedge" considered a public enemy by industrial agriculture? Why do we spend millions trying to eradicate a plant that yields more food per acre than wheat, with zero fertilizer?
The answer reveals a disturbing truth about our food system: A crop that cannot be controlled, patented, or killed is a threat to profit.
This knowledge isn't lost. It's waiting for us to remember.
If this vault opened something for you, and you find value in these stories, hit subscribe and the bell icon. Every like and every share helps preserve this forgotten wisdom together.
The Superfood They Turned Into a Weed: Why Is It Illegal to Grow This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYjndrw8Ibc
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
https://naturelostvault.com/book.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus_esculentus
- if Earth was terraformed by an alien species as per some theories it makes sense why a lot of food is so bright/colourful. Makes it easier to identify via drones and eyesight for animals and humans? Due to large scale planetary environmental destruction, many parts of Earth are basically a blank slate waiting to be re-terraformed. Beautiful training area before humans hopefully one day begin to populating other planets/worlds? I suspect once you understand bio-organics it may be as just a case of slamming releant meterorites into your target planet and then sequencing life in gradually. Unicelluar, multicellular, Megafauna (required if you can't figure), and more complex and higher order life (like humans) towards the end, etc... That theory makes way more sense then the purist ones you see in religious texts and myths or the pure evolutionary theories?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/03/prophetsgenesisterraforming-mars-seek.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/21/murray-darling-basin-fishing-degradation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/19/like-the-flip-of-a-switch-its-gone-has-the-ecosystem-of-the-uk-largest-lake-collapsed-aoe

The Yangtze River: Why China’s ‘beating heart’ is too big to fail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMeg_zmDgdE

https://www.youtube.com/@SouthChinaMorningPost

Capitalism Might Just K*ll Us All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeWyARGkFDc

https://www.youtube.com/@SecondThought

India is cleaning up Ganga river. Here’s how.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0BKaVbcC8I

https://www.youtube.com/@UNEP

The Yamuna, India's most polluted river

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHCaIvPN2rY

https://www.youtube.com/@theGuardian

global satellite map dried up riverbed

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/20/world/rivers-lakes-drying-up-drought-climate-cmd-intl/index.html

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/08/26/visuals-extreme-drought-dries-up-rivers-globe-satellite-images/

https://kermap.com/en/satellite-imagery-climate-change-monitoring-drought-iraq/

https://www.gettyimages.com.au/photos/dry-riverbed-aerial

https://theconversation.com/rivers-can-suddenly-change-course-scientists-used-50-years-of-satellite-images-to-learn-where-and-how-it-happens-183604

Does nature have the right to be protected? | WILD HOPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntdzbxTtv7A

https://www.youtube.com/@naturepbs

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-16/tech-savvy-farmers-use-youtube-to-promote-agriculture/103469404

The Extreme Rewilding of Chernobyl: this is what happens when humans leave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCkQoqYbHI

https://www.youtube.com/@MossyEarth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)

Wildlife Takeover: How Animals Reclaimed Chernobyl | Free Documentary Nature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUNhqnpiOE

https://www.youtube.com/@FreeDocumentaryNature

'Oldest living thing on earth' discovered in Chile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBHQ4HnrxO4

https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish

Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists | 60 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqhcZsxrPA

https://www.youtube.com/@60minutes

El Nino usually means a higher chance of hot, dry conditions. So why is it so wet? | 7.30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lHCJy1NLh4

https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/24/anlife-what-does-an-unusual-evolution-simulator-have-to-say-about-ai
https://anlife.app/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mission+to+mars+planetarium
Mision a Marte (Final)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPRa-lWZ-Qc
https://www.youtube.com/@seroleal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_to_Mars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paleontology
food forest wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodscaping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforestry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
They Released Millions of Frozen Bees Into Sahara and Left Them for a Year. Result Shocked the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTsyDzPaFw
U.S. Released Hundreds of Giant Beavers Into the Desert With Zero Water to See What Happens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9JhzJbvQkI
What Happened to the Desert in the U.S. When They Put Thousands of Beavers There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTFmrgF1OX4
This Is How Beavers Finished a 7-Year Unfinished Dam in Just 48 Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTHDMq-5MQ
https://www.youtube.com/@WATOP_VIDEO
Experts Reintroduced 10,000 Crabs Into a Collapsed Ecosystem — What Happened Next Defied All Logic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4tcJB1OpAg
https://www.youtube.com/@KolaDepth
NYC Is Dumping One Billion Oysters Into Its Harbor—And It's Working"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kinmq0UPizg
https://www.youtube.com/@cheddar
A Million Birds Depend on These Salt Ponds — What's Happening to Them Nobody Expected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynGXO_g8OW4
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
https://rewildingeurope.com/impact-stories/european-bison/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(China)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_collection
https://e-catalogs.taat-africa.org/org/technologies/demi-lune-method-rainwater-harvesting-method
https://www.irri.org/news-and-events/news/reinventing-salt-tolerant-rice-breeding-ground-zero
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-16/Seawater-Rice-The-future-of-food-security--NiGUgtQlEc/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_fruit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Agricultural_robotics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_drone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAV-IQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioreactor
- it's obvious that many people have thought about eating invasive species. Seems like a logical option. The only problem is that many of humanity's past efforts into ecosystem modification have been proven to be disastrous. Needs more resarch and work. The environment is being pretty badly mismanaged on Earth. How many invasive species are edible, tasty, nutritous, etc?
which invasive species are also edible
Eating invasive species has been suggested by people such as ecologist Joe Roman as a way of reducing their numbers.[1] This is a list of cases where this has been suggested, tried and/or is now established.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_edible_invasive_species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_invasive_species
Invasive green crabs aren't going anywhere, so why not eat them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSW0PTQb7MI
https://www.youtube.com/@NEWSCENTERMaine
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=invasive+species+as+food+source
Eating Lobsters Found In Berlin's Public Parks? | From Pest To Delicacy - Berlin Lobster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fLRxgyNIzg
https://www.youtube.com/@DWFood
Establishing sustainable onshore lobster aquaculture from hatchery to market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au562CRkAps
https://www.youtube.com/@IMASTas
How America's Biggest Indoor Shrimp Farm Sells 2 Million Shrimp Every Year — Dan Does
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AK_RQ1uaGs
https://www.youtube.com/@eater
20 Most Amazing Floating Fish Farms That Actually Exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXzcUsuIPQE
https://www.youtube.com/@EXPLOREX000
- salt is extracted from shallow plans placed near sea water and evaporated in North Korea?
20 FOODS THE NORTH KOREANS STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE.
In a country where resourcefulness and survival are a way of life, North Koreans have mastered the art of making food last — sometimes for years, even decades. In this video, we'll uncover 20 North Korean foods that almost never expire, revealing how tradition, necessity, and ingenuity come together in one of the world's most secretive food cultures.
From fermented vegetables and salted seafood to dried grains, noodles, and pickled roots, discover how everyday ingredients are preserved using ancient Korean methods — without refrigeration or modern packaging.
These aren't just survival foods — they reflect a lifestyle built on discipline, self-sufficiency, and adaptation in a challenging environment.
If you're curious about North Korean culture, traditional preservation techniques, or how people thrive with limited resources, this video will give you a rare glimpse into a world few ever see.
20 FOODS THE NORTH KOREANS STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZch-VLmzqU
https://www.youtube.com/@AsianSolutions
- maslin (mixed grain bread. Possible forerunner to modern multi-grain bread?), trenchers (maslin bread used as plate), stockfish (frozen/preserved cod), frumenty (cracked wheat boiled in milk or broth with spices, meats, fruit, etc...), pease porridge (peas cooked pepetually with water and other leftover ingridients), herring/fish pie, fava bean stew/porridge, rye bread, stinging nettles, oats cakes are perfect for wet conditions, eels, turnips, barley extremely hardy, garbage (offal and other food waste/scraps),
Life in the Middle Ages wasn't easy. For most peasants, food had to be cheap, filling, and made from whatever was available. Fancy ingredients were rare, but simple dishes kept millions of people alive through long winters, poor harvests, and hard labor.
In this video, we explore 15 humble meals medieval peasants relied on — made from grains, vegetables, and preserved foods that could stretch for days.
You'll Discover:
The simple soups and stews that formed the backbone of peasant diets
Cheap grains and breads that provided most daily calories
How people stretched small amounts of food to feed entire families
Preservation methods that made food last through winter
Why these dishes were simple… but surprisingly effective
No luxury ingredients. No modern kitchens. Just practical food that kept people going during hard times.
Hard Times Meals 15 Dishes That Kept Medieval Peasants Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305BKLNT9Qo
https://www.youtube.com/@MedievalTimesDiscovered
What Was Maslin? The Medieval Baker's Famine Proof Bread You've Never Heard Of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzLAZB2EfWA
https://www.youtube.com/@MedievalWay
- you don't need yeast to make risen bread. You can use sourdough starter (which creates gas as a byproduct of metabolism)? potato skin water + flour + water = sourdough starter. Sourdough starter maintenance = discard half of starter and then add equal parts water and flour. Sourdough starter + water + flour + salt + baking = sourdough bread
Stop Buying Yeast — The Potato Water Starter That Bakes Bread Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cig7s5ArV74
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourdough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Griffith%27s_sourdough_starter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-ferment
- there are heaps of wild berry and fruit bushes out there?
Discover 20 tiny berry bushes and fruiting shrubs that produce more food per square foot than fruit trees. In this video, we break down the most productive edible shrubs for homesteads, food forests, backyard gardens, and self-sufficient properties — from aronia, honeyberry, black currant, red currant, gooseberry, and jostaberry to elderberry, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, goumi berry, sea buckthorn, serviceberry, salmonberry, lingonberry, barberry, highbush cranberry, and maqui berry.
If you want to grow more food in less space, these high-yield berry bushes are some of the best plants you can add to your property. Many of these shrubs start producing years before fruit trees, require less maintenance, tolerate poor soil, survive harsh winters, and deliver massive harvests of nutrient-dense fruit. Whether you're building a productive homestead, designing a permaculture food forest, or just trying to create a more resilient backyard garden, these plants can completely change how you think about food production.
In this video, you'll learn which small fruiting shrubs are best for cold climates, shade, wet soil, drought tolerance, antioxidant-rich harvests, medicinal uses, jam-making, preserving, and long-term self-sufficiency. We cover powerhouse plants like black currant, honeyberry, elderberry, gooseberry, sea buckthorn, and maqui berry, along with overlooked backyard crops that most gardeners never think to plant.
These are the kinds of plants that fed families before grocery stores, helped communities survive hard winters, and still outperform many popular fruit trees today. From fast-bearing bushes to superfruit shrubs packed with vitamins, antioxidants, and productivity, this list is built for serious growers who want maximum return from every square foot.
Whether you're into homesteading, gardening, permaculture, survival gardening, food security, self-reliance, off-grid living, edible landscaping, or backyard farming, this video is for you.
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20 Tiny Bushes That Produce 10X MORE Food Than Fruit Trees!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PPL7WfAYE
https://www.youtube.com/@homesteadrootss
- stinging nettle is considered a weed now but was once eaten and used for milk?
Thank you for watching and expanding your knowledge with us! Subscribe to uncover more forgotten truths about the natural world.
What If The Most Nutritious Plant On Earth Was Growing In Your Backyard Right Now?
For centuries this plant fed entire populations through famines, wars, and harsh winters. Monks cultivated it in medieval gardens. Military physicians used it to heal wounded soldiers. Yet today most people rip it out and throw it away without a second thought. This video reveals the forgotten history of a common weed that contains more calcium than milk, more protein than most vegetables, and a complete amino acid profile that rivals meat. You will learn why agricultural industries buried this knowledge and how you can reclaim it for yourself. By the end you will never look at your backyard the same way again.
Modern laboratory analysis confirms what traditional healers knew for generations. Peer reviewed studies from major universities measured mineral concentrations that seem impossible for a wild plant. Researchers documented calcium levels nearly four times higher than dairy products with superior absorption rates in human digestion. Protein content approaches levels found in soybeans while providing all nine essential amino acids. The vitamin K concentration exceeds daily requirements in a single serving. This video connects ancient wisdom with contemporary science to explain why evolution created such a nutritional powerhouse and why commercial agriculture had no incentive to tell you about it.
Resources For Further Reading
Rutto et al. Mineral Properties and Dietary Value of Raw and Processed Stinging Nettle. HortScience. 2013.
Upton R. Stinging Nettles Leaf. American Herbal Pharmacopoeia Monograph. 2013.
Adhikari et al. Protein Quality of Nettle Leaves. Food Chemistry. 2016.
Rafajlovska et al. Amino Acid Composition of Urtica dioica. Journal of Nutrition. 2013.
Greger and Landberg. Heavy Metal Accumulation in Urtica dioica. Environmental Pollution. 2015.
Vogl and Hartl. Production Systems for Stinging Nettle. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture. 2003.
Di Virgilio et al. Agronomic Potential of Nettle. Industrial Crops and Products. 2015.
Davis et al. Changes in USDA Food Composition Data. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2004.
Gerard J. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. 1597.
USDA FoodData Central. Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.
300% More Calcium Than Milk. Grows Like a Weed. Why Did We Forget It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqLtyEEQt7U
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtica_dioica
- watercress is another food that has largely been forgotten. That said, easy to grow and nutrient dense
Imagine transforming a handful of dry seeds into a living superfood that multiplies its own vitamin and antioxidant levels in just days, all inside a simple glass jar. For millennia, civilizations relied on this ancient protein source to heal and nourish, yet modern food industries have quietly erased it from our Western kitchens. Discover the five-minute setup that turns any countertop into an endless supply of fresh, space-grade nutrition without needing a garden, soil, or even sunlight.
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📚 Sources & References
• Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry - 2012 study by Cornell University and Fudan University on the nutritional changes during mung bean germination.
• Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Medical research on the protective properties of mung bean coat extracts.
• 2021 Space Station Payload & Simulated Space Radiation Studies - Italian and NASA-associated research testing mung bean sprouts' resistance to X-ray radiation and microgravity.
Grow Unlimited Fresh Herbs In A Trash Can. No Soil. No Sunlight. The 5 Min Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8JhxhIjq0k
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
What if the most nutritious plant on Earth wasn't exotic… but forgotten?
In 2014, the CDC ranked 47 fruits and vegetables using 17 nutritional metrics per 100 calories.
The result shocked scientists — and the food industry.
🥇 One plant scored a perfect 100/100.
Not kale. Not spinach. Not blueberries.
👉 Watercress.
In this documentary-style deep dive, we uncover:
Why watercress ranked #1 in the CDC's most rigorous nutrition study
How it once fed Victorian London as the "poor man's bread"
Why it vanished from supermarkets despite being the most nutrient-dense plant on Earth
The hidden role of logistics, shelf life, and food systems in erasing real nutrition
How iceberg lettuce replaced watercress — and what we lost in the process
How to find, store, eat, and grow watercress today
This isn't just about a leaf.
It's about how modern systems optimize for convenience over nourishment — and how ancient wisdom quietly knew better.
The Most Nutritious Plant on Earth — Confirmed by the CDC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ckIatmECB4
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGreenArchive-1
- lots of sugar alternatives but much of the world doesn't seem aware?
Grow Infinite Sugar At Home. Zero Processing. Why Did We Forget How?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oshpFNAY3mY
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steviol_glycoside
This Weed Makes "Honey" Without Bees. Tastes Identical. 10 Min Setup — Why Don't They Sell It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKv9LiQlXg
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires
Better Than Sugar. 300x Sweeter. Grows On A Vine — Why Don't You Know It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtIPZHtpfbw
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio
Siraitia grosvenorii, also known as monkfruit, luo han guo (Chinese: 羅漢果; pinyin: luóhàn guǒ), or Swingle fruit, is a herbaceous perennial vine of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is native to southern China. The plant is cultivated for its fruit extract containing mogrosides. Mogroside extract has been used as a low-calorie sugar substitute for drinks and in traditional Chinese medicine. One mogroside, mogroside V, creates a sweetness sensation 250 times stronger than sucrose.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraitia_grosvenorii
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane
- humans have had comically bad experiences with managing invasive species? They've resorted to biological warfare, kinetic weapons, etc... against animals to manage them. Rabbits, mice, emus, camels, sea urchin, red fox, cats, cane toads. ~3K invasive species in Australia alone? Better if they were to experiment in controlled spaces like biospheres, lakes, buildings, greenhouses, etc...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-15/queensland-researchers-world-first-speed-breeding-crops/10894466
Inside Biosphere 2: The World's Largest Earth Science Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yAcD3wuY2Q
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodStuff
human biosphere project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/biosphere/
https://www.internetgeography.net/topics/humans-and-the-biosphere/
Are Earthship Homes The Future Of Sustainable Housing? | Homemade | Abode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1xFY_3zT4
https://www.youtube.com/@AbodeLDS
Why Don't They Eat Billions of Animals in Australia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py1j8KSo6Ng
https://www.youtube.com/@WATOP_VIDEO
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/12/from-turtles-to-fruit-bats-migratory-species-increasingly-under-threat-says-un
- alternatives to flour/wheat...
Better Than Wheat. One Tree = 80 Years Of Flour. Grows Anywhere — Why Is It Hidden?
One tree. Plant it once. Feed your family for 50 to 80 years. No plowing. No replanting. No pesticides. No irrigation after establishment.
That tree is Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) — and it's been hiding in plain sight while the world spends $161 billion every year on wheat.
A single mature breadfruit tree produces 50 to 700 fruits per year — confirmed by USDA Forest Service research. Each fruit weighs up to 6 kg. The fruit can be dried and ground into flour that is naturally gluten-free, lower glycemic index than wheat and rice (PMC 2023), higher in potassium, rich in vitamin C, and easier to digest than wheat protein — confirmed by a PLOS ONE peer-reviewed study (2020).
Breadfruit flour provides calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus — minerals almost entirely absent from refined white wheat flour. One cup delivers 71% of your daily vitamin C and 39% of your daily fiber. Wheat flour delivers almost zero of either.
The history is extraordinary. Pacific Island civilizations built their entire food security around a single breadfruit tree per family for 3,000 years. Captain James Cook documented it in 1769. Captain William Bligh made his famous voyage — the Mutiny on the Bounty — specifically to transport breadfruit trees to the Caribbean to feed enslaved workers. Even the British Empire recognized that one breadfruit tree could replace an entire wheat farm.
Better Than Wheat. One Tree = 80 Years Of Flour. Grows Anywhere — Why Is It Hidden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqrOsT0k9QI
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadfruit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak
- lentils, chickpea, blackbeans, green peas, quinoa, pumpkin seeds, amaranth, hemp seeds, fava/broad beans, mung beans, moringa, alfalfa, soybeans, lupin beans, duckweed
Discover the power of plant-based protein with these 15 high-protein plants that will make you rethink your meat-based diet. From legumes to grains, and even some surprising vegetables, we'll explore the top plant sources of protein that are perfect for vegetarians, vegans, and anyone looking to reduce their meat consumption. Learn how to incorporate these protein-rich plants into your daily meals and get ready to boost your energy and overall health. Whether you're a fitness enthusiast or just looking for a healthier lifestyle, this video is for you. Get ready to skip the meat and go green with these crazy high protein plants.
Skip the meat: These 15 plants have crazy high protein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY4AZnxk7cA
https://www.youtube.com/@thecareerbotanist
- protein alternatives that grow extremely quickly? Mushrooms, water caltrop, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, soy, etc...
Grow Meat Substitute In A Basket. Harvest Every 10 Days. Smells Like Steak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffcev7r9LLg
https://www.youtube.com/@GardenExplainedHarry/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature/videos
🍄How to Grow Mushrooms from Market Purchases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxzp7geazbw
https://www.youtube.com/@Miradasbiologicas
Pleurotus ostreatus, commonly known as the oyster mushroom,[2] grey oyster mushroom,[3] oyster fungus, hiratake, or pearl oyster mushroom, is a popular edible mushroom found in temperate and subtropical forests around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus_ostreatus
One plastic bag, damp cardboard, and five minutes are all it takes to build a protein factory in your closet that outperforms traditional farming.
This video explores the science of *Pleurotus ostreatus*, the carnivorous organism that breaks the rules of photosynthesis. While the $73 billion global mushroom market relies on this biology, few realize that the "oyster mushroom" is actually a predator that hunts nematodes with nerve gas. From saving starving populations in 1917 Germany to feeding astronauts on the ISS in 2025, discover why this fungus is the future of food.
📚 Sources & Further Reading
Science* (1984): Barron & Thorn identify Pleurotus as a carnivore.
Science Advances* (2023): Hsueh et al. identify the "nerve gas" toxin (3-octanone).
Falck, R. (1917): On the Forest Cultivation of the Oyster Mushroom (Survival biotechnology).
Nature Foods: Artificial photosynthesis and acetate-fed mushrooms (UC Riverside/Nolux).
NASA/SpaceX (2025): "Mission MushVroom" and space cultivation.
Cornell University (2025): 94% success rate for first-time growers.
Grow Unlimited Mushrooms Without Soil. No Sunlight. Harvest Every 7 Days. The 5 Min Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCiVFHINh1o
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus_ostreatus
This Forgotten Vegetable Feeds Families. Grows In Any Soil. Why Did Farmers Stop Planting It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVpQnJ1SbW8
https://www.youtube.com/@FamineFoodPlants/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@FamineFoodSecrets/videos
Tragopogon porrifolius is a species of plant commonly known as purple or common salsify, oyster plant, vegetable oyster, Jerusalem star,[3] Jack go to bed,[4] goatsbeard,[5] or simply salsify. These last two names are also applied to other species.
It grows wild in many places and is one of the most widely known species of the salsify genus, Tragopogon. It is cultivated for its ornamental flower and edible root.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragopogon_porrifolius
In this video, we explore the "Vegetable Meat" crops that the wealthy and the wise are quietly adding to their survival systems. These aren't just vegetables; they are dense, caloric powerhouses that rival beef in protein content and provide the essential fats your brain needs to function during a collapse.
We're not talking about waiting a decade for a walnut tree. We're talking about food security you can harvest this season.
Here's what we cover:
The "Water Chestnut on Steroids": Why the Water Caltrop (Bat Nut) is the ultimate perimeter defense crop.
The "Underground Walnut": A hidden tuber that tastes like coconut and has been used for thousands of years.
The Protein Myth: Why Soybeans and Peanuts actually beat beef pound-for-pound in protein density.
The "Oil King": A specific seed that produces more healthy fat per square foot than almost any other plant.
Survival Economics: Why shifting from "slow assets" (nut trees) to "fast assets" (annual proteins) is the smartest wealth move you can make right now.
Stop waiting for trees to grow. Start growing your protein now.
Grow Your Own Beef Alternative | Harvest High-Protein Crops This Season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klhSA720Ujs
https://www.youtube.com/@Sidney_Explains_Money
- soak beans for 4 hrs in warm water, put in plastic bottles, then cover. Water and drain regularly 5min at a time 3 times daily. Should be good in 4 days
Making bean sprouts at home from plastic bottles is easy - both white and plump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A6gA501ikc
https://www.youtube.com/@EYGardening
- the soil dictates taste of plants. Mix coconut coir, soil, manure to maximise taste
Every Microgreen Growing Method Explained in 14 Minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrIM8dXPm6w
https://www.youtube.com/@GrowItRight-u1s
- almost all legumes can be grown to sprouts in jars. There are companies that sell seeds that are ready to sprout at home like Mumms. Radish, alfalfa, lentils, brocolli, red radish, etc... in jar with semi-covered lid/spourting lid and 1/2 - 1/3 full of water which you drain periodically for a few days
How To Grow Sprouts at Home | 4 Super Healthy Sprouts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYbBiHoTaWc
https://www.youtube.com/@splashofgoodness
How To Grow Bean Sprouts In Plastic Cups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad5aK7XeJWM
https://www.youtube.com/@EYGardening
- lots of vines are very hard to kill and produce nutritious food ironically?
9 Vines That Feed You for LIFE (Plant Once, Harvest Forever)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOE4jyg890c
https://www.youtube.com/@Sidney_Explains_Money
- lots of food that grow in "extreme conditions"? The beautiful thing about bio-organics is that many things just go dormant rather then dying during difficult periods like plant seeds, hibernating animals, etc...
Better Than Bananas. More Protein. No Pests Ever. Grows In Freezing Cold. That's Why They Buried It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_Jq_u24X0
https://www.youtube.com/@FamineFoodPlants/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@FamineFoodSecrets/videos
Grow Unlimited Microgreens In A Trash Can. No Soil. No Sunlight. The 5 Min Setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtmrw2fxZEg
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
12 Crops That Grow In Extreme Heat - Why Modern Farming Ignores Them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JHrGxE9_gw
https://www.youtube.com/@PlantProven
Grow Endless Garlic in a Bottle. No Soil. Why Is This Hidden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUqo3wjRvQQ
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature
Discover the fruit and nut trees that can produce hundreds of pounds of food annually for 50-300+ years with minimal maintenance. From mulberries that fruit in 3 years to oak trees that produce 1,000 pounds of acorns per year for centuries, these are the crops that fed entire civilizations through famines and food shortages.
Learn which trees produce fastest, which provide maximum calories, and which survive drought conditions that kill everything else. Includes specific varieties, planting instructions, and realistic timelines for each tree.
The best time to plant these trees was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
Mulberry
-Hazelnut
-Fig
-Apple
-Carob
Chestnut
-Walnut
Oak (specifically for acorns/flour)
Plant These 8 Trees Once, Eat for 300 Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu7cqwB6TpA
https://www.youtube.com/@Sidney_Explains_Money
The Plant That Tastes Like Beef and Onions — Revered in Asia, Overlooked in the West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTC2Rm6MpSA
https://www.youtube.com/@hiddengardeningsecrets
A tree that grows 15 feet in a single year sounds almost impossible, yet one species has been doing exactly that for centuries. Known as Paulownia, or the Empress Tree, it is one of the fastest-growing hardwood trees on Earth. In just a few years it can reach harvestable size, producing lightweight timber, renewable firewood, and even helping absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
In many parts of the world this tree has been cultivated for over 3,000 years, valued for its rapid growth, durable wood, and ability to regenerate after being cut. A single harvest doesn't kill the tree. Instead, the stump sends up new shoots that grow just as quickly, allowing farmers to harvest timber and firewood again and again from the same root system.
In this video, you'll learn:
• Why Paulownia grows dramatically faster than traditional hardwood trees
• How its giant leaves drive extreme photosynthesis and rapid biomass growth
• Why the wood burns hotter than many traditional firewood species
• The historical uses of Paulownia for furniture, construction, and renewable fuel
• Why some regions restrict planting it due to concerns about invasiveness
Understanding how fast-growing trees like Paulownia work can change the way gardeners, homesteaders, and landowners think about renewable fuel, fast timber production, and regenerative land use. While the tree has incredible benefits, responsible planting and awareness of local regulations are essential.
This guide breaks down the science, history, and real-world uses of one of the most unusual trees in the world — and why it continues to spark debate among gardeners, ecologists, and forestry experts.
Perfect for gardeners, homesteaders, permaculture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in fast-growing trees, renewable firewood, carbon-absorbing plants, and sustainable forestry.
One Tree Produces Fuel, Food AND Medicine—Rockefeller Made Sure You'd Never Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2gNA99BJmQ
https://www.youtube.com/@InTheBeginningDoc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moringa_oleifera
- if you look around you'll realise that the all parts of the nutritional profile are covered by high yield plants and bushes but a lot of this information has been covered up?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_fiber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_(nutrient)
I'm never buying Mushrooms again (here's why)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ugcqTCIdMo
https://northspore.com/blogs/the-black-trumpet/martha-tent-aka-martha-tek-or-martha-technique-step-by-step-tutorial
Why I'm Never Buying Onions and Garlic Again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmIwGOkV4uY
The Most Helpful Fermentation Guide on the Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Aq8TodxHs
Why I started making my own vinegars from scratch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9nfVu9zGxk
https://www.youtube.com/@LifebyMikeG
In 1942, the US government taught 20 million families a soy-based recipe that replaced meat for $0.50 per serving. It delivered 21g of protein — nearly identical to beef — at 1/10th the cost. When the war ended, the $68B meat industry buried it. This video opens the vault.
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📊 SOURCES:
• USDA Bureau of Home Economics — "Soybeans for the Table" (1943 pamphlet)
• Cornell University Nutrition Studies (1943) — Soy vs. Animal Protein Trials
• University of Illinois Agricultural Research (1936–1944) — Soybean Nutrient Analysis
• National Livestock and Meat Board — Post-War Lobbying Records
• National School Lunch Act of 1946 — Public Law 79-396
• U.S. Surgeon General Report (1944) — Wartime Dietary Health Outcomes
• Harry W. Miller — Research on Soy Nutrition in East Asia
• American Soybean Association Historical Archives
More Protein Than Beef for $0.50 — Exposed in WWII, BANNED by 1946. They Buried It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUzbiLZ6MSo
https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivalCamping7
More Protein Than Beef, All 9 Amino Acids. Why Did One Empire Burn Every Field of It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VshW8yXlUk
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLifeVault
Can End World Hunger - So Why Is It Buried?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlB1-t7gr8Q
https://www.youtube.com/@ancestralbotanicals
- ancient militaries relied on this for health as it was high in Vitamin C
A forgotten plant that defies modern agriculture.
It contains up to thirty times more vitamin C than an orange, along with rare omega fatty acids and antioxidants, making it one of the most nutrient-dense foods most people have never heard of.
Used for centuries by ancient Greek warriors, Mongolian armies, and even Soviet space programs, this plant was once a critical source of strength, recovery, and survival under extreme conditions.
Every part of this plant is edible, it grows without chemical fertilizer, and it improves soil through natural nitrogen fixation instead of depleting it.
In a world dominated by processed food and fragile supply chains, rediscovering plants like this matters more than ever.
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More Omega Than Fish Oil. More Vitamin C Than Oranges. Why Is It Missing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qaBom-DNsI
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLifeVault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippophae
- if you examine what people eat around the world they have a tendency to favour stuff that is easy to grow? One interesting thing (for me) is that many plants out there can grow without soil, sunlight, be grown indoors, etc... That means that technically you could turn any building, warehouse, or factory into a food production area? You no longer have to be a country with agricultural class land in order to become self sufficient for food potentially? It would be interesting to see which countries could become entirely food self sufficient? I'd love to see more work into molecular or sub-molecular gastronomy? Variety of food on this planet is limited due to high market consolidation?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/saving-money-without-sacrificing-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/organised-crime-background-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/12/where-are-jobs-in-economy-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/09/wikipedia-list-data-scan-pack-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/if-only-hiring-were-so-simple-random.html
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Qatar turns to desert farming to boost food security • FRANCE 24 English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAhPn_SWUVI
https://www.youtube.com/@France24_en
https://agrico.qa/
what tubers grow in sand
what edible plants grow in desert
is growing bok choy easy
invasive species that are edible that can be grown in a bottle
1. Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
2. Chickweed (Stellaria media)
3. Wild brassica (Brassica species)
4. Wild fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
5. Wood sorrel (Oxalis)
6. Sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella)
7. Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus and relatives)
8. Nettle (Urtica urens)
9. Purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
10. Mallow (Malva species)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2016-05-12/edible-weeds-and-how-you-can-use-them/7406004
https://www.sydneywildflowernursery.com.au/edible-native-plants/
1. Basil
2. Mint
3. Chives
4. Parsley
5. Microgreens
6. Lettuce Greens
7. Spinach
8. Garlic Greens
9. Radishes
10. Thyme
11. Scallions (Green Onions)
https://homegrown-garden.com/blogs/blog/edible-indoor-plants
Stop Buying Groceries: Grow These 12 Foods Inside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW6s60d6AJs
https://www.youtube.com/@Sidney_Explains_Money
One bag of lentils, a blender, and five minutes are all it takes to brew a powerful rooting hormone that outperforms expensive commercial products.
This video explores the science of Auxins, the invisible chemical signal that commands plants to grow roots. Long before the $4 billion garden chemical industry bottled it, indigenous cultures and early scientists like Charles Darwin understood that this "growth force" was already hiding in every germinating seed.
📚 Sources & Further Reading
• Horticulturae* (2025): Efficacy of lentil-based bio-rooters vs. synthetic agents
• Darwin, C. The Power of Movement in Plants (1880)
• Went, F.W. Wuchsstoff und Wachstum* (Discovery of Auxin)
• Sibbaldia: Comparative study of willow water and synthetic auxins
• Thimann, K.V. Phytohormones
• Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Propagation techniques and historical methods
Grow Unlimited Plant Steroids In A Bucket. Doubles Every 48 Hours. The 5 Min Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbG_DaeiTX0
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
In this video we explore 8 forgotten crops from the Eastern Agricultural Complex — native food plants that once fed entire societies across North America long before European contact. Some produce more per acre than modern crops, some grow in poor soil with almost no care, and several are still classified as weeds today despite their remarkable nutritional value.
You'll learn about plants like:
• Lambsquarters (pitseed goosefoot) – a high-protein seed crop related to quinoa
• Sumpweed (marsh elder) – one of the most calorie-dense native crops ever cultivated
• Little barley and maygrass – ancient grains that filled seasonal food gaps
• Erect knotweed – a lost crop that once outperformed buckwheat
• Native sunflowers and squash – some of the earliest domesticated crops in North America
• Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke) – a perennial root crop that can produce massive yields
These plants were part of a sophisticated Indigenous farming system that existed thousands of years before modern agriculture arrived.
8 Plants You're Pulling Out of Your Garden That Used to Feed America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiDAPKszCq4
https://www.youtube.com/@Sidney_Explains_Money
Unbelievable - Here's How to Grow Mushrooms in a Bowl at Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAH8iHECTk8
Growing green onions in plastic cups- Unique onion growing tips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpXa5juIhc
Potato Tower - I Wish I Knew This Potato Growing Trick Sooner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9QLH0FyZo
https://www.youtube.com/@EYGardening/videos
Growing Potatoes in Towers - Small Space Potato Planters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R833pkaDBSY
https://www.youtube.com/@Wilderstead
2 Square Feet Feeds a Family! Amish Potato Secret Revealed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NomBG5uQA8Q
https://www.youtube.com/@gardeningathome5915
https://www.youtube.com/@Liap/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@skygarden4653/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@EYGardening/videos
Sophie's New Desert Garden | Discovery | Gardening Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uchk-Ws0AP0
https://www.youtube.com/@GardeningAustralia
Grow Unlimited Fresh Herbs In A Trash Can. No Soil. No Sunlight. The 5 Min Setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8JhxhIjq0k
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
Grow Meat Substitute In A Basket. Harvest Every 10 Days. Smells Like Steak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffcev7r9LLg&t=307s
https://www.youtube.com/@GardenExplainedHarry/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature/videos
They Banned the Fish That Could End World Hunger. Here's Why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9AXWerlRc
https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenRootsOfficial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics
Grow Unlimited Protein + Energy In A Trash Can. No Soil. No Sunlight. [FULL DOCUMENTARY]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwIWaNaynXY
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@GreenHavenVault/videos
How America's Farms Became Inferior To Europe's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKudMpBGC-E
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessExplainsTheWorld
Grow Potatoes In A Paper Bag. No Garden. The 5 Min Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrkOClhA0OE
https://www.youtube.com/@GardenExplainedHarry/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature/videos
This Berry REFUSES To Grow In Sunlight. Produces 15lbs Per Bush. Why Don't They Sell It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFQAEMhh9Yk
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcurrant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar
which fruits are considered weeds
https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/weeds/weeds-information
https://www.selfsufficientculture.com/ams/a-beginners-guide-to-edible-weeds.26/
Amaranth
Bittercress (Shotweed)
Burdock
Chickweed
Chicory
Cress
Curly Dock
Dandelion
Galinsoga
Garlic mustard
Lamb's-quarters
Pigweed
Plantain
Purslane
Sheep sorrel
Shepherd's purse
Stinging Nettles
Violets and Viola
Wild Garlic
Wood Sorrel
https://www.almanac.com/edible-weeds-garden-eating-weeds
A glass jar.
A handful of dried beans.
Tap water.
Five minutes of setup.
Three days later, you're holding a living food source with 6× the antioxidants, nearly 4× the folate, and a 27-fold surge in Vitamin C.
Not a supplement.
Not a lab product.
Just mung bean sprouts.
From ancient India 4,000 years ago to NASA experiments on the ISS in 2021, this tiny seed has proven to be one of the most powerful self-sustaining nutrition systems on Earth.
In this video, you'll learn what truly happens inside a sprouting bean — and how to turn any jar into your own living protein factory in just five minutes.
Welcome back to Veiled Harvest.
Grow Unlimited Protein In A Trash Can. No Soil. No Sunlight. The 5 Min Setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tvwepeYg94
https://www.youtube.com/@VeiledHarvest
Imagine transforming a handful of dry seeds into a living superfood that multiplies its own vitamin and antioxidant levels in just days, all inside a simple glass jar. For millennia, civilizations relied on this ancient protein source to heal and nourish, yet modern food industries have quietly erased it from our Western kitchens. Discover the five-minute setup that turns any countertop into an endless supply of fresh, space-grade nutrition without needing a garden, soil, or even sunlight.
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📚 Sources & References
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry – 2012 study by Cornell University and Fudan University on the nutritional changes during mung bean germination.
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine – Medical research on the protective properties of mung bean coat extracts.
2021 Space Station Payload & Simulated Space Radiation Studies – Italian and NASA-associated research testing mung bean sprouts' resistance to X-ray radiation and microgravity.
Grow Unlimited Protein In A Trash Can. No Soil. No Sunlight. The 5 Min Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8DbA4rcnw
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
How to Easily and Effectively Grow Mung Bean Sprouts in a Fruit Bag!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMWKt3kIxyA
https://www.youtube.com/@topdiy707
Perfect Bean Sprouts in 3 Days – Easy Vietnamese Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxosqaMxbmM
https://www.youtube.com/@vuonvietocanada
Grow Unlimited Protein In A Bucket. Doubles Every 48 Hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-qwNmdtgJ4
https://www.youtube.com/@SilverGarden1
Sweet As Sugar. The 'Emperor's Root' That Feeds You For 10 Years. (Extinct in Stores)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdebl4MLmYg
https://www.youtube.com/@ReclaimedNature
Grow Unlimited Protein In A Cardboard. Harvest Every 7 Days. The 5 Minute Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI7jXGnlR-Y
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
450 Lbs of Food Per Year, Zero Effort: Why they weaponized this Slave Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otEVIRG0_Kw
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
How Ancient Chinese Navy Preserved Meat Onboard Treasure Ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1wZB_ZROd4
https://www.youtube.com/@SilkRoadDiaries25
More Antioxidants Than Any Berry. Survives Anything. Why is This Japanese Plant Hated?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRoK6gg7ipI
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature
which beans only need only fresh water to grow
https://www.iamcountryside.com/growing/growing-tepary-beans/
https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/2016/02/08/what-kind-of-green-beans-should-you-grow/
The Longest-Living People on Earth Eat This Plant Daily. It's Illegal to Sell in America
There is an island in Japan where one in ten residents lives past 100. They eat a plant every single day that most Americans have never heard of. It contains a compound found in no other food on Earth, one that triggers the same cellular cleanup process as fasting. Western scientists confirmed it in 2016. So why can't you buy it fresh in any American grocery store? The answer will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about food, regulation, and who decides what you're allowed to access.
The Longest-Living People on Earth Eat This Plant Daily. It's Illegal to Sell in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch-P-aUabQY
https://www.youtube.com/@LostPlantRemedies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashitaba
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1134/ashitaba#sideeffects
A forgotten fruit with up to ten times the vitamin C of an orange is quietly growing in the American Southwest.
Why did one of the most nutrient dense fruits in the world disappear from modern agriculture?
This documentary explores the jujube, an ancient crop cultivated for over four thousand years, biologically unique for increasing its vitamin C as it ripens and for thriving in extreme heat and drought.
Biologically unique: vitamin C rises as it ripens
Nutrient advantage: up to 400–600 mg vitamin C per 100g
Lost to funding cuts and shifting food markets
Rediscovered for climate-resilient agriculture
If you've searched for climate-resilient fruit trees for hot dry climates, ancient superfoods backed by science, or regenerative agriculture crops for the Southwest.
Sweeter Than Honey. Better Than A Forest Of Blueberries. Survived A Century Of Neglect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUh1ShIeWZs
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLifeVault
One plastic bag, damp cardboard, and five minutes are all it takes to build a protein factory in your closet that outperforms traditional farming.
This video explores the science of *Pleurotus ostreatus*, the carnivorous organism that breaks the rules of photosynthesis. While the $73 billion global mushroom market relies on this biology, few realize that the "oyster mushroom" is actually a predator that hunts nematodes with nerve gas. From saving starving populations in 1917 Germany to feeding astronauts on the ISS in 2025, discover why this fungus is the future of food.
📚 Sources & Further Reading
Science* (1984): Barron & Thorn identify Pleurotus as a carnivore.
Science Advances* (2023): Hsueh et al. identify the "nerve gas" toxin (3-octanone).
Falck, R. (1917): On the Forest Cultivation of the Oyster Mushroom (Survival biotechnology).
Nature Foods: Artificial photosynthesis and acetate-fed mushrooms (UC Riverside/Nolux).
NASA/SpaceX (2025): "Mission MushVroom" and space cultivation.
Cornell University (2025): 94% success rate for first-time growers.
Grow Unlimited Mushrooms Without Soil. No Sunlight. Harvest Every 7 Days. The 5 Min Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCiVFHINh1o
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus_ostreatus
The Plant That Grows Without Water for Weeks - Why Big Agriculture Ignored It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Symrfc2-Y
https://www.youtube.com/@AncientFoodFiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_acutifolius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bean
Grow Unlimited Vegetables in a Bucket. No Soil. No Garden. The 10-Minute Setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owr24P_CfsY
https://www.youtube.com/@LivingSelfSufficiently
Grow a Year of Vegetables in 2 Trash Cans — The Depression Era Trick They Buried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vh-QHTqJaE
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGardenOfWisdoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebers_Papyrus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shennong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta_Samhita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas
which edible plants don't need soil
https://www.hoselink.com.au/blogs/gardening/15-edible-plants-to-grow-in-the-shade
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-16/growing-vegetables-herbs-without-a-garden/9745752
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-18/growing-new-veggies-from-scraps/12128496
How to Grow Mushrooms in a Cardboard Box (Zero Skills Needed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2_DsDRR3oY
https://www.youtube.com/@GrowVeg
- it feels like our lives made artificially difficult because those above us are trying to maximise profit generation? The tragedy of most ideologies, religions, etc... on Earth is that they don't solve the problems they claim to want to solve. Without dealing with this issue suffering can not end? Ironically, lots of mathematicians, philosophers, academics, etc... claim to work on proofs and logic but they won't want to touch at the most pressing logical problems at hand?
This Grain Has More Fiber Than Oats Or Wheat. Gladiators Lived On It. Now Pigs Eat It. Why?
Somewhere between Ancient Rome and your local grocery store — the world's most powerful grain completely vanished from your plate.
It has more fiber than oats. It has more fiber than wheat. It contains a compound so powerful that Harvard Medical School calls it one of the most important nutrients for your heart.
Roman gladiators — the most feared athletes in human history — ate this grain every single day. They were literally nicknamed "THE BARLEY MEN."
Ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramids on it. Mesopotamians used it as money. Greek Olympians trained on it. Roman legions conquered the world eating it.
And today?
Your pig eats it. You don't.
In this video, we uncover the full shocking story of BARLEY — the forgotten grain that built civilizations, fueled warriors, and got quietly stolen from your dinner table — and why the modern food industry made absolutely sure you forgot it existed.
This Grain Has 3x More Fiber Than Oats. Japan Drinks It Every Day. America Throws It To Pigs. Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npLbNdo-HMs
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio/videos
Africa's Oldest Grain Fed Kings for 7,000 Years. Europe Called It Hungry Rice.
Fonio is West Africa's oldest grain — cultivated for 7,000 years, naturally gluten-free, and packed with the two essential amino acids missing from wheat, rice, and maize. It grows on sandy, rocky soils where other cereals die, matures in as little as 42 days, and cooks in five minutes. European colonizers renamed it "hungry rice." The Dogon people of Mali called it the seed of the universe.
This video covers the full story:
its 7,000-year history as the food of West African royalty and sacred ceremonies
higher calcium content than any other grain on Earth, according to the FAO
methionine and cysteine amino acid profile missing from every major global cereal
growth on acid, sandy, and depleted soils with zero chemical inputs
how the colonial "hungry rice" label erased its actual cultural status
only 19 scientific papers published in 20 years despite feeding millions
how the Green Revolution promoted imported staples while fonio received nothing
why a bag now sells for $18 in New York while West African farmers still process by hand
the EU classifying a 7,000-year-old crop as "Novel Food" in 2018
Today fonio is sold in Whole Foods and covered as a climate superfood — while the women farmers who kept it alive for millennia are still waiting for the infrastructure investment that rice and wheat received decades ago.
#Fonio #WestAfrica #ForgottenGrain #AncientGrains #AfricanSuperCrop #FoodHistory #NeglectedCrops #GlutenFree #SustainableFarming #IndigenousKnowledge #FoodSecurity #ClimateResilientCrops #AfricanAgriculture
Africa's Oldest Grain Fed Kings for 7,000 Years. Europe Called It Hungry Rice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCFAkUE5ZtI
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOriginPlate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonio
For thousands of years, one tree fed entire civilizations through brutal winters — dropping billions of pounds of nutrient-dense food directly onto the ground, for free, with zero farming required. Unlike modern wheat, which demands constant plowing, toxic fertilizers, and massive diesel tractors, this tree is a permanent, drought-proof engine that produces complex carbohydrates and healthy fats year after year without any input. That tree is the Oak, and its acorns were the ultimate survival calorie of the ancient world — a gluten-free superfood that sustained Native Americans and early European settlers alike. But the industrial agriculture monopoly abandoned it because acorns require a simple water-leaching process that couldn't be monetized on a factory assembly line. Today, while grocery store bread prices soar, millions of pounds of a vastly superior free flour are literally rotting in our driveways. In this video, we break down the science of acorn nutrition and why the food industry trained us to rake our best survival food into the trash.
This Tree Drops 'Free Bread'. Outperforms Wheat. Why Do We Rake It Into The Trash?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XniDNI0Lt4
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
How to Make Flour Without a Store From Things Around You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HT9vPZT6uQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@GardenSageHD/videos
- so much food you buy is so easily grown but much of it is actually banned?
The USDA classified this plant as a Federal Noxious Weed and banned it across multiple states—not because it's toxic, but because it produces food too efficiently. Water Spinach grows up to four inches per day in nothing but a five-gallon bucket of mud and water, allowing a fresh harvest every three to four days from a single container. In Asian cuisine, it's a premium vegetable: hollow, crunchy stems that absorb flavor, packed with vitamins A and C and iron. The government's concern isn't your health—the plant is completely safe to eat—it's that Water Spinach grows so aggressively it would choke American waterways if it escaped cultivation. A biological machine that turns sunlight and water into unlimited food, outlawed because the ecosystem can't compete with it.
Grow Unlimited Food In A Bucket. Harvest Every 4 Days. Why Is This Illegal in the US?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyxmDIQFB-U
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_aquatica
This Grain Grows In 30 Days. More Iron Than Spinach. Why Did Africa Keep It Secret?
Africa didn't keep it secret. The West just never bothered to look.
Fonio (Digitaria exilis) — a tiny ancient grain from West Africa — has been feeding civilizations for over 5,000 years. It grows in the harshest soil, needs zero irrigation, survives drought, and is harvest-ready in just 30 days.
And the nutrition? A single serving delivers iron levels higher than sorghum and wheat — confirmed by ResearchGate 2014. It's gluten-free, low glycemic index, rich in methionine and cysteine — the two essential amino acids completely missing from wheat, rice, and corn.
Meanwhile, teff — Ethiopia's ancient grain — contains up to 86.5 mg of iron per 100g in its most nutrient-dense varieties, according to PMC 2023. One cup of cooked teff delivers 123% of daily iron needs. That's not a supplement. That's breakfast.
So why don't we know it?
Because the global wheat market is worth $200 billion per year. The rice market — another $300 billion. These industries have controlled agricultural research funding, government subsidies, and food aid programs for 60 years. Fonio was literally labeled "hungry rice" by Western researchers — a dismissive term designed to signal poverty, not potential.
Ethiopia banned teff exports in 2006 to protect its own food security after Western demand started pricing locals out of their own staple food.
Fonio grows where wheat cannot survive. It needs no chemicals. No irrigation. No 90-day growing window. Just poor soil, rain, and 30 days.
Bill Gates called it one of the most important grains on earth in 2022. Scientists agree. Grocery stores haven't caught up yet — because catching up would mean competing with a $200B wheat industry that has spent decades making sure you never heard of fonio.
Sources: ResearchGate 2014 — Fonio mineral content vs sorghum & wheat | PMC 2023 — Teff iron 86.5mg/100g | CNN 2015 — Ethiopia teff export ban | The Guardian 2022 — Fonio food security | Gates Notes 2022 — Ancient grains nutrition | Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2020 — African crop contributions
This Grain Grows In 30 Days. More Iron Than Spinach. Why Did Africa Keep It Secret?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pve5myCHyOg
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teff
- potatoes
NEVER Throw Them Away! 25 Kitchen Scraps Grandma Used to Regrow Into FREE Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP_x41ixb7w
https://www.youtube.com/@NoLongerHere-001
Discover the effective method of growing potatoes in towers, especially using the milk crate technique, which makes potato harvest easier and more abundant. This approach to growing potatoes simplifies management and increases yields, making it ideal for any vegetable gardening enthusiast. Learn practical gardening tips for vertical gardening to maximize your space and enjoy a successful crop.
I Grew 300 Pounds of Potatoes in 10 Sq Ft (No Joke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNhX3DyRUec
https://www.youtube.com/@Sidney_Explains_Money
I Grew Potatoes in Supermarket Paper Bags — Here's What Happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxSRVlZ-Mg
https://www.youtube.com/@Selfsufficientme
- if we redistribute/decentralise food production we have more control over pricing and efficiency especially?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/organised-crime-background-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
What Happens If We All Start Growing Our Own Food?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATFEv9FdTx0
Let's Garden Like It's 1943, When We Grew 40% Of Our Own Food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlaUtaOzMW8
What Killed Vertical Farming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HirEOfIclaQ
Why Hydroponics Outperforms Soil EVERYTIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNvsDU2gTm8
Hydroponics 101 | A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO EVERYTHING YOU NEED AND NEED TO KNOW TO GROW PLANTS IN WATER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EklopLQqyk
https://www.youtube.com/@humblegrowth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroponics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics
How this NASA Secret Could Turn Your Backyard Into $10K/Month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHMvDy0_MhA
https://www.youtube.com/@UpFlip
https://www.facebook.com/togetherwegrowaz/
- you have to wonder if eating uni-cellular bacteria will produce tastes similar to existing spices, salt, pepper, etc? Suspect it has a grainy taste so interpolate it with other cells to produce texture? Growth rate of bacteria is incredible so can produce what you want very fast. Interpolate enough times and you can turn it into fruit, vegetables, fake meat?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
fastest growing edible bacteria
Vibrio natriegens as a fast-growing host for molecular biology
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27571549/
But one is even faster: Vibrio natriegens is the bacterium with the fastest known growth rate. It can duplicate in less than 10 minutes. This makes Vibrio natriegens interesting not only for biotechnological applications, but also as a model for basic research.
https://www.mpg.de/21897436/cell-division-at-record-speed
how fast does chlorella grow
MAXIMUM GROWTH RATES OF CHLORELLA IN STEADY-STATE AND IN SYNCHRONIZED CULTURES*t
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.45.12.1740
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Growth-of-Chlorella-vulgaris-cells-for-7-days_fig2_323312330
Grow More Protein Than Beef. Zero Soil. The 5 Minute Window Box Method.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFnfe2tHm1I
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organs_of_the_human_body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_(biology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation
bacteria which taste sweet
bacteria which taste sour
https://homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/sour-microbes-yeast-and-bacteria-explained/
https://beersmith.com/blog/2012/08/12/sour-off-flavors-in-home-brewed-beer/
are halophiles edible
The fermentation of salty foods (such as soy sauce, Chinese fermented beans, salted cod, salted anchovies, sauerkraut, etc.) often involves halophiles as either essential ingredients or accidental contaminants. One example is Chromohalobacter beijerinckii, found in salted beans preserved in brine and in salted herring. Tetragenococcus halophilus is found in salted anchovies and soy sauce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halophile
are there any bacteria that produce acetic acid
Acetic acid bacteria (AAB) are a group of Gram-negative bacteria that oxidize sugars or ethanol and produce acetic acid during fermentation.[1] The acetic acid bacteria consist of 10 genera in the family Acetobacteraceae.[1] Several species of acetic acid bacteria are used in industry for production of certain foods and chemicals.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic_acid_bacteria
are there any bacteria that produce sugar
Breakthrough in tagatose production
Now, in a study published in Cell Reports Physical Science, Tufts researchers have developed a way to biosynthetically produce an otherwise rare sugar called tagatose, which could very well provide the sweetness and natural taste of table sugar without its potential harms. It might even provide some health benefits.
Tagatose occurs naturally in only very small amounts compared to common sugars like glucose, fructose, or sucrose. It can be found in milk and other dairy products when lactose is broken down by heat or enzymes, such as might be found in the production of yogurt, cheese, and kefir.
Some fruits like apples, pineapples, and oranges contain trace levels of tagatose as part of their natural carbohydrate spectrum. Since tagatose is typically less than 0.2% of sugars found in natural sources, it is usually manufactured, not extracted, for consumption.
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-healthier-sugar-substitute-bacteria-yield.html
https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/researchers-at-harvards-wyss-institute-develop-technology-to-produce-sugar-from-photosynthetic-bacteria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackfruit

Endless Food Storage:

- an interesting thing about the US/West is it's high dependence on processed food which often often have a high/long extended shelf life (via preservatives)? If poorer countries just focused themselves on trying to make the most of what they have (via preservation) I suspect it would help a lot?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
how much food in supermarket uses preservatives
Stats Snapshot: Preservatives in Australia (2025)
📊 Over 75% of packaged foods in Australia use some form of preservative.
🧪 Around 60 food preservatives are currently approved by FSANZ.
👨🍳 Small businesses are now the fastest-growing users of commercial-grade preservatives.
https://dextrodelight.com.au/news/what-are-preservatives-in-food/
Think you know how to navigate the grocery store to purchase healthy foods for you and your family? You might be surprised by the findings of this new study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. They discovered that 76.9% of US grocery store food purchases are processed, and over 61% of those purchases are highly processed!
https://www.integrativenutrition.com/blog/over-75-of-us-supermarket-food-purchases-are-processed
31 Foods To STOCKPILE That NEVER EXPIRE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0uctNqpWes
https://www.youtube.com/@FoodFearFactor
- store food in extreme conditions areas like very low temperature and high temperature regions of the world as they become natural fridges and dryers/demumidifiers?
How Vikings Kept Fish Fresh for Years?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DzqQNKI9hr4
https://www.youtube.com/@ancient-techie/shorts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish
Pumpkin hardtack, survival food, Civil War recipe — 5-year shelf life, no refrigerator, 2 ingredients, zero chemicals. This forgotten technique kept soldiers alive when there was nothing left on the shelves. The same cracker sitting in a Pensacola museum since 1862 — still edible today.
In this video I'm showing the full technology of pumpkin hardtack from scratch. Two ingredients. One batch equals 6 portions of dense, nutritious survival food that sits on your shelf for 5 years without a fridge, freezer, or electricity. No cans, no preservatives, no additives. Just pumpkin and flour — and a drying method that actually works.
I'll walk you through every step — why pumpkin beats any store-bought flour for long-term nutrition, why zero fat in the dough is the rule that makes it last, how to double-bake it so the center is completely dry, and exactly how to wrap and store it to get the full 5-year shelf life. Miss one step and it goes moldy in a month.
At the end I break down the nutrition — beta-carotene, Vitamin A, potassium, magnesium, and fiber. The exact nutrients your body loses first under stress and limited food supply. This is not empty calories. This is concentrated nutrition the size of a cracker.
This is not a trendy recipe. This is a system. Two hours of work gives you a jar of real food that waits on your shelf for 5 years — no freezer, no fridge, no electricity needed. Want it to last 25 years? Vacuum seal it.
If we hit 500 likes I'll film the next survival recipe from the archives — something even older than this.
Make This HARDTACK Before Shelves Go Empty. 2 Ingredients. 5-Year Shelf Life. No Fridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PiG8sheAA
https://www.youtube.com/@1930sSurvivalKitchen
25 Genius British Grandma Tricks to Make Fresh Groceries Last 10x Longer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgBYdXUfipc
https://www.youtube.com/@onceuponabritishtime
Why Chinese Farmers Bury Cabbage Underground for Winter Survival! #cabbagepreservation #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CEfKvnMvS3U
https://www.youtube.com/@JasFarm68/shorts
https://www.youtube.com/@JasFarm68/videos
- one interesting thing for me is that the US/Western world often relies on chemical preservatives but other parts of the world often depend on drying, salting, fermentation, pickling/acidification, heating/pasteurisation, etc... Just look around your supermarket next time you're in there and it's pretty interesting when you think about it?
Chapters & Preservation Methods
00:00 | Introduction - Why ancient preservation matters, and why it still works better than you think.
00:39 | Fermentation - Transform vegetables, dairy, and grains into long-lasting probiotics using just salt and time.
03:09 | Salt Curing - Preserve meat and fish for months using this age-old dehydration and microbial control technique.
05:17 | Root Cellaring - Store entire harvests of potatoes, carrots, beets, and more with no electricity.
07:56 | Smoking - Use cold or hot smoke to add flavor and extend the shelf life of meats, fish, and cheese.
10:51 | Dehydration - Remove moisture to prevent spoilage, one of the oldest and most versatile food-saving methods.
13:35 | Fat Preservation (Confit & Rillettes) - Seal cooked meat under a layer of fat to keep it shelf-stable for weeks or months.
15:47 | Vinegar Preservation (Pickling) - Use acetic acid to kill bacteria and preserve everything from cucumbers to eggs.
18:25 | Honey Preservation - Nature's only food that never spoils, great for preserving fruits and herbal medicines.
20:41 | Ash Preservation - An overlooked method for storing eggs and cheese by coating them in fine wood ash.
23:11 | Clay Pot Storage (Zeer Pots & Sealed Jars) - Use clay's natural properties to cool, store, or ferment foods without refrigeration.
25:58 | Pressure Preservation (Underground Storage) - Ancient pit preservation techniques used to press and seal foods below ground.
28:37 | Freeze Drying (Natural or Modern Methods) - Preserve texture, nutrients, and flavor using low temperatures, including snow, ice, and wind.
31:00 | Oil Preservation - Create anaerobic barriers that protect herbs, vegetables, and cheeses from spoilage.
34:16 | Spice Preservation - Use antimicrobial herbs and spices like mustard, turmeric, and clove to extend shelf life naturally.
36:51 | Sugar Preservation (Crystallizing, Syrup & Jam) - Preserve fruits and flowers using dense sugar barriers or boil them into shelf-stable jellies.
Master 15 Ancient Food Preservation Techniques at Home (No Fancy Tools Needed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUXimFUn8fc
https://www.youtube.com/@StellarEureka
PICKLING vs FERMENTING - What's the Difference? Quick Grocery Store I.D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZWEB2t8MJ8
https://www.youtube.com/@CleanFoodLiving
The Most Helpful Fermentation Guide on the Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Aq8TodxHs
The 4 Easiest Ways to Get Into Fermentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94KhDUapXbQ
https://www.youtube.com/@LifebyMikeG
How to Make Wine at Home | Small Batch Wine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Up2qFpx3K8
https://www.youtube.com/@SustainableDan
- lean beef (no fat as it goes rancid), pound it, mix salt and spices, spread on dehydrator trays, dry at 145-160 Degrees Farenheit, etc...
How To Carry 2 Months Of Meat In Your Pocket (Mongol Borts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQ-O-v68gE
https://www.youtube.com/@TheAlternatePastOfficial
MONGOLIAN BORTS| The Ultimate Dried Meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFKKgHIVaY4
https://www.youtube.com/@MongolianNomadFamily
HOW THE CHINESE PRESERVE MEAT WITHOUT REFRIGERATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kX1TBilIaY
https://www.youtube.com/@AsianSolutions
How to Preserve Meat with no Refrigeration - Biltong 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=406S_u2Dte0
https://www.youtube.com/@clayhayeshunter
HOW JAPANESE PRESERVE MEAT WITHOUT REFRIGERATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fCk3ZgZLRA
https://www.youtube.com/@AsianSolutions
- there are many groups who have mastered the art of low resource living? Heaps of them have had no choice but to make what they had stretch after realising they couldn't control the weather which impacted their food availability?
20 FOODS THE NORTH KOREANS STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE.
In a country where resourcefulness and survival are a way of life, North Koreans have mastered the art of making food last — sometimes for years, even decades. In this video, we'll uncover 20 North Korean foods that almost never expire, revealing how tradition, necessity, and ingenuity come together in one of the world's most secretive food cultures.
From fermented vegetables and salted seafood to dried grains, noodles, and pickled roots, discover how everyday ingredients are preserved using ancient Korean methods — without refrigeration or modern packaging.
These aren't just survival foods — they reflect a lifestyle built on discipline, self-sufficiency, and adaptation in a challenging environment.
If you're curious about North Korean culture, traditional preservation techniques, or how people thrive with limited resources, this video will give you a rare glimpse into a world few ever see.
20 FOODS THE NORTH KOREANS STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZch-VLmzqU
20 FOODS THE VIETNAMESE STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE.
In Vietnam, food preservation is both a tradition and a necessity, perfected through centuries of creativity and balance. In this video, we'll explore 20 Vietnamese foods that almost never expire, from everyday pantry staples to ancient techniques that keep ingredients fresh without modern refrigeration.
You'll discover how rice (gạo), fish sauce (nước mắm), salt (muối), dried shrimp (tôm khô), and fermented vegetables (dưa muối) are transformed into flavorful, long-lasting essentials through drying, curing, fermenting, and salting, methods deeply rooted in Vietnamese culture and climate.
These aren't just survival foods. They represent a way of life built on thrift, flavor, and harmony with nature.
If you're fascinated by Vietnamese cuisine, traditional cooking, or sustainable food storage, this one's going to surprise and inspire you.
20 FOODS THE VIETNAMESE STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tM-MrOmz0o
20 Canned Foods The Chinese STOCKPILE That NEVER Expire!
Canning has been part of Chinese food storage for decades, blending modern convenience with traditional preservation. In this video, we look at 20 canned foods that Chinese families stockpile, trusted to last for years and stay ready when fresh food isn't available.
You'll see how canned meats, fish, beans, vegetables, fruits, sauces, and soups fill household pantries across the country. From braised pork and pickled mustard greens to bamboo shoots and lotus seeds, each can carries flavors made to last through time and travel.
20 Canned Foods Every Chinese Stockpile in Their Survival Pantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gj_hf6Ybo
https://www.youtube.com/@AsianSolutions
HOW THE CHINESE STORE FOOD FOR 20 YEARS WITHOUT REFRIGERATION.
Could a pantry built without electricity hold food for decades? In China, traditional store-food methods let families stash grains, cured meats, and preserved veggies for long years ahead. This video explores how Chinese households and rural farms use drying, salting, fermenting, airtight clay jars, and underground cellars to keep food safe and edible—even without modern refrigeration.
You'll see how sun-dried meats, fermented legumes, sealed jars of ancient pickles, and cool subterranean pits combine with seasonal rhythms and local materials to form a food-reserve system built on patience and technique. Generations passed down these methods so that entire harvests could last through lean years.
HOW THE CHINESE STORE FOOD FOR 20 YEARS WITHOUT REFRIGERATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHoFzlIcKFk
20 FOODS THE JAPANESE STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE
Ever wondered what foods you could store forever without worrying about them going bad? 🍱
In this video, we're exploring 20 foods the Japanese stockpile that practically never expire — the secret staples that keep their pantries ready for anything. From traditional preservation methods to clever modern tricks, you'll see how Japan manages to keep food fresh, safe, and delicious for decades.
Whether you're into survival prepping, minimalist living, or just curious about Japanese culture and food traditions, this 8-minute breakdown will open your eyes to some genius long-lasting foods you've probably never heard of.
20 FOODS THE JAPANESE STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6oC06Swq0
https://www.youtube.com/@AsianSolutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
20 FOODS THE MONGOLS STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE.
Across the vast steppes of Mongolia, people have relied on preserved food for survival through long winters and endless travel. This video explores 20 Mongol foods that never expire, revealing how nomadic families have sustained themselves for centuries with simple yet powerful techniques.
You'll learn about enduring staples such as dried meat (borts), dried curds (aaruul), fermented mare's milk (airag), butter, and millet, each made to last through harsh climates and long journeys. These foods are prepared through drying, fermenting, and storing in natural conditions, reflecting both practicality and deep knowledge of the land.
20 FOODS THE MONGOLS STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezqyXHEgPRA
https://www.youtube.com/@AsianSolutions
Trying a 1934 Amish SURVIVAL JAR. Meat and rice that outlast modern MREs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzlC3pUQDOk
https://www.youtube.com/@1930sSurvivalKitchen
- never really thought about this but heaps of our food recipes was borne as ways of managing food waste? Extending out shelf life? What do you do with left overs and how to maintain it? Crushed grapes which were left to ferment led to discovery of wine and alchohol? We extend the shelf life of stuff in retail stores so that it doesn't spoil and last longer which reduces pressure on stores to purchase new food and reduces pressure on farms and factories to produce new food?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagpag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_cookie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pho
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_nugget
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_finger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_beef
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Ready-to-Eat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_coffee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf_life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convenience_food
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_car
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazpacho
Nigeria faces $3.6 billion loss from post-harvest food waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrzy2Dxx7J4
https://www.youtube.com/@cgtnafrica
how did wine come about
https://www.goodpairdays.com/guides/wine-101/article/history-of-wine/
https://colmarestate.com.au/blogs/news/who-invented-wine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wine
where did idea for vegetable and fruit slush drink come from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothie
https://www.dummies.com/article/home-auto-hobbies/food-drink/juicing-smoothies/a-brief-history-of-smoothies-142746/
how much food in africa rots at markets
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/angelaselassiebitea_cassava-is-africas-most-wasted-crop-activity-7378685036939608064-pFzb/
https://fortune.com/2026/03/09/meet-the-african-cocoa-farmers-who-are-letting-their-crops-rot-because-the-commodity-price-has-fallen-so-much/
how much food rots at markets
https://www.perthbinhire.com.au/how-much-food-is-actually-wasted-in-australia/
What's the problem?
While much of the global population goes to bed hungry, around a third of all the food that is produced around the world is either lost or wasted each year.1 That's 1.3 billion tonnes of perfectly edible food squandered annually.
Food is wasted at every point in the supply chain. Around 14 percent of the world's food (valued at $400 billion per year2) is lost after it is harvested and before it reaches retail. A further 17 percent3 - 931 million tonnes of food - ends up being wasted in retail and by consumers.
In developed nations like Australia, 40 per cent of losses happen at retail and consumer levels. Much of this food waste takes place in households.
Given the scale of the problem, cutting global food waste in half by 2030 is one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
https://www.australianethical.com.au/blog/food-waste-a-growing-australian-problem/
food rot by country
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/food-waste-by-country
https://www.ozharvest.org/food-waste-facts/
https://www.worldhunger.org/2015-world-hunger-and-poverty-facts-and-statistics/
- those with limited resources have to spend so much time making the most of what they have and it wouldn't suprise me if they were the most efficient?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/saving-money-without-sacrificing-random.html
Why Amish Gardens Never Have Weeds — The One "Cardboard" Method Big Ag Tried To Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awEs93B9XuU
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenRootsOfficial
The Amish Bread Secret. Stays Fresh 2 Weeks. They've Hidden This For 300 Years.?
Walk into any Amish farmhouse in Lancaster County today. Find bread baked 12 days ago sitting on the counter. No preservatives. No refrigeration. No plastic packaging. Still soft. Still fresh. Still perfect.
Modern commercial bread goes stale in 3 days without chemical preservatives. Wonder Bread contains 17 synthetic additives just to survive a week on supermarket shelves.
The Amish figured out natural 2-week freshness 300 years ago using nothing but flour, water, and a technique passed from mother to daughter in whispered kitchens — never written down, never shared with outsiders.
The $52 billion commercial bread industry needs you buying a new loaf every 3 days. They cannot afford for you to know this secret.
🔬 THE SCIENCE: The Amish method combines three forgotten techniques modern baking abandoned for speed and profit:
1. True Sourdough Fermentation (72 hours minimum) A 2019 study from Nature Food confirmed long-fermentation sourdough produces acetic and lactic acids that lower bread pH to 3.8-4.2 — creating a natural antimicrobial environment where mold cannot survive for 14+ days. Commercial bakeries ferment for 90 minutes (profit-driven shortcut) producing none of these protective acids.
2. Raw Lard or Tallow Fat Integration Animal fats coat gluten strands, slowing moisture migration that causes staling. University of Nebraska (2016) confirmed breads made with natural animal fats stale 4x slower than vegetable oil breads. Commercial bakeries switched to cheap vegetable shortening in 1950s — cutting fat costs by 60% while destroying shelf life naturally.
3. Scalded Flour Technique (Tangzhong) Heating 10% of flour to 150°F before mixing gelatinizes starch granules, locking moisture inside bread structure permanently. Japanese bakers rediscovered this in 1990s. Amish never forgot it. Result: bread that stays moist without a single chemical additive.
Three techniques. Combined correctly. Two weeks of freshness. Free.
The Amish Bread Secret. Stays Fresh 2 Weeks. They've Hidden This For 300 Years.?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz_v28aZ5Wo
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio
- by digging through history to desperate times we can learn of useful knowledge to help store food if there are boom/bust times in your area. The irony is that more artificial techniques have a tendency to more likely to cause you health problems?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
The Poor Man's Steak That Lasts 2 Years Without a Fridge — 1930s Survival Recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_VWjQ3Hzs
Freeze Your Soup Into Cubes and Forget About Hunger for 2 Years. Great Depression Survival Food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK1AYr4naw0
https://www.youtube.com/@1930sSurvivalKitchen
potatoes in a jar last 5 years! you will survive war and famine! canning food in jars! no chemistry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7i0pq4ITXg
money will be worth nothing! I know, I survived the war in my country! preserve food in jars!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCwzMDrXbdw
https://www.youtube.com/@kuhinjatanja
Trying a 1934 Amish SURVIVAL JAR. Meat and rice that outlast modern MREs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzlC3pUQDOk
https://www.youtube.com/@1930sSurvivalKitchen
The Inca Freeze Drying Method That Preserves Meat for 20 Years No Electricity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qann2hKAnV0
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://outdoorvault.lovable.app/ — Forbidden Camping: The Forbidden Outdoor Vault
A two dollar meal that lasts twenty years without refrigeration. Pemmican is the original survival food invented by indigenous peoples of North America, perfected over thousands of years, used by Arctic explorers and soldiers in both world wars. Today, selling it from your kitchen is illegal in most states. This video reveals the full history, the science, and the step by step recipe the freeze dried food industry does not want you to know.
This $2 Meal Lasts 20 Years. Why Is Selling It Illegal in 43 States?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_Ok1rH0dQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenCamping
- multiple techniques: cover in spice and cook and cover in fat, cover in salt and spice and then leave in fridge with reduction target of weight of ~35%% curing normally needs ~8wks,
grandma showed me how to keep meat out of the fridge all year round! like in the village!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zB2_GSQ4gY
They last 5 years in a jar! Can baby potatoes in jars, eat all year round!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIrBdKi0JQ
https://www.youtube.com/@kuhinjatanja
Curing Meat With Salt | Preserving Meat With Salt At Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C29BpsJRNg
https://www.youtube.com/@HomevertHomesteader
How smoke preserves food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNrnwAKBU3Q
https://www.youtube.com/@aragusea
Preserve Meat Without Refrigeration FOREVER with only 1 Ingredient! | Historical Salt Cured Meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJ_FK9132I
https://www.youtube.com/@apinchofpatience
BEST FOOD TO PRESERVE FOOD FOR LONG TERM - NO SPECIAL TOOLS OR EQUIPMENT NEEDED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNOlLc99FWg
https://www.youtube.com/@AlaskaPrepper
is drying food enough to cure it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curing_(food_preservation)
- salt is crucial to preservation in many cultres. Salt is extracted from shallow plans placed near sea water and evaporated in North Korea?
20 FOODS THE NORTH KOREANS STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE.
In a country where resourcefulness and survival are a way of life, North Koreans have mastered the art of making food last — sometimes for years, even decades. In this video, we'll uncover 20 North Korean foods that almost never expire, revealing how tradition, necessity, and ingenuity come together in one of the world's most secretive food cultures.
From fermented vegetables and salted seafood to dried grains, noodles, and pickled roots, discover how everyday ingredients are preserved using ancient Korean methods — without refrigeration or modern packaging.
These aren't just survival foods — they reflect a lifestyle built on discipline, self-sufficiency, and adaptation in a challenging environment.
If you're curious about North Korean culture, traditional preservation techniques, or how people thrive with limited resources, this video will give you a rare glimpse into a world few ever see.
20 FOODS THE NORTH KOREANS STOCKPILE THAT NEVER EXPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZch-VLmzqU
https://www.youtube.com/@AsianSolutions
- ancient knowledge/wisdom and unusual beliefs of indigenous people actually helps sometimes because conceptually they work better then modern thinking
For more than six centuries, the Kasepuhan Gelar Alam community in West Java, Indonesia has made food security the foundation of its traditions.
To them, planting rice is a sacred obligation that must be carried out by every member of the community.
A sacred tradition - why this Indonesian community stockpiles rice to last nearly 100 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBMzOmkKCJ8
https://www.youtube.com/@channelnewsasia
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/today/in-pixels/sacred-tradition-why-indonesian-community-stockpiles-rice-last-nearly-100-years-5970386
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciptagelar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples
- would be nice to clean up the oceans and get some fuel/food/fertiler at the same time? If you can track all the waste in the world and recycle it into something would be interesting?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
The Amish Fuel System That Works in ALL 50 States — Big Oil Paid to Bury This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfbD9YEwQeU
https://www.youtube.com/@EliYoderSecrets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Oil
https://www.amazon.com.au/Forbidden-Fuel-History-Power-Alcohol/dp/0803228082
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Forbidden_Fuel.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement
does algae contain oil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel
Studies display that some species of algae have the ability to produce up to 60% of their dry weight in the form of oil. Because the cells grow in aqueous suspension, where they have more effective access to water, CO2 and nutrients are capable of producing large amounts of biomass and usable oil in either high rate algal ponds or photobioreactors (Table 2).
Algae Oil: A Sustainable Renewable Fuel of Future
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026879/
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1565/algal-oil
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/algae-fuel-green-crude
global algae bloom tracker
https://hab.whoi.edu/maps/regions-world-distribution/
https://data.hais.ioc-unesco.org/

Endless Thermal Storage:

- walls made of clay which is a bad/slow conductor of heat. Walls think enough to not absorb all heat during day, thatch poor conducter of heat too which means by time night arrives . Control curing by selecting best time of year to slowly bae the walls
In many parts of Africa where daytime temperatures can become extremely high, traditional clay and mud homes help people stay comfortable even without air conditioning.
These homes are built using materials like earth, clay, straw, and mud bricks, which naturally regulate temperature. Thick earthen walls absorb heat slowly during the day and release it gradually at night, keeping the interior cooler.
Many villages also design homes with small windows, shaded entrances, and thatched roofs, which help reduce direct sunlight and allow natural airflow.
In this video we explore:
• Why clay homes stay cool in extreme heat
• The traditional building methods used in African villages
• How natural materials regulate temperature
• Why modern architects are studying these designs
If you're interested in traditional architecture, sustainable housing, and how people live comfortably in hot climates without modern technology, this video explains the science behind clay homes
How Africans Sleep Through Boiling Temperatures in Clay Homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-hhkeYOI0
https://www.youtube.com/@AfricanSolutions_OG
FREE Heating and Cooling From a Wall That Costs Almost Nothing. Why Is It Illegal?
Discover one of the oldest building technologies on Earth that can heat your home in winter and cool it in summer without electricity. For thousands of years, civilizations used thick earthen walls to stabilize indoor temperatures naturally. Today, the same principle can cut energy costs dramatically—yet modern building codes, financial systems, and industry standards have made this simple solution difficult or even illegal to build in many places.
In this video, we explore the science of thermal mass, the history of earthen architecture, and the surprising reason why a wall made from dirt can outperform modern insulated construction. From ancient cities like Catalhoyuk to modern rammed earth homes tested by national laboratories, the evidence shows that these walls can reduce heating and cooling energy by up to seventy percent.
We break down how thermal lag works, why the R value system ignores it, and how industry standards shaped the way homes are built today. You will also step inside a modern rammed earth house to see how a simple wall can store heat from the sun and release it hours later—creating a naturally stable indoor climate.
This is the story of a building technology that lasted thousands of years, the metric that sidelined it, and why interest in thermal mass construction is rising again today.
FREE Heating and Cooling From a Wall That Costs Almost Nothing. Why Is It Illegal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7GjJ5dw-ZE
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
I'm diving deep into the "lost" science of passive thermal mass—the ultimate secret to a home that heats and cools itself forever. Most modern houses are engineered to be expensive liabilities that lose heat the second you stop paying the bill. In this video, I break down why your wood-frame home is like an aluminum pan on a stove, while ancient structures and modern Earthships act like cast iron, storing energy for days.
From Socrates' "Ideal House" to the Roman Hypocaust and the 70-degree temperature swings handled by Persian Yakhchāls, civilizations have known these secrets for millennia. I'll show you exactly how thermal lag works, how you can retrofit a Trombe wall for a few hundred bucks, and the real reason the $240 billion HVAC industry has fought to keep these building codes buried. If you're serious about energy independence and survival, you need to understand the material you're standing on.
This Home Heats Itself INDEFINITELY: This Is Why The Energy Industry Buried It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbHqheuOvzM
https://www.youtube.com/@SketchySurvival101
- passively driven hot water system?
This Pipe Heats All Your Hot Water for Free FOREVER. Why Did the Gas Industry Bury It?
This pipe can heat all your hot water for free forever No gas No electricity No moving parts In 1891 Clarence Kemp patented a rooftop solar water heater that spread across the United States By 1941 over a million American homes were using the sun to heat their water In places like Miami Beach solar heaters were not an experiment they were standard infrastructure
In this video we uncover how the thermosiphon system works and why it requires zero pumps or electronics Simple physics hot water rises and cold water falls That is enough to circulate water through a collector and storage tank all day powered only by sunlight We look at pioneers like William Bailey who refined the design and helped solar water heating dominate parts of Florida and California for decades
Then natural gas pipelines arrived Utility companies introduced below cost pricing and contractor incentive programs that shifted recommendations away from solar A system that produces no monthly bill could not compete with a model built on recurring revenue The industry did not need to make solar illegal It only needed to make it disappear from memory
While the United States forgot other countries made different decisions Israel required solar water heating in new residential buildings and reached around ninety percent adoption China scaled manufacturing so aggressively that complete systems now cost only a few hundred dollars Millions of households heat water every day without paying a utility for it
We break down the real numbers the real physics and the real financial incentives behind why this technology vanished from mainstream construction The sun has not changed The physics has not changed Only the billing model did
This Pipe Heats All Your Hot Water for Free FOREVER. Why Did the Gas Industry Bury It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaUMqRszzw
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosiphon
- these replicate old architecture from thousands of years ago. Basically, it's the forerunner of modern central heating systems. Obviously, these used higher tmperatures (because an actual fire was used) but basically used thermal mass to keep the building warm
This Medieval Heating Design Should Be Illegal (It's TOO Efficient)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6wk5Yh9GrI
https://www.youtube.com/@MedievalTimesDiscovered
A hypocaust (Latin: hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes. This air can warm the upper floors as well.[1] The word derives from Ancient Greek hupó 'under' and kaustós 'burnt' (compare caustic). The earliest reference to such a system suggests that the Temple of Ephesus in 350 BC was heated in this manner,[2] although Vitruvius attributes its invention to Sergius Orata c. 80 BC.[3] Its invention improved the hygiene and living conditions of citizens, and was a forerunner of modern central heating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calefactory
This 3,000-Year-Old Heating System is Better Than HVAC. Why Is It Illegal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAVag1ZJWLk
https://www.youtube.com/@wildline_YT
This House Heats Itself FOREVER. Why Did the Energy Industry Bury It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V6gFa5tXgA
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
The Cob House Method That Stays Cool in Summer and Warm in Winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNKAC9ZG8fw
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
How to Keep Food Cold Without a Fridge (The Apartment Root Cellar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5oIyl7Sdr8
https://www.youtube.com/@theoldhandymanyt
- it's possible to store heat and cold for extended periods (think of radiators, heaters that have been running for a while, etc...). Lots of interesting possibilities. One thing I've been thinking about is using two thermal masses (one hot and one cold) and they using control systems of various forms (passive and active) in order to regulate temperature. If the hot thermal mass is warm enough you can use it to handle all your heating needs in the home including hot water/showers, air temperature regulation, cooking, etc... If the cold thermal mass is cold enough you can handle your refigeration needs, air temperature regulation, etc... You just blend the two thermal mass flows to get the temperature that you need/want? Thermal mass/temperature ~6 ft down is same all year around?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/06/diagnosing-and-repairingfixing-vulcan.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
FREE Heat 6 Feet Under Your Yard All Year. Why Did the Energy Industry Hide It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNGktqaLG34
This Pipe Heats All Your Hot Water for Free FOREVER. Why Did the Gas Industry Bury It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaUMqRszzw
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
can sand store cold
A sand battery is simply a thermal storage device that accepts and rejects heat. While its current use is primarily heating, it can also be used for cooling. Silicon dioxide (sand) is thermally stable up to around 1000 C, and has a high heat capacity.
https://infinityturbine.com/sand-battery-features.html
Fortunately, researchers around the world are hard at work advancing novel solutions. And this week, a Finnish startup announced the first commercial-scale launch of their new heat storage system.
Tampere-based Polar Night Energy is the brainchild of engineers Tommi Eronen and Markku Ylönen. Their company grew from the knowledge that relying on power stations during cold Finland winters can be extremely expensive and emission intensive.
Their solution for providing stable and affordable thermal energy is a "sand battery." In this system, electricity generated from solar and wind power is passed through an array of electric resistive heating elements, heating the air around it. This hot air is circulated through a network of pipes inside an insulated sand-filled steel tank, which warms the sand up to about 500°C (932°F). The air then flows back out of the tank into a heat exchanger, where it heats water that is then circulated through building heating systems.
When the sun sets, the sand's stored heat is gradually released back into the circulating airflow, keeping the air hot enough to maintain the water at a steady temperature. In this way, sand enables renewable energy to keep people warm, even during the darkest and coldest Finnish nights.
Eronen and Ylönen chose to use sand as the heat storage medium due to its superior heat storage capacity compared to existing water-based heat storage systems. "There is only so much heat you can add to water before it becomes steam. Steam can efficiently distribute heat, but it is not really cost-effective for large-scale storage," Eronen says in an interview.
In contrast, the sand in their system can hold on to the heat for several months, which is perfect for when the sun does not rise above the horizon in Lapland, Finland's northernmost region.
https://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/ceramic-video/video-sand-battery-keeps-finnish-town-warm-during-the-dark-cold-winters/
what is lava made of
When lava erupts it is made up of a slush of crystals, liquid, and bubbles. The liquid "freezes" to form volcanic glass. Chemically lava is made of the elements silicon, oxygen, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and titanium (plus other elements in very small concentrations.
https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/what-lava-made
Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface. Lava may be erupted at a volcano or through a fracture in the crust, on land or underwater, usually at temperatures from 800 to 1,200 °C (1,470 to 2,190 °F). The volcanic rock resulting from subsequent cooling is also often called lava.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava
https://askanearthspacescientist.asu.edu/what-is-lava-made-of
silicon heat storage capacity
Hot silicon technology
Solid or molten silicon offers much higher storage temperatures than salts with consequent greater capacity and efficiency. It is being researched as a possible more energy efficient storage technology. Silicon is able to store more than 1 MWh of energy per cubic meter at 1400 °C. An additional advantage is the relative abundance of silicon when compared to the salts used for the same purpose.[24][25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Heat_storage_in_tanks_or_rock_caverns
How salt and sand could replace lithium batteries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vobMl5ldOs
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
https://www.maltainc.com/solution/
https://polarnightenergy.fi/sand-battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_types
5 DIY Sand Battery Space Heaters! with Heating Elements! 300F/150C (self-regulating Ceramic PTC) 12v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM0d4fVKMoI
https://www.youtube.com/@desertsun02
I Tried a Sand Battery - Here is Why It is a Game-Changer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St8wodQY6VU
https://www.youtube.com/@engineericly
https://polarnightenergy.fi/sand-battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_battery
030 Sand Batteries And Rocket Stoves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJIdW8hS1I
https://www.youtube.com/@TnTOmnibus
I Tried a Sand Battery - Here is Why It is a Game-Changer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St8wodQY6VU
https://www.youtube.com/@engineericly
How a Sand Battery Could Revolutionize Home Energy Storage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVqHYNE2QwE
https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedMF
- some thermal masses/batteries/technologies have very long storage times. Some of them can last for entire seasons which is really interesting. We can keep them countries going through winter periods without having to apply any extra energy? Charge them in the summer and discharge during the winter. The current thermal masses on Earth are very basic/primitive (basically, dirt or rocks). If you engineer it properly like skin in biological organisms with thermoregulation (both active and passive) you can have thermal stablity all the time? Like the sleep cycle in the human body once your needs become more complex you need multiple stages to bring systems that you need online/offline throughout the day, week, season, etc...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/06/diagnosing-and-repairingfixing-vulcan.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnogram
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermostat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedStep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_computing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_Lake_(microprocessor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Lake_(microprocessor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryzen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNP3
temperature range desert
Temperature. During the day, desert temperatures rise to an average of 38°C (a little over 100°F). At night, desert temperatures fall to an average of -3.9°C (about 25°F). At night, desert temperatures fall to an average of -3.9 degrees celsius (about 25 degrees fahrenheit).
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/biome/biodesert.php
- I'm also interested because the structure of skin and in warm blooded/thermostable organisms because it's useful. If we incorporate similar ideas into buildings/architecture does it becomes easier for them to become thermostable using relatively low amounts of energy as well?
uthermal equivalents of electrical base primitives?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_thermodynamic_equations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_equation
what materials store heat easily but release it slowly
https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/79362-best-material-to-absorb-heat-and-then-slowly-radiate-that-heat/
https://sciencing.com/substances-hold-heat-hours-7156.html
https://www.yourhome.gov.au/passive-design/thermal-mass
https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/are-there-materials-that-can-absorb-heat-without-becoming-hot/
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/130523-zeolite-thermal-storage-retains-heat-indefinitely-absorbs-four-times-more-heat-than-water
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-thermal-energy-storage-material-absorbs.html
https://www.greenesa.com/blog/thermal-mass-use-for-heating-and-cooling
heat pack wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heating_pad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-heating_food_packaging
How Africans Build Comfortable Homes Without Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzVmKGW6nzI
https://www.youtube.com/@AfricanSolutions_OG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassblowing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
Architecture Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt-M8o1W_GdSN5yJqLCkRRPVNdBUtV2Q7
https://www.youtube.com/@cgtn/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/@cgtn/videos
- reflective paints which basically act as insulation have been around for ages but generally of ony limited use in the world. I see them in use mostly in Europe and Asia
A two dollar powder that has been used for over four thousand years can drop indoor temperatures by ten degrees and outperform modern air conditioning. Purdue University proved it. Guinness certified it. And the paint and AC industries spent decades making sure you never learned its name.
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📊 DATA SOURCES:
• Purdue University — Ultra-White Paint Study (2021) — Professor Xiulin Ruan
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/relea...
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces — Peer-reviewed study on barium sulfate radiative cooling paint
• Guinness World Records — Whitest Paint certification (2021)
• Smithsonian Magazine — Coverage of ultra-white paint breakthrough (2022)
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Cool roof research and thermal studies
• National Park Service — Historical use of limewash for cooling in traditional buildings
• Grand View Research — Global paint and coatings market size ($200B+ annually)
• Fortune Business Insights — Global HVAC market valuation ($130B+)
• builditsolar.com — DIY lime whitewash roof experiment with thermal measurements
This $2 Powder Replaces Your Air Conditioner. Why Is It Banned in 17 States?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYiohwkGIs
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenCamping

Endless Thermal Generation:

- what I forgot is that once upon a time refrigertaors existed before electricity. If you think about this if you're willing to open up the energy mix you can drive your fridge in many different ways like mechanically, electrically, biologically, mechanically, etc? Huge amounts of flexibility if you use harvested/renewable energy? If you mix thermal mass output and generated thermal energy correctly you can whatever temperature you want?
The Ancient World's Ingenious Ice Making Air Conditioning System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta940DX_zko
https://www.youtube.com/@TodayIFoundOut
How The Fridge Destroyed One of the World's Largest Monopolies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HVYHNTDOFs
https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tudor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gorrie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(engineer)
A Four Thousand Year Old Fridge That Costs Forty Cents And Needs No Electricity
What if refrigeration never required a power outlet? This video uncovers an ancient cooling technology that predates the pyramids, works using only clay pots, sand, and water, and was systematically erased from modern awareness. From Egyptian frescoes to Nigerian villages, we trace the journey of evaporative cooling through four millennia of human innovation. You will discover how a teacher named Mohammed Bah Abba revived this forgotten knowledge in the nineteen nineties and distributed over ninety thousand cooling systems to families with no electricity access. By the end, you will have everything you need to build your own electricity free refrigerator.
The Science That Makes It Work
Evaporative cooling harnesses one of nature's most powerful thermodynamic principles. When water transitions from liquid to vapor, it absorbs enormous energy from its surroundings, approximately two thousand two hundred sixty joules per gram. In a zeer pot system, water moves through porous clay and wet sand, evaporating into the air and drawing heat away from the inner storage chamber. Research validated by MIT demonstrates temperature drops of ten to fifteen degrees Celsius below ambient conditions. The result transforms a simple pair of clay pots into a functional refrigerator capable of extending vegetable shelf life from three days to three weeks or longer.
Resources For Further Reading
Rehman, D., McGarrigle, E., Glicksman, L., and Verploegen, E. A heat and mass transport model of clay pot evaporative coolers for vegetable storage. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020
Basediya, A., Samuel, D.V.K., and Beera, V. Evaporative cooling system for storage of fruits and vegetables, a review. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 2013
Chemin, A., et al. Heat transfer and evaporative cooling in the function of pot in pot coolers. American Journal of Physics, 2018
Ndukwu, M.C. and Manuwa, S.I. Review of research and application of evaporative cooling in preservation of fresh agricultural produce. International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 2014
MIT D Lab. Clay Pot Coolers Research Project, Mali and Rwanda Field Trials, 2017 to 2019
Manyozo, F.N., et al. Effectiveness of evaporative cooling technologies to preserve the postharvest quality of tomato. International Journal of Agronomy and Agricultural Research
Sivashankar, M. and Sundaram, P. Effect of Humidity on Passive Space Cooling in Pot in Pot Chiller. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, 2017
World Bank. Is Post Harvest Loss Significant in Sub Saharan Africa? Living Standards Measurement Study
FAO. Post harvest losses in Sub Saharan Africa, Food and Agriculture Organization Technical Reports
Gunadasa, H.L.C.K., et al. Pot in pot system using waste materials as absorbent, cooling efficiency study, 2017
FREE Refrigeration With Zero Electricity. Why Did They Bury This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uvu3nTT1IQ
https://www.youtube.com/@SecretsBeneathNature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooling_(atomic_physics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cooling
Four thousand years ago, in the middle of one of the hottest deserts on earth, Persian engineers solved air conditioning. Not approximately. Not partially. They solved it — achieving indoor temperatures of 65°F on days when the air outside hit 115°F, using nothing but geometry, airflow, and the physics of evaporation.
The windcatcher rises above the roofline and catches high-altitude breezes the streets never feel. It funnels that air down into the house and across an underground water channel — a qanat — carved through bedrock to carry cool groundwater beneath the city. The air chills. The moisture drops. What enters the living space is not just cool — it's the temperature of a modern air-conditioned room, sustained indefinitely, with zero electricity and zero moving parts.
These buildings are still standing. They still work. Tourists visit them today.
Then the 20th century arrived, and the developed world decided that the correct solution to summer heat was a refrigerant-based compressor unit manufactured overseas, installed by a licensed contractor, serviced on a maintenance plan, and powered by a monthly utility bill that goes up every year.
The windcatcher requires none of that. It asks for a one-time construction cost and returns a lifetime of cool air. There is no filter to replace. No refrigerant to recharge. No thermostat subscription. No outage that leaves you sweating through a heat wave because the grid went down.
Ancient Persia built a better system. We just decided it wasn't worth adopting — right around the time someone figured out how to meter the alternative.
This Desert House Cools Itself FOREVER Without Power. Why Is It Illegal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMBS9Z30Ot4
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBlueprints/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden/featured
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
The 3,000-Year-Old AC That Costs $0. Why Did the Energy Industry Erase It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y2DnsyYODQ
https://www.youtube.com/@LostBuildArchivez
This House Heats Itself FOREVER. Why Did the Energy Industry Bury It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PySWDaZ1Ig
https://www.youtube.com/@HistoriaPrime1212
This $500 Heater Warms Your House For 24 Hours. Why is it illegal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMlXl7Ikt8k
https://www.youtube.com/@wildline_YT
- store food in extreme conditions areas like very low temperature and high temperature regions of the world as they become natural fridges and dryers/demumidifiers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_distortion
How Vikings Kept Fish Fresh for Years?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DzqQNKI9hr4
https://www.youtube.com/@ancient-techie/shorts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish
- one thing that is funny is that a lot of hot springs are hot enough to cook and ironically animals and people rely on it as an alternative way of keeping warm and cooking food?
hot springs global map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hot_springs
Geothermal Power Everywhere: Tech Advances Rapidly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QByk4jJwp9c
https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder
Inside the world's first giant heat pump that heats an entire city with CO2 and sea water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bIlAkTDw8Q
https://www.youtube.com/@Watt-Energy
- compost/bioreactors are very easy to build and maintain. Just thrown organic waste into it in the right quantities. Namely nitrogen/manure, green waste, wood, and maybe food waste? Biogas produced can be used to drive hot water systems and the residual heat used to keep homes warm
how much dung is produced by zoos in a day
Fact Sheet
'Creature Compost' is created from Perth Zoo's animal manure and garden waste.
Total volume of organic waste leaving Perth Zoo for composting is approx. 500 metric tonnes per year.
Approx. half is animal manures, the other half is green waste (garden clippings, chipping etc).
This high quality compost is found nowhere else in Australia.
Perth Zoo (WA's original botanical gardens) has been using it on their botanical estate for years.
The excess is now available for public purchase.
The waste is treated and composted by Nutrarich to the Australian standard for mulches and compost: AS4454
Perth Zoo partnered with Nutrarich because of their sustainability credentials and their commitment to 'closed loop recycling'.
https://perthzoo.wa.gov.au/article/perth-zoo's-creatures-help-gardens-grow-wild
how much sewage does a household produce
https://environment.qld.gov.au/management/water/pollution/wastewater
https://www.gippswater.com.au/water-and-waste/our-services/wastewater-treatment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage
The Forgotten Reactor: Jean Pain's Natural Power Plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0VOcpIkKaA
https://www.youtube.com/@TheForgeEmpire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Pain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost_heater
https://permies.com/t/287008/Jean-Pain-Natural-power-plant
https://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/methane_pain.html
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/10/01/public-works-power-plants-waste-to-energy-oslo-triennale/
- one thing I've found is that heaps of countries are hot enough already without having to resort to active heat generation systems. They can simply rely on passive forms of energy storage (like solar stoves), store heat, and then intermix different thermal masses in order to control temperature. If your heat battery is powerful enough you can use it to heat the air, cook, create hot water, etc...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/06/diagnosing-and-repairingfixing-vulcan.html
solar stove
https://www.aussiestormshop.com.au/hiking-camping/kitchen/stoves/solar-oven/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker
how much heat do deserts hold
Desert surfaces receive a little more than twice the solar radiation received by humid regions and lose almost twice as much heat at night. Many mean annual temperatures range from 20-25° C. The extreme maximum ranges from 43.5-49° C.
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/deserts.php
During the day, desert temperatures rise to an average of 38°C (a little over 100°F). At night, desert temperatures fall to an average of -3.9°C (about 25°F).
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/biome/biodesert.php
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/desert/
How 70 Years Old Man Cooking CORN In Sand | CORN HARVESTING At Mass Production Factory | Pakistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7-g1fNyUiQ
How 20 Years Old Man Cooking CORN In Salt | Mass Production CORN HARVESTING In Pakistan | Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js_niYD5ulY
https://www.youtube.com/@PKFoodSecrets
- solar stoves (mirrors pointed in a way so as to produce heat basically) are pretty basic but very useful since they're not super complicated and are unlikely to break down. Places that have extremes in temperature on regular basis like daily, seasonal, etc... are your best friend as long as you master temperature storage technology?
My DIY Solar Generator Is WAY More Powerful Than I Thought..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alx_vwyksTw
https://www.youtube.com/@ConceptCraftedCreations
Mirrored concrete for cheap solar energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTBWaO45eKU
https://www.youtube.com/@sergiyyurko8668
This mirror is the most efficient for cheap solar energy, but if there is no hail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbTRFIn4IGk
https://www.youtube.com/@sergiyyurko8668
what temperature does magma turn molten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/magma/
https://www.usgs.gov/news/volcano-watch-magma-whats-hot-and-whats-not
- we've spoken about geothermal technology for many decades now but never really done anything with it really? What would be interesting is that magma is a great thermal storage medium as is? With modifications fantastic? Instead of drilling down why not just take magma off the top and heat it up? Cheaper especially if humans haven't really mastered drilling technology yet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafrost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_battery
https://www.harvia.com/en/sauna-heater-stones/
https://arigatojapan.co.jp/saunas-in-japan/
how long does magma hold heat for on surface of earth
https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/volcano-watch-how-do-lava-flows-cool-and-how-long-does-it-take
Lava cools very quickly at first forming a thin crust that insulates the interior of the lava flow.
As a result, basaltic lava flows can form crusts that are thick enough to walk on in 10-15 minutes but the flow itself can take several months to cool!
Since lava is a poor conductor of heat it cools slowly under neither the outside crust.
Also the insulating properties of lava causes it to cool slower and slower over time.
https://www.wfmz.com/weather/how-long-does-it-take-for-lava-to-cool-down/article_3dc324dc-7351-57e2-bb25-abef5666adcb.html
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/magma-role-rock-cycle/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma
Deep beneath the Earth sits 50,000 times more energy than all the world's fossil fuel reserves, but accessing it requires using the same controversial technology that oil companies spent trillions to develop: fracking. Cindy Taff left Shell to prove that drilling for geothermal heat instead of hydrocarbons can deliver what solar, wind and fossil fuels can't — clean, renewable power at all times, regardless of weather. Could this be the breakthrough that finally solves our energy challenges? (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on June 18, 2025)
How to Power the World 24/7 — Without Oil | Cindy Taff | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlc_ALDWc0Q
https://www.youtube.com/@TED
https://thegreencircuit.substack.com/p/harnessing-earths-heat-and-pressure
Cindy D. Taff serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Sage Geosystems, where she is leading the Sage team in deploying Sage's proprietary pressure geothermal technologies across the globe. Before joining Sage, Cindy spent 35 years at Shell where she served as the Vice President of Unconventional Wells & Logistics, leading a team across five countries, accountable for an annual spend of $1 billion. Cindy's contributions to the energy sector have been widely recognized. In 2024, she was honored as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business, acknowledging her pivotal role in driving toward new energy sources. She has also shared her expertise at prominent industry events, including CERAWeek and SXSW, discussing the transformative potential of geothermal energy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-d-taff-53b77a57
- people don't think about this much axial tilt is fantastic because it creates seasons. We can use this to our advantage to store energy and retrieve it provided you have decent thermal storage options?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/06/diagnosing-and-repairingfixing-vulcan.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
are most plants seasonally preferential
Seasonal and habitat dependence of plant species, functional and phylogenetic diversity in agricultural landscapes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X24002528
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/techniques/environmental-factors-affecting-plant-growth
does axial tilt or elliptical orbit contribute more create seasons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt
What Causes the Seasons?
The Short Answer:
Earth's tilted axis causes the seasons. Throughout the year, different parts of Earth receive the Sun's most direct rays. So, when the North Pole tilts toward the Sun, it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere. And when the South Pole tilts toward the Sun, it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/seasons/en/
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/seasons
is heating of magma efficient
Magma heating by decompression-driven crystallization beneath andesite volcanoes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16957729/
Thermal vesiculation during volcanic eruptions
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26701056/
how much energy is required to heat magma
https://magma.geol.ucsb.edu/papers/EoV%20chapter%205%20Lesher&Spera.pdf
Distribution and Transport of Thermal Energy within Magma–Hydrothermal Systems
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/6/212
- so many different possibilities even if you just use bacteria as building blocks for other stuff? Just think of elements, molecules,compounds, etc... as inputs/food/fuel sources available from anywhere and then use relevant bacteria to convert it into what you want. Just focus in on working with rather then against environment? Once you intermesh them into larger more complex groups you can do so much more like microchips as part of a computer?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=project+hail+mary+talking+to+rocky
Rocky Introduction Scene | PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) Movie CLIP 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-NVFrxQDA
https://www.youtube.com/@JoBloMovieClips
Rocky the Alien Visits Grace' Spaceship - PROJECT HAIL MARY Movie Clip (2026) Ryan Gosling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TUzmeHT0AY
https://www.youtube.com/@EntertainmentAccess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-blooded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm-blooded
do any bacteria produce petroleum
In the study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Warwick and MIT, and published today (5 October) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, the scientists measured the amount of hydrocarbons in a range of laboratory-grown cyanobacteria and used the data to estimate the amount produced in the oceans.
Although each individual cell contains minuscule quantities of hydrocarbons, the researchers estimated that the amount produced by two of the most abundant cyanobacteria in the world – Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus – is more than two million tonnes in the ocean at any one time. This indicates that these two groups alone produce between 300 and 800 million tonnes of hydrocarbons per year, yet the concentration at any time in unpolluted areas of the oceans is tiny, thanks to other bacteria that break down the hydrocarbons as they are produced.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bacteria-in-the-worlds-oceans-produce-millions-of-tonnes-of-hydrocarbons-each-year
https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/high-octane-bacteria-could-ease-pain-at-the-pump/
Microbial‐based motor fuels: science and technology
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3815883/
are there any bacteria that give off electrons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bacteria
Electroactive Bacteria in Natural Ecosystems and Their Applications in Microbial Fuel Cells for Bioremediation: A Review
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10263229/
are any bacteria which produce endothermic reactions
https://www.science-revision.co.uk/A-level_energetics_enthalpy_changes.html
Exothermic and endothermic reactions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zb7wwnb#z8shhcw
Extremely thermophilic microorganisms as metabolic engineering platforms for production of fuels and industrial chemicals
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4633485/
which bacteria cause endothermic reactions
Chapter 4Bacterial Metabolism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7919/
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/engineering/engineering-thermodynamics/endothermic-reactions/
which bacteria grow in straight lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_cellular_morphologies

Endless Energy Harvesting:

- a lot of the earlier ideas I've look at would actually cut energy usage drastically (~50-75% for many households) with minimal changes to people lives? I didn't think that capitalism/our social systems would/could stop them put into play?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
Cuba blackouts deepen as US oil blockade pushes island to breaking point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6oa0NEij40
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Energy crisis hits Thailand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ_uMjlfuqw
https://www.youtube.com/@ThaiPBSWorld/videos
Asian nations brace for fuel shortages, civil unrest as oil prices continue upward spiral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLf1YCGBU0
Bangladesh fuel crisis deepens as war on Iran drives long queues and loan plea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPInl-2qZks
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Zero_Point_Module
https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Naquadah_generator
- filter cooking oil, heat + circulate, mix with reagent like methanol/low water content alchohol, sodium hydroxide/lye, rinse/clean the biodiesel,
Making Biodiesel from Cooking Oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_doR7WEdIok
https://www.youtube.com/@integral_chemistry
How To Make Biodiesel Using A Used Cooking Oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi1cqmvio5Y
https://www.youtube.com/@videojug
Making Biodiesel from Cooking Oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_doR7WEdIok
https://www.youtube.com/@integral_chemistry
- gassification is pretty interesting and it involves applying relatively low level heat to wood/briquettes which can be in place of petrol to feed combustion based engines?
Cheap electricity from wood? sustainable DIY power plant 🤯 off grid gas producer gasifier generator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5l1herOyZs
https://www.youtube.com/@joshuadelisle
Stop Hoarding Gasoline The WWII Wood Gas Generator That Runs Cars on Sticks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeapBpGBZsk
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
fema gasifier
https://www.driveonwood.com/library/
https://www.driveonwood.com/library/fema-gasifier/
https://onestraw.wordpress.com/fema-gasifier-sustain-jefferson-style/
can you use briquettes in a gasifier
https://cfnielsen.com/segments/wood/solutions/gasification/
Based on previous experiences, no matter for downdraft or updraft fixed bed gasifiers, they can be operated best using densified fuels (pellets/briquettes) instead of fine light biomass. Many researchers have been doing a lot of work on making high quality pellets/briquettes from raw biomass [18], [19], [20], [21], [22]. With the awareness that fuel quality could be significantly improved through torrefaction (200–300 °C) or carbonization at a low temperature (350–500 °C) [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], some other researchers also engaged in the combination of densification coupled with torrefaction or carbonization processes [28], [29], [30], [31], [32].
Assessment of the carbonized woody briquette gasification in an updraft fixed bed gasifier using the Euler-Euler model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030626191830401X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briquette
- biogas is perfect for developing countries because capital input requirements are very low.
Today I'll try to make a self-sufficient power and hot water system that can run off scrap wood, to make enough charcoal for one day's worth of electricity and at the same time use the waste heat to also make a day's worth of hot water. So you could run this whole retort system once a day on scrap wood and produce all your own hot water and electricity.
Complete Off Grid Energy System | DIY Electricity & Hot Water - Charcoal Retort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEop8qmmt4M
https://www.youtube.com/@GreenhillForge
No More Gas Cylinders! How I Get Free Gas All Year Long Using Two Blue Barrels + PVC Pipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F360-I7N1Pk
https://www.youtube.com/@HolicCreation
Infinite Gas for $25 — The Forgotten Engineering Trick
A homemade fuel system built from cheap materials once promised something that sounded impossible: gas on demand without depending entirely on the pump. During shortages, wars, and supply collapses, people turned to improvised fuel engineering to keep vehicles moving when conventional fuel was scarce or unavailable. It was clever, real, and far more dangerous than most people realize. This is the forgotten engineering trick they stopped teaching.
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📊 SOURCES:
• U.S. Department of Energy — Alternative fuels and fuel-property data
• DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center — Ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, and fuel compatibility
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Emissions tampering and defeat-device enforcement
• Historical records on wartime producer gas and substitute fuel systems
• Technical references on gasification, toxic gas risk, and improvised fuel hazards
• Public materials on fuel shortages, emergency engineering, and off-grid transport systems
Infinite Gas for $25 — The Forgotten Engineering Trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMdnhltRFVM
https://www.youtube.com/@LostNatureSecrets
- this is a very crude implementation of home made biogas creation. Large tank or barrels required. Fill up with 75% manure and 25% water. Add gas outlet, pressure release valve, liquid release valve. Allow it to ferment for a few weeks to create a few minutes gas. Air compressor fittings and hoses used to control biogas fuel flow. Epoxy putty and teflon tape used to ensure container is air tight. Slurry can be mixed in ratio of 1:10 to water to creat fertiliser. Flashback arrestor required for safety reasons. Can we simply fill up old caverns and let biogas ferment?
How to Make Free Gas with Garbage | Free Gas Butane - Propane | Liberty BioGas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg7tePqdSmk
https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenTechnology_
Make your own Bio gas to save money on LPG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Jtl-VhkKI
https://www.youtube.com/@VIDEOEPPO
Your Propane Tank Is Empty — The Backyard Biogas Digester That Cooks Food Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arG1aN0wSYg
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
- biogas won't explode like LPG/natural gas because it's lighter then air and mixes with surrounding environment? Always faced with uncomfortable truths when trying to solve many problems. It's more efficient to have decentralised energy production/creation if possible. That reduces leakages across the network, means you don't have as far to transport/transfer energy, etc... Biogas even at a individual residential level seems very easy to make?
Inside the solution to India's waste problem | Brut Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZEM5K72aVs
https://www.youtube.com/@BrutIndia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_natural_gas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_natural_gas_terminal
How to turn your Tiolet waste into cooking gas. Bioflex 3.0 biogas system installation in Nigeria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5mozQea6jc
https://www.youtube.com/@nobertogroup8359
How to generate your own biogas and organic fertiliser from food waste and farm waste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP4ob9RVklo
How Food Waste is Converted into Biogas & Fertilizer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TeSW8eXeNs
https://www.youtube.com/@FlexiBiogas/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankless_water_heating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_heating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_water_heater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Oil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Energy
- compressed biogas cheaper then petrol and able to run in normal/unmodified cars? Waste and landfill is often used. Segregation/separation of waste material required to make biogas processing work?
Eco India: How can bio-CNG fuel bring India closer to its clean energy goals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcXFddW6Afw
https://www.youtube.com/@ScrollIn
https://www.agrogaz.com/EN/index.html
https://www.primove.in/about/
compressed biogas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas
https://www.iea.org/reports/outlook-for-biogas-and-biomethane-prospects-for-organic-growth/an-introduction-to-biogas-and-biomethane
https://gazpack.nl/en/biogas-compressor/
India's biogas industry is booming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC9L_UI49zM
https://www.youtube.com/@HinduBusinessLine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_Renewable_Energy_Systems_Pvt._Ltd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jio-bp
The Problem with Biofuels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEB6hCpIGM
https://www.youtube.com/@RealEngineering
- crude biogas setup gives you ~1-3hrs hot gas per day for an average 1-2 person home. Optimisation gives you a a 1.2-6 hours?
Home Bio Gas Toilet/Stove Installation + 1 year update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-YYtezg9M
https://www.youtube.com/@thatyurtcouple
I24 News - HomeBiogas: an Innovative Solution to the Energy Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ZZyVySq-k
HomeBiogas and UNDP Empower 500 families in Rwanda!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV_e_0r78VQ
https://www.youtube.com/@HomeBiogas1/videos
if you optimise biogas digestion how much conversion can you get
Unlocking biogas potential: A comprehensive study on pretreatment techniques of organic substrate for enhanced anaerobic digestion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544225038861
How BMP Values Vary Among Different Feedstocks
Animal manure: 200-450 L/kg VS (lower for cattle, higher for poultry)
Food waste: 400-800 L/kg VS (higher for fats and oils, lower for vegetable matter)
Energy crops: 350-700 L/kg VS (higher for specialised biogas crops, lower for conventional crops)
Agricultural residues: 150-450 L/kg VS (depending on lignin content)
Wastewater sludge: 250-350 L/kg VS (higher for primary sludge)
Industrial organic waste: 100-600 L/kg VS (highly variable based on source)
...
Quick Reference: Typical Total Solids Content
Dairy manure (fresh): 12-14%
Pig manure (fresh): 8-10%
Food waste (mixed): 15-30%
Corn silage: 25-35%
Grass silage: 20-30%
Wastewater primary sludge: 3-7%
...
Calculating Volatile Solids Percentage
Feedstock Type Typical VS (% of TS) Notes
Dairy Manure 75-85% Lower with sand bedding
Pig Manure 75-86% Higher with concentrated feeding
Food Waste 85-95% Very high biodegradability
Crop Residues 80-90% Lower for woody materials
Wastewater Sludge 65-75% Higher inert content
https://blog.anaerobic-digestion.com/how-much-biogas/
Improvement of biogas yields in an anaerobic digestion process via optimization technique
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-024-04540-6
Potential substrates for biogas production through anaerobic digestion-an alternative energy source
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11636105/
- energy and fuel. Converted fuel is cleaner then one derived straight from crude oil? No support from government or private sector for recyling into fuel?
convert pvc to oil
Can plastic be recycled and converted into new energy sources? The answer is that plastics such as PP, PE, and PS can be converted back into fuel oil using pyrolysis machines, while PET and PVC cannot undergo pyrolysis.
https://www.wasteoiltodieseloil.com/waste_to_oil_news/Industry_Trends/convert_plastic_back_to_oil_1160.html
https://www.electricrate.com/convert-plastic-to-oil/
https://bestonpyrolysisplant.com/convert-plastic-to-oil-plant/
Recycling Waste Plastics into Fuel Oil, using Pyrolysis Technology by FSK Builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnmUmFEpcow
https://www.youtube.com/@JervinChristianKabigting
plastic waste to oil/fuel improved pyrolysis reactor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfjaVbLb8I
https://www.youtube.com/@HazelChem
Eco India: Could a fuel generated from plastic waste replace fossil fuels and meet energy needs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_bNmiDYn5g
https://www.youtube.com/@ScrollIn
GLIMPSE OF INDIAN TYRE PYROLYSIS FACTORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvbfOQHlP50
https://www.youtube.com/@pairanpyrolysis801
We convert old tires into fuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0hPBCmYmNE
https://www.youtube.com/@Garage54ENG
Plastic to Fuel | Turning Recycled Plastic to Fuel Like Petrol | How to make Plastic to Petrol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmjdJzL96xg
https://www.youtube.com/@MH4TECH
I MADE MY OWN GASOLINE! How to Turn Plastic into Free Fuel at Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_3h9SnIac
https://www.youtube.com/@HolicCreation
Plastic into petrol || Produce fuel petrol from plastic waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b-NnDpMxv8
https://www.youtube.com/@MH4TECH
Inside Pakistan's Tire Oil Factories | How Old Truck Tires Become Black Oil
Inside Pakistan's tire oil factories, thousands of old truck and heavy-machine tires are burned every day to extract thick black oil. This documentary takes you deep into a hidden recycling industry where extreme labor, toxic smoke, and massive industrial drums turn scrap tires into crude fuel.
From giant Caterpillar and truck tires to rusted pyrolysis tanks, this video shows the raw reality of how black oil is produced in large-scale operations. Men of all ages work nonstop in harsh conditions, surrounded by endless fields of used tires.
This is not just recycling — it's survival, labor, and industry colliding in one of Pakistan's most dangerous and least documented environments.
✅ KEY HIGHLIGHTS
✅ Real tire-to-oil factories operating in Pakistan
✅ Giant truck & Caterpillar tires used for black oil extraction
✅ Full-scale industrial drums and oil pipelines in action
✅ Workers of different ages performing extreme manual labor
✅ Rare inside view of a hidden recycling industry
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Inside Pakistan's Tire Oil Factories | How Old Truck Tires Become Black Oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdu9aJyMqzo
https://www.youtube.com/@PkTechnologyskills

Eco India: From lighting streets to fuelling farms, this village makes the best out of its cow dung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPdCXwOyDUg
Eco India: Why India's status as 'open defecation free' is far from the truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGOH1NsooII
https://carbonloops.com/
http://www.garvtoilets.com/
https://www.garvtoilets.com/
Biogas is a gaseous renewable energy source produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste, wastewater, and food waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas
Biofuels are biomass-derived fuels from plants, animals, or waste; depending on which type of biomass is used, they could lower CO 2 emissions by 20–98% compared to conventional jet fuel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel
We convert old tires into fuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0hPBCmYmNE
https://www.youtube.com/@Garage54ENG
- some cars can run pure biodiesel while others have to run a mix of petrol + biodiesel or diesel + biodiesel. The ratio depends on the engine type but can range from 50/50 to 90/10. Only mechanical fuel pumps can use biodiesel?
How to create free DIESEL FUEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF07QbfqKjc
https://www.youtube.com/@scottyfairno
https://www.youtube.com/@Biogaschannel/videos
- cooking oil + methyl alchohol + sodium hydroxide or potasium hydroxide. Heat it and then let it settle. Dilute with water several times. Biodiesel works with trucks and tractors and should in theory work with generators as well?
The simple way to make bio diesel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VxYuYiZZZA
https://www.youtube.com/@JonJandaiLifeisEasy
http://www.punpunthailand.org/index.html
http://www.jon-jandai.com/index.html
- I've looked at multi-fuel options for a while now but not deeply? If you bypass the lockouts to allow alternative fuels and integrate some of the changes that others (and myself) have looked at (mainly to do with Electrical Control Unit (ECU) changes, timing, autopiloting systems, pruning off un-needed weight inside car, etc... savings of ~50-75% fuel) you can have massive fuel efficiency gains and have more and cheaper fuel available to use. Will take real world experience to make it work though on a mass scale though
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
What if everything automotive engineers thought they knew about engine fuel was completely wrong?
In this video, we explore the incredible true story of Paulo Gomes, a Brazilian mechanic who defied Volkswagen's top engineers in 1975 by successfully converting Beetle engines to run on pure sugarcane ethanol. While VW insisted it was technically impossible, Gomes discovered modifications that not only made it work but actually increased horsepower by 20%. His garage innovations sparked Brazil's ethanol revolution, transformed an entire nation's energy independence, and proved that sometimes the greatest engineering breakthroughs come from those brave enough to challenge what experts say can't be done.
#engineering #cars #innovation #history #energy
This Brazilian Mechanic OUTSMARTED VW With a "Secret" Beetle Engine That Ran on Ethanol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16OGInnN8s
https://www.youtube.com/@BackshiftGarage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndyCar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible-fuel_vehicle
S4 E27 We test alternative diesel fuels Vegetable, waste, ATF..Possible engine damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-bYBy3Sd4
https://www.youtube.com/@robotcantina8957
Four Fascinating Ways to Turn Trash Into Fuel | World Wide Waste | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alljc5elqqw
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
Biomass: How clean is energy from waste and plants really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXu15NlOuGo
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(phase_transition)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_transition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefaction
African GENIUS makes Old Engines outdo Modern Engines!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDtOC3X2o4
https://www.youtube.com/@CarTechgadgets
Take a Look at Ghana's First Plastic House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4eRPOt6-vk
https://www.youtube.com/@TV3Ghana
fuel efficiency 2 stroke vs 4 stroke
Four-Stroke Outboards: Smooth and Efficient
= More Complex Design: These engines include a valve train and a dedicated lubrication system, making them heavier and more intricate.
= Better Fuel Efficiency: 4-strokes are known for their excellent fuel economy, consuming significantly (up to 50%) less fuel than 2-strokes.
= Lower Emissions: They produce up to 90% cleaner emissions and comply with stricter environmental standards.
= Quieter Operation: Thanks to their design, they tend to run smoother and quieter with less vibration.
= Higher Initial Cost: You'll typically pay more upfront for a 4-stroke, but the fuel savings can add up over time.
= More Durable: Built for longevity, these engines often outlast 2-strokes when maintained properly.
Heavy weight and more suitable for Commercial Use
https://www.victoryparts.com.au/2-stroke-or-4-stroke-outboard-motors/
https://www.valvolineglobal.com/en-au/blog/education/difference-between-2-stroke-and-4-stroke-engine/
- pre-2000 era mechanical fuel pump based diesel cars much more capable of running alternate/home home fuel then newer cars which have have lower tolerances for alternative fuels. Alternative/home made fuels are legal in some countries but not others. Purity, density, combustive power, etc... of fuel critical? Some diesel fuel is derived from some vegetable oils?
How to Create Homemade Diesel Fuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izn9hmveRCY
How to create free DIESEL FUEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF07QbfqKjc
https://www.youtube.com/@scottyfairno
Vegetable Oil for Diesel | Top Gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lqCwNReU1Y
https://www.youtube.com/@TopGear
Recycled Vegetable Oil as Fuel for the Diesel Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6F_IA0x5h0
https://www.youtube.com/@DWREV
Can a 196cc diesel engine run on Waste Motor Oil (WMO)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NV_ROvM0jI
https://www.youtube.com/@austin_does_stuff
Will Caterpillar Diesel run on Cooking oil? Attempt to run engine on Transmission Fluid & other oils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlhKCMBXus0
https://www.youtube.com/@smirnovunleashed
- any petroleum based oil is mixed, filtered, and blended with petrol to produce black diesel. Filtering can be done via passive filtering, active pressure filtering, centrifugal filtering, etc... As long as you run things clean, thin enough, etc... you shouldn't have any problems. One interesting thing for me is that a lot of people are saying after environmental regulations were passed it basically made alternative fuel power difficult or impossible? Can you bypass these sensors or alter the entires to work on alternative fuels?
Introduction to Black Diesel - Alternative Fuels - Waste Oil - WMO - Nearly Free Fuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp2IHBsyoek
https://www.youtube.com/@NotSoGrandGarage
We convert old tires into fuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0hPBCmYmNE
https://www.youtube.com/@Garage54ENG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/going-to-waste-two-years-after-redcycles-collapse-australias-soft-plastics-are-hitting-the-environment-hard
The Solar Bus Revolution Begins in Nigeria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_aluvpaqU
https://www.youtube.com/@DWREV
- I'm obviously interested in alternative fuels/energy and producing fuels and energy at high volume easily? One strange thing for me is that there are bacteria, plants, etc... which produce relatively high quality oil like products? This as the source of how oil makes more sense then the fossil fuel theory at times when you think abou it?
indycar methanol engines
When did IndyCar switch from methanol?
For the 2006 season the fuel was a 90%/10% mixture of methanol and ethanol. Starting in 2007, the league advertised "100% Fuel Grade Ethanol," the first competitive series to utilize renewable fuel. The mixture was actually 98% ethanol and 2% gasoline, provided by Lifeline Foods of Saint Joseph, Missouri.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndyCar_Series
methanol combustion equation
The complete combustion of methanol proceeds according to the equation: 2CH₃OH + 3O₂ → 2CO₂ + 4H₂O.
Question Video: Classifying a Named Reaction as Endothermic or Exothermic Based on the Reaction Enthalpy
https://www.nagwa.com/en/videos/897127037367/
ethanol combustion equation
Energy changes which accompany chemical reactions are almost always expressed by thermochemical equations. For example, during combustion ethanol reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water vapor, and heat according to the thermochemical equation: C2H5OH + 3 O2 → 2 CO2 + 3 H2O (l) (4) ΔHm = -1367 kJ.
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/ChemPRIME_(Moore_et_al.)/03%3A_Using_Chemical_Equations_in_Calculations/3.08%3A_Thermochemical_Equations/3.8.02%3A_Environment-_Gas
gasoline combustion equation
The complete combustion of octane, C8H18, a component of gasoline, proceeds as follows: 2 C8H18 (l) + 25 O2 (g) → 16 CO2 (g) + 18 H2O (g) (c) Octane has a density of 0.692 g/mL at 20 °C.
https://www.pearson.com/channels/general-chemistry/asset/ed124cc8/the-complete-combustion-of-octane-c8h18-a-component-of-gasoline-proceeds-as-foll-2
can you run engines off of vodka
how much wasted alchohol is dumped
https://www.neorsd.org/history-barrels-of-alcohol-down-sewers/
which bacteria produce oil
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bacteria-in-the-worlds-oceans-produce-millions-of-tonnes-of-hydrocarbons-each-year
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2023/8882842
how was oil made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum
https://www.chartindustries.com/Articles/Where-Does-Crude-Oil-Come-From-And-5-Other-Things
https://arcticportal.org/energy-portlet/oil/formation-of-oil
- conversion between engine types is possible but is difficult and success is not guaranteed. On top of that when you decide to switch fuel type things become even more complicated
Turn Gasoline Into Fuel Injected Diesel Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0UbGMQblc0
https://www.youtube.com/@letslearnsomething30
We convert a gasoline engine to run on diesel fuel - will it work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Nn7ipBrK0
Gasoline engine converted to diesel - first drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4eq06zCWHE
We convert old tires into fuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0hPBCmYmNE
4 stroke to 2 stroke Lada engine conversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74fizQBaGGE
We convert a Subaru boxer engine into an inline-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dwQb2DEt6I
https://www.youtube.com/@Garage54ENG
I Turned 4 Fridge Compressors Into an Inline-4 Engine | Designed in Shapr3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCzYWdwCzE
https://www.youtube.com/@letslearnsomething30
Restoration FULL Engine HONDA GX160 | Restore Engine Honda Rusty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XolXlC_3EbE
https://www.youtube.com/@therestorator7215
If You Understand Volumetric Efficiency You Understand Engines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eRsaOxxiUc
https://www.youtube.com/@d4a
I Made a MOVING DOLLY into a GO KART!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mda5akow15w
https://www.youtube.com/@gamblerspec
The Differences Between Piston and Rotary Engines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x04M8YwOBw
https://www.youtube.com/@CarThrottle
Spain is Living in 2050? Revolutionary 1 Stroke INNengine Analyzed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0_3qFmPUM
https://www.youtube.com/@d4a
- another example of desperation forcing individuals and countries to look for alternatives...
Fifteen years ago, Uruguay was experiencing an energy crisis brought on by its reliance on fossil fuels; today, the nation produces 98 percent of its electricity from renewable sources (and even exports extra energy to neighboring countries). How did they turn things around so quickly? Uruguay's former secretary of energy, Ramón Méndez Galain, explains how they pulled off this unprecedented shift -- and shares how any other country can do the same.
This Country Runs on 98 Percent Renewable Electricity | Ramón Méndez Galain | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_3XJhFBvEk
Energy expert Sebastián Kind helped Argentina go from virtually no renewable energy to generating nearly 40 percent of its electricity from wind and solar in just six years, despite economic crises and skepticism. How did the country's transition off fossil fuels happen so quickly? He shows why the key breakthrough didn't hinge on technology or resources — and explains how other countries can follow the same path. (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on June 17, 2025)
Most Countries Fail at Clean Energy. Here's How Mine Succeeded | Sebastián Kind | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACC5KCPRt_U
https://www.youtube.com/@TED
- lots of plants that are great fuels?
There's a grass that grows 4 inches a day, produces up to 30 tons of dry biomass per acre, and when compressed into pellets, burns with a thermal intensity that directly rivals coal — without the toxic sulfur emissions. Scientists hailed it as the ultimate "Green Coal," a fossil fuel killer that requires no fertilizer and regrows endlessly from its own roots. That plant is Arundo donax, commonly known as Giant Reed, and it could theoretically heat every home in America for free. But a fuel source that grows itself is a nightmare for fossil fuel monopolies, so the government classified it as a "Noxious Weed" and made it illegal to plant in states like California and Texas. Today, millions are spent on herbicides to eradicate the very plant that could replace coal forever. In this video, we break down the science of this biological powerhouse and the real reason you're not allowed to grow it.
This "Grass" Grows 4 Inches A Day. Burns Better Than Coal. Why Is It Illegal To Plant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9V1Vo8eme0
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundo_donax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panicum_virgatum
Hidden in the tropical forests of South America grows a tree that produces something almost too extraordinary to believe — raw, natural diesel fuel you can pour directly into an engine. The Copaifera langsdorffii, nicknamed the "Diesel Tree," can be tapped like a maple tree and yields up to 40 liters of hydrocarbon-rich oleoresin per year from a single mature tree. Its fuel is so chemically similar to industrial diesel that local farmers have been running their tractors and generators on it for generations. So why haven't you heard of it? When energy companies discovered a decentralized, farm-grown fuel source that could bypass the entire petroleum industry, research into commercializing it quietly died — and the world kept pumping oil. In this video, we expose the science behind the Diesel Tree, why it actually works, and the powerful interests that may have kept it out of your gas tank.
This Tree Produces Pure Diesel Fuel. Yields 40 Liters A Year. Why Did Big Oil Hide It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRjHOSrTMXw
https://www.youtube.com/@BuriedGarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copaifera_langsdorffii
Better Than Gasoline. Grows In Ditches. Banned Twice. Why?
The plant: Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa) — the same species as marijuana, with 0% psychoactive effect. It grows on roadsides, ditches, poor soil, zero irrigation, zero pesticides. America grew it for 10,000 years. Then it was banned twice — by industry lobbying, not science.
The energy numbers that terrified Big Oil:
Hemp produces 800+ liters of biodiesel per hectare — more than soybean (375 L/ha), sunflower, peanut, or rapeseed (HempGazette; Wikipedia Biodiesel Crop Yields table)
Hemp biomass yields 12–22 tonnes per hectare of dry mass with 5,000–8,000 BTU/lb energy content — comparable to coal (BiomasConnect; PMC 2022)
UConn 2010 study: 97% conversion efficiency of hemp oil to biodiesel — the highest of any crop tested
Ethanol yield from hemp structural carbohydrates: 628 L/tonne vs corn's 485 L/tonne (Agronomy Journal USAMV, 2020)
Energy yield: 100 GJ/hectare/year — enough to power entire communities (PMC 2022)
The two bans — both triggered by industry, not safety:
🚫 Ban #1 — 1937: Marihuana Tax Act William Randolph Hearst (timber/newspaper empire), DuPont (synthetic nylon — just patented in 1935), and Standard Oil lobbied Harry Anslinger to criminalize cannabis. One acre of hemp produces as much paper as 4 acres of trees. Hemp threatened Hearst's forests, DuPont's synthetic fibers, and Rockefeller's petroleum. The bill passed with almost no Congressional debate. Industrial hemp — which cannot get anyone high — was wiped out alongside marijuana.
🚫 Ban #2 — 1970: Controlled Substances Act Nixon's War on Drugs placed all cannabis — including industrial hemp — in Schedule I (alongside heroin). A Nixon aide later admitted the war on drugs was designed to target hippies and Black Americans, not drugs. Hemp stayed Schedule I for 48 more years.
What was lost in those 81 years:
1896: Rudolf Diesel designed his engine explicitly to run on vegetable/seed oils, including hemp (ScienceDirect; Reddit TIL)
1941: Henry Ford built a car made of hemp fiber plastic, running on hemp ethanol — after 12 years of research. The car body was 10× stronger than steel and weighed 1,000 lb less
US Constitution was drafted on hemp paper. The Mayflower's sails and ropes were hemp. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp at their estates (Mount Vernon; CalCoyote)
From colonial times through 1937, hemp was a legal tender crop — farmers could pay taxes with it in Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
Sources: HempGazette (biodiesel 800L/ha); UConn 2010 (97% biodiesel conversion); PMC 2022 (100 GJ/ha energy yield); Agronomy Journal USAMV 2020 (ethanol 628 L/t); Hempology.org (Ford 1941); ScienceDirect (Diesel engine history); PBS NewsHour (hemp ban 1937); Drug Policy Alliance (Nixon War on Drugs); Vote Hemp (2018 Farm Bill); Statista 2024 ($1.3T Big Oil revenue); Yahoo Finance 2024 ($6.1T oil & gas market); Wikipedia Biodiesel Crop Yields.
Better Than Gasoline. Grows In Ditches. High Energy — Why Was This Plant Banned Twice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAnf0Mm6Vr0
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio
- once you begin to understand energy, sub-cellular engineering, and sub-atomic engineering, etc... amazing things are possible? Any temperature, electron/voltage drop, potential energy/gravity difference, relative wind speed difference, relative tidal wave height difference, etc... and gradient can be used for energy production?
⚡ Free Electricity for $15 — The Off-Grid Trick Nobody Talks About
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oofx4Mt7V0U
https://www.youtube.com/@Sidney_Explains_Money
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Johann_Seebeck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_heat_pump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology
how high are electrical storms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_lightning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere
atmopshere
https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/atmosphere
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/atmosphere/en/
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/layers-earths-atmosphere
https://eli.lehigh.edu/sites/eli.lehigh.edu/files/Atmosphere_PrintVersion.pdf
- scan the world looking for massive gradients? Use AI/ML to suggest suitable low capital investments/projects to create energy and useful resources worldwide?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/01/country-gdp-growth-correlation-checker.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/abs-postcode-research-script-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/07/law-and-disorder-downloader-script_27.html
- extremophiles form the backbone of terraforming? They allow you to create the required pieces to build up into more complex life? Good way to think of them as they build Lego pieces from atoms, molecules which can be then pieced together into what you want. Another way to think of it are little function of a larger computer program. As you move from bacteria to multi-cellular life and complex plant and animal life the complexity increases like moving from low level programming languages to higher level ones?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level_programming_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile
what areas of earth are the same temperature all year round
https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1chhpn5/what_city_in_the_world_has_the_closest/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_climate
- you can control invasive species via filter plants? These plants have a tendency to filter toxins or particular materials like salt from whatever ecosystem your dealing with. There are plants which when strategically placed can deter pests as well. Use drones and satellite images to determine where things are naturally better and try to replicate this?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/mar/14/algal-bloom-south-australia-update-one-year-on
A two dollar weed growing in ditches across America purifies contaminated water better than a two hundred dollar filter. The United Nations documented this in 1983. The World Health Organization confirmed it in 2008. The four point five billion dollar water filter industry made sure you never heard about it.
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📊 SOURCES:
• Jahn, S.A.A. (1981) — "Experiences of a new coagulant prepared from seeds of Moringa oleifera" — Water Supply & Management, Vol. 5
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (1983) — Report on Moringa oleifera as a water treatment agent
• World Health Organization (2008) — Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality — Chapter on natural coagulants
• Pritchard, M. et al. (2010) — "The use of Moringa oleifera and Moringa stenopetala as coagulants for water treatment" — Physics and Chemistry of the Earth
• Awad, H. et al. (2013) — "Moringa oleifera seed extract as natural coagulant for water treatment" — Journal of Water and Health
• University of Ghana field study (2012) — Volta River turbidity and bacterial reduction data
• EPA antimicrobial registration process — cost and timeline documentation: epa.gov/pesticide-registration
FREE Purified Water FOREVER From a $2 Weed. Why Is It Illegal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX1YGQLms10
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenCamping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moringa_oleifera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coagulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flocculation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove
https://hlw.org.au/news/power-to-the-mangroves
https://www.manggear.com/blogs/stories/can-mangroves-clean-water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster
https://www.natureaustralia.org.au/what-we-do/our-priorities/oceans/ocean-stories/oysters-filter-water/
How a "Problem" Plant Is Saving a Forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNQjGYqaN0w
https://www.youtube.com/@Ecosia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthus_(plant)
are there any bacteria that kill weeds
Controlling weeds with fungi, bacteria and viruses: a review
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4551831/
Controlling Weeds with Phytopathogenic Bacteria
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/weed-technology/article/abs/controlling-weeds-with-phytopathogenic-bacteria/D64C26EDB7F85ECD09C35D2DE099407D
It's Crazy! Vietnam Is Farming Billions Of Tiny Creatures That Once Devastated Global Agriculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlp30X_oseE
https://www.youtube.com/@Mandarintechmido
- this is something I thought of for a long time now. Namely, turning the entire ocean into an eletrolyte pool. Even if you use timed flow water tight boxes where you automatically periodically/regularly switch out the electrolyte it gives you basically endless energy (though I suspect the yield would be poor)
Salt + Copper Wire = Free Power Generator — The 1920 Trick They Buried
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What if a simple combination of salt and copper wire could generate electricity? In this video, we explore a fascinating 1920s science trick that demonstrates how basic materials can create a small electrical current. This simple experiment shows the power of electrochemical reactions, where saltwater and metal can produce energy in a surprisingly easy way.
Using common items like salt, copper wire, and simple household materials, this classic setup works similarly to an early battery cell, converting chemical energy into electrical energy. Experiments like this were often used in early science education and demonstrate the fundamentals behind how batteries work today.
But why did simple electricity experiments like this fade from public knowledge over time? As modern technology advanced, people relied more on commercial batteries and complex power systems, while these small DIY demonstrations became less common.
In this video, we break down how the salt and copper wire setup works, the science behind it, and how you can safely try this classic experiment yourself to understand basic electricity.
#DIYScience #ElectricityExperiment #ScienceTricks #SimpleGenerator #STEMLearning #ScienceExplained
Salt + Copper Wire = Free Power Generator — The 1920 Trick They Buried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpI0dponou4
https://www.youtube.com/@Mr.DudeExplained
In the graphic, we show the investment costs in Lithium-ion batteries versus Vanadium redox flow systems. In the graphic, we have shown the costs per megawatt hour (MWh), it should actually be the cost per kilowatt hour (KWh).
New energy storage technology on the verge of a breakthrough? | Transforming Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FPbDhJV0A
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
The idea was simple: why not use solar energy from Australia's sunny and spacious north to power Singapore, which has no space for renewables of its own? The project is part of a growing push to build 'interconnectors', high voltage cables that can transport clean energy over vast distances. But after it almost collapsed last year, the question of whether this technology can take off on a global scale remains.
#planeta #supergrid #solarpower
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Why the mega plan to send Australian solar to Asia (almost) flopped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42b6xJFUSss
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
- after doing some research I found out a lot of indigenous plants are good energy/fuel sources? Makes sense as plant growth requires energy creation and storage. It may give indigenous people a way of making money and give them employment which I know is a problem for many colonised countries? Their cultures are more aligned to living in unison with the environment more often. This gives them that opportunity?
This Plant Makes Jet Fuel. Grows In Deserts. Why Did The Oil Industry Kill It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv797BqXL3w
https://www.youtube.com/@NikPAF/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires/videos
is eucalyptus oil a good biofuel
Eucalyptus Biodiesel as an Alternative to Diesel Fuel: Preparation and Tests on DI Diesel Engine
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3364610/
Challenges and Opportunities of Low Viscous Biofuel—A Prospective Review
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10193552/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/organised-crime-background-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/05/art-imitating-lifehow-music-and_5.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/09/wikipedia-list-data-scan-pack-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/if-only-hiring-were-so-simple-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
- one interesting thing is that recycling is minimal in some pats of the community/world so we end up with huge waste dumps and lost materials. Very low tech methods can be used to reycle it and used to produce more fuel that they can use themselves or sell on to others who may find it useful?
what happens to waste oil in aboriginal communities
Consideration needs to be given to the issues faced by smaller communities as compared to larger communities. Larger communities generate greater volumes of domestic and construction waste, resulting in a heavier load on existing waste facilities, and engage more in mining, oil and gas production. Smaller communities on the other hand, including many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, face economic constraints to implementing industry standard recycling and resource recovery practices, with waste that could otherwise be recycled ending up in landfill. Fiscal constraints also often result in communities not correctly disposing of hazardous wastes, including asbestos, batteries, paint and clinical waste.
Smaller communities (500 residents or less) may use trenches to manage waste/rubbish disposal. This involves digging trenches ready for rubbish, with soil piled along the side to cover the rubbish once the trench is full. The number of trenches and their depth depends on the size of the community and for how long people intend to remain in that location. Clearly marked signs should show where rubbish should be dumped so rubbish is not left everywhere, and so that sewage is not dumped with rubbish.
Because the success of local waste management, recycling and reuse solutions largely depends on how these processes fit into broader initiatives and activities at the community level, participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members is crucial. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members are likely to want to participate in decision making about sites for landfill, the types and numbers of bins, and the placement of communal bins, which is often best done via information-sharing sessions.
Community involvement in decision making about waste management services and practices will vary for each community, and should be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health Workers (EHWs) and Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) are vital for ensuring that housing and built environment are kept healthy.
https://www.naccho.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NACCHO-submission-to-the-House-of-Reps-inquiry-into-waste-management-and-recycling-industries.pdf
https://www.anz.veolia.com/en-au/services/recycling-waste-services/hazardous-waste/liquid-hazardous-waste/oils
https://assets.sustainability.vic.gov.au/susvic/Factsheet-Waste-Motor-Cooking-Oil.pdf
what happens to waste hydraulic oil
https://www.cleanaway.com.au/waste-oil-collection
https://www.summerlandenvironmental.com.au/the-journey-of-waste-oil-collection/
https://zerowasteservices.au/blog/our-blog-1/post/waste-hydraulic-oil-disposal-137
https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/material/home/motor-oil
Introduction to Black Diesel - Alternative Fuels - Waste Oil - WMO - Nearly Free Fuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp2IHBsyoek
https://www.youtube.com/@NotSoGrandGarage
How to Clean Waste Oil for Black Diesel - WMO - Alternative Diesel - Fuel Prepping - Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7j3fKPvgcU
https://www.youtube.com/@PABioSupply
- if you think about it there's so much controlled free energy waiting around the planet. Hook up anything with movement to a KERS or dynamo and you have some extra free energy?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadmill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo
- you can line up sides of highways, railways, shipping lanes, etc... with wind based power generators since the direction is unidirectional for the most part. You can optimise propeller design based on this unlike conventional wind generators which have to be optimised for multiple directions often?
Generator is on the ground?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
The Huge, Weird Batteries of the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXo66rawpHQ
https://www.youtube.com/@business
https://firstlight.energy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93air_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control
- I've actually thought up putting tendril tech/dynamos in roads and building it into train/tram tracks and using a tailhook type arrangement to maximise energy transfer (this is basically the opposite idea of KERS system in cars and other vehicles, you store the energy in the road or rail/tram lines rather then the car or vehicle)? I've thought about using eddy currents and combining them with superconducting magnets as well to drive generators as well (inverting). You minimise drag by resorting to something to regenerative braking? You can obviously store the energy in various different types such as mechanical, electric generator, etc? Huge amounts of energy going to waste potentially?
Comparison of Kinetic Energy
At 320 km/h (Top Speed): A 16-car set has a kinetic energy of approximately 2.77 GJ.
Impact Force: At 300 km/h, the energy is sufficient to lift a 35-ton armored vehicle several hundred feet in the air.
Regenerative Braking: Shinkansen trains convert this high kinetic energy into electrical energy when slowing down, which is then fed back into the power grid.
Transforming a Shinkansen Train into a Power Station - Key Technologies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfhCU6C6NtM
https://www.youtube.com/@MitsubishiElectricChannel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_Aircraft_Launch_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATOBAR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOBAR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_braking
how much kinetic energy is required to drive a coal powered generator
The Coal Generator is a power generator building that generates power by burning Coal, Compacted Coal or Petroleum Coke and Water. It is the first fully automated power source the pioneer has access to and also the first source to use a mined resource.
One Coal Generator produces 75 MW at 100% clock speed.
https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Coal_Generator
Reference unit for the energetic evaluation of various energy carriers. 1 kg coal equivalent corresponds to a value specified as 7,000 kilocalories (7,000 kcal ~ 29.3 MJ ~ 8.141 kWh) and thus approximately the calorific value of hard coal which, depending on the type, amounts to between 29.3 MJ/kg (gas-flame coal) and 33.5 MJ/kg (anthracite).
https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/coal-equivalent/
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/02/repairing-and-maintaining-victa-2.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/08/servicingfixing-my-briggs-and-stratton.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_generator
It Can Save The World - The Simple Genius of Hot Air aka Stirling Engines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhT3MN2JXu8
https://www.youtube.com/@d4a
Spain is Living in 2050? Revolutionary 1 Stroke INNengine Analyzed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0_3qFmPUM
https://www.youtube.com/@d4a
I turn Fridge Compressor into 4 stroke Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk4RND5AbRc
https://www.youtube.com/@letslearnsomething30
Worlds Smallest Rotary Engine (30,000 RPM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFtGntbS8U
https://www.youtube.com/@WarpedPerception
Using a car alternator with a bike to power my home? How much energy can I produce?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp_VI6ujKHE
Producing lots of Manmade Energy! Bike Generator Upgrade!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHdIGt7bbyU
https://www.youtube.com/@greatscottlab
- notice where the tornadoes and floods are currently located and near perfect overlap with greenhouse gas emissions? The so called green revolution makes more sense with this context now? A lot of developed countries are trying to save their own skins and the overall cycle doesn't matter (overall amount of pollution released globally vs what happens locally)
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=missile+launch+allah+hu+akbar
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-04/new-vehicle-efficiency-standard-for-new-cars/103425022
global air speed map
https://globalwindatlas.info/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Wind_Atlas
greenhouse gas global map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-per
https://www.britannica.com/science/greenhouse-gas
global pollution map
https://www.wired.com/2010/09/nasa-maps-global-air-pollution/
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Envisat/Global_air_pollution_map_produced_by_Envisat_s_SCIAMACHY
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/92-of-the-world-s-population-lives-in-areas-with-unsafe-air-pollution-levels-this-interactive-map-shows-just-how-bad-the-problem-is/
correlation tornado vs wind speed
correlation tornado vs humidity level
global tornado map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_climatology
https://worldinmaps.com/weather-and-climate/tornado/
global flood map
https://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Archives/index.html
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/flood-risk-billion-people-climate-change-worsen/
Justdiggit: Restoring dry land in Tanzania | Global Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPJ9T4yAEGs
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
https://www.leadfoundation.org/
https://www.unccd.int/lead-foundation
tanzania anga ruka tree planting
https://ecologi.com/projects/planting-forest-gardens-in-tanzania
- there are some genuinely remarkable projects in many poorer parts of the world converting old bike alternators, washing machines, etc... into power generators?
The $50 Water Turbine -DIY, Portable, Powerful, and Open Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw
https://www.youtube.com/@OpenSourceLowTech
SUPER POWERFUL NEW GENERATION ALTERNATOR, WE ARE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD - 10KW ALTERNATOR MADE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYW9GESBbiU
ALTERNATOR PROJECT FOR THOSE WHO WANT HIGH POWER IN LOW RPM - 10KW GENERATOR CONSTRUCTION - part2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_bRewtELSA
BUILD YOUR OWN GENERATOR - FREE ELECTRICITY WITH WIND AND WATER POWER - ALTERNATOR CONSTRUCTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxq9wLPLpo8
https://www.youtube.com/@KerimAkarpat
Making Diy Wind Turbine || New Wind Turbine 2024 || 6 Motor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioGkiOLLMmI
https://www.youtube.com/@creativethinkideas
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=washing+machine+generator
Free Power for 16 years from a modified Washing Machine / Water Wheel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6TIWub6KU
https://www.youtube.com/@MartyT
Free power- How to convert an old washing machine into a water powered generator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ieFZI4-6K8
https://www.youtube.com/@AngryRambro
BIG WIND TURBINE 5 K.W.FROM LG WASHING MACHINE MOTOR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TIyxVUvyKE
https://www.youtube.com/@RioOrio
Using a car alternator with a bike to power my home? How much energy can I produce?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp_VI6ujKHE
https://www.youtube.com/@greatscottlab
- much more interesting projects in developing world then developed world? I suspect it's because they have more riding on the line then those in the developed world. Their livelihoods depend on their innovation succeeding. One interesting thing me is how better thought out and refined designs are from the developing world? They have more of what I call end to end scientists, engineers, academics, etc... who are able to develop a concept all the way from start to finish. I suspect if given the right opportunities they would beat US/Western equivalents?
Bangalore: India's Silicon Valley is drowning in trash | Global Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ2giAaHNYU
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
https://www.carbonlites.com/
Meet the Farmer Converting Waste from 7,000 Cows into Renewable Energy | Humanising Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPk51yxqi8
https://www.youtube.com/@BloomEnergy
https://www.bloomenergy.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_Energy
The Art Of Turning Human Waste Into Renewable Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-EKzVu4kxg
https://www.youtube.com/@thetesladomainofficial
How To Make Free Gas from Fruit And Vegetables waste | Bio gas plant |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZgnXQCp98
https://www.youtube.com/@NaveedZahirCreativity
How to Make Free Gas at Home | Free Butane Gas - Propane Gas | Liberty BioGas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULO4FDeeD5o
https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenTechnology_/videos
Kuni Safi Feature: Fueling Kenyan schools using clean energy briquettes from sugarcane waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpXxyHylAkc
https://www.youtube.com/@kenyaclimateinnovationcent7814
Beehive briquettes as clean cooking fuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siLI4D5kzz4
https://www.youtube.com/@smandal2604
Water harvesting in a changing climate in Zimbabwe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBiR6OtSwo
https://www.youtube.com/@Pelumzim
https://www.licella.com/
https://www.licella.com/about/our-story/
https://www.licella.com/about/our-people/
Have Australian scientists discovered a recycling solution to our plastic problem? | 7.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTgentcfzgg
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
Its CAT-HTR (catalytic hydrothermal reactor) technology uses pressurised hot water to break down long chain polymers into smaller bits and add hydrogen, producing a high-quality biocrude with 80 per cent to 90 per cent less carbon than oil and high energy intensity. This can be recycled into plastics or refined conventionally with the aim of increasing Australia and the world's dismal 10 per cent to 12 per cent mechanical recycling rates.
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/world-beating-australian-recycling-tech-debuts-in-uk-japan-20230622-p5dihx
How to Make a 10Kw 220V Free Energy Generator with a Car Alternator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsL78xmd77w
https://www.youtube.com/@thecrazychannelyt
Small but World Powerful German ElvWiS Powerful Home Wind Turbine 2026 Best Technology!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNi66rjqQDs
https://www.youtube.com/@FutureGalaxy
- if you use old/repurposed car/truck alternators to generate low scale hydroelectricity then you get 12V. 12V output is used a lot in camping which means there's lots of gear out there which can convert from 12V to 240V or 110V which is what most household appliances use?
Building Hydroelectric Water Wheel from Scratch for Powering an Off Grid Cabin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5teYg7t--wg
https://www.youtube.com/@AdventureAgents
- power source + electroliser = hydrogen? Since there's so much water floating around on Earth and the heaps of energy to harvest you can turn it into an endless power source? There are even rockets which run on mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
rocket fuel hydrogen and oxygen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_propellant
https://rexarc.com/blog/a-quick-guide-to-rocket-fuel/
Making a Simple Hydrogen Generator from Washers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY08xO-_11w
https://www.youtube.com/@maciejnowakprojects
4000 Watts hydrogen generator HHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-M7N4ioUlI
https://www.youtube.com/@albertnario4877
DIY Hydrogen/Oxygen Generators From Grocery Store Items (HHO Fuel Cells & Split Cell Electrolysis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85OX6yEwE0
https://www.youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/got-gas-is-white-hydrogen-the-magic-bullet/ar-BB1jSOcn
- one thing I've thought about is a neutral bouyancy boat/vessel that floats on the surface of the sea but is tethered to the sea floor? There are wheels/generators on the side? A ratcheting mechanism means you can control direction of a dynamo/generator and convert wave the energy into electrical energy. Basically limitless energy? You can send the electricity back to land via cable or else broadcast it via microwave? It will definitely create energy only question is yield?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcheting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(standard)
highest differential tide levels worldwide
The typical tidal range in the open ocean is about 1 metre (3 feet) – mapped in blue and green at right. Mean ranges near coasts vary from near zero to 11.7 metres (38.4 feet),[4] with the range depending on the volume of water adjacent to the coast, and the geography of the basin the water sits in. Larger bodies of water have higher ranges, and the geography can act as a funnel amplifying or dispersing the tide.[5]
The world's largest mean tidal range of 11.7 metres (38.4 feet) occurs in the Bay of Fundy, Canada (more specifically, at Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia).[4][6] The next highest, of 9.75 metres (32.0 feet), is at Ungava Bay, also in Canada,[4][7] and the next, of 9.60 metres (31.5 feet), in the Bristol Channel, between England and Wales.[4] The highest predicted extreme (not mean) range is 17.0 metres (55.8 feet), in the Bay of Fundy.[7] The maximum range in the Bristol Channel is 15 metres (49 feet).[8] The fifty coastal locations with the largest ranges worldwide are listed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States.[4]
Some of the smallest tidal ranges occur in the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Caribbean Seas. A point within a tidal system where the tidal range is almost zero is called an amphidromic point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_range
I build 220v electric Hydropower dam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OfBqbzjeWw
https://www.youtube.com/@kinghomemade
Free Power for 16 years from a modified Washing Machine / Water Wheel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6TIWub6KU
https://www.youtube.com/@MartyT
Free power- How to convert an old washing machine into a water powered generator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ieFZI4-6K8
https://www.youtube.com/@AngryRambro
North Wales 1.5Kw Hydroelectric Turgo Turbine Instalation
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEZ2hvCDKUpEvvlrYbEDPYiRqdfGO7-c2
https://www.youtube.com/@KrisHarbour
DIY Micro hydro power-Off Grid Day 35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ZUQ5NrPro
https://www.youtube.com/@offgridscotland
Free electricity from water, Build generator install electrical system for hut Bushcraft, Off Grid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8y54IdWPo4
https://www.youtube.com/@thanhtrieutv6231
Off Grid Micro Hydro - The Dream System!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyWQ3o6plY8
https://www.youtube.com/@Gridlessness
Motorbike Alternators With Wind & Water Turbines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLVcbd0C9Ns
The $50 Water Turbine -DIY, Portable, Powerful, and Open Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw
https://www.youtube.com/@OpenSourceLowTech
DIY Hydro Generator! Build and Experiments!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3PtkeMqOA
https://www.youtube.com/@ThePostApocalypticInventor
I turn Bike Coil into GENERATOR || 220 volts~ DIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwcslWywtAI
https://www.youtube.com/@Mr_WELD
22 year-old Emeka Nelson builds a hydro-power portable generator and
The Mgbanwe C12 a machine that converts non-biodegradable wastes like plastic, waterproof, nylon etc into a crude like refineable oil that can split further into petrol, kerosene, diesel, some other heavy oils and paraffin.
A residual waste accumulated in the whole process are used to produce best form of interlocking stones.
For more information log on to http://www.channelstv.com
Eye Witness: Young Nigerian Fabricates Machine That Converts Wastes To Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l8u_6qHDXs
https://www.youtube.com/@ChannelsTelevision
- ~140km range compressed air prototype car built using materials available from local hardware stores? Mechanical and compressed gas energy storage more efficient then electro-chemical based storage? Flywheels can use gearbox/transmission systems to convert between potential and kinetic energy/motion?
The Mechanical Battery Explained - A Flywheel Comeback?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2U7bDNcPM
https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedMF
"The Power In These Flywheels Scares The Pants Off Me" | Savage Builds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XffkqfymSXc
https://www.youtube.com/@DiscoveryAustralia
Inventions
Howell is remembered less for his wartime achievements than for his innovations in ordnance. He invented the self-steering torpedo — the "Howell torpedo" — and also patented torpedo launchers, gyroscopes for the guidance of torpedoes, explosive shells, a disappearing gun carriage for shore defense emplacement, and an amphibious lifeboat.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_Howell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_torpedo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
https://www.stornetic.com/our-technology/enwheel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_R18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Hybrid_Power#Williams_Hybrid_Power
https://www.ausgrid.com.au/
https://hornsdalepowerreserve.com.au/
https://beaconpower.com/carbon-fiber-flywheels/
https://amberkinetics.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_energy_abbreviations
Driving On Compressed Air: The Little-Known Compressed Air Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFoYPj3Ntzc
https://www.youtube.com/@NewMind
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/reza-alizadeh-evrin-47731b198
https://ontariotechu.ca/experts/feas/ibrahim-dincer.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Medhurst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_M%C3%A9karski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed-air_energy_storage
https://www.engineair.com.au/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_motor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Development_International
http://mdi.lu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIRPod
https://zeropollutionmotors.us/
most compressible liquid list
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Tables/compress.html
most compressible gas list
COMPRESSIBLE GAS
Nitrogen
Hydrogen-bearing gas
Air
Helium
Oxygen
Acid hydrocarbon gas
Coke oven gas
Associated petroleum gas
Natural gas
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrocarbon process gas
Fuel gas
Flare gas
Refrigerants
Chlorine
Methyl Chloride
Other gases (general industrial use)
https://compressormash.ru/en/products/compressible_gas/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressibility_factor
Can this solve the energy storage problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXMVqUjRPj4
https://www.youtube.com/@theclimateClub
How Compressed Air Batteries are FINALLY Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS05y9mQgbw
https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedTechnology
Compressing air to reach net zero. A 'revolutionary' innovation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhNgG3QDS-g
https://www.youtube.com/@JustHaveaThink
- places with regular extremes in temperature (like some deserts which are extremely hot in the day and get very cold at night or have a very high surface temperate but a very low temperature below the ground) are the perfect environment for perpetual energy machines? Spacecraft and some hot water systems basically use passively driven thermal control systems that work based on principal of phase change to keep things in a loop. If you just insert some dynamos somewhere in there you have as close to a perpetual energy machine that you can get? Relatively easy to build as well as you deal with the practical aspects of it like possible leakage, efficiency, etc... If you use superconductors you can drive the yield up?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steam+engines+to+drive+dynamo
How to make a steam engine from a car shock absorber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9wV5sOX4jM
https://www.youtube.com/@NiceCreation1
The Powerful Promise of Earth's Harshest Places | Lei Zhang | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0xn1C6ALvo
https://www.youtube.com/@TED
The Desalination Process that MAKES Electricity - Too Good To Be True?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P58daW9Dg34
https://www.youtube.com/@TwoBitDaVinci
what is temperature 10ft below gobi desert
https://www.quora.com/On-average-how-deep-would-we-have-to-dig-in-a-subtropical-desert-like-Sahara-or-Gobi-desert-to-get-an-underground-temperature-of-around-100-C
Desert climate
Descending air north and south of the tropical zone produces almost permanent areas of high pressure across the subtropics. This produces almost cloud-free skies virtually year-round, giving rise to deserts.
Desert climates are extremely dry, and their cloudless skies lead to large temperature swings. Deserts have some of the hottest temperatures on Earth, but many will drop below freezing at night.
Though normally associated with hot, sandy environments, cold deserts are also widespread. The Gobi Desert of east Asia is one example, where annual average temperatures can be below 0 °C.
Whether hot or cold, deserts pose great challenges for the plants and animals that live there, which must adapt to extreme, prolonged water deficits.
https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/climate-explained/climate-zones
22 year-old Emeka Nelson builds a hydro-power portable generator and
The Mgbanwe C12 a machine that converts non-biodegradable wastes like plastic, waterproof, nylon etc into a crude like refineable oil that can split further into petrol, kerosene, diesel, some other heavy oils and paraffin.
A residual waste accumulated in the whole process are used to produce best form of interlocking stones.
For more information log on to http://www.channelstv.com
Eye Witness: Young Nigerian Fabricates Machine That Converts Wastes To Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l8u_6qHDXs
https://www.youtube.com/@ChannelsTelevision
https://theafricandreamsl.com/nigerian-innovator-without-formal-education-develops-water-powered-generator/
https://theinterview.ng/2019/08/27/my-best-friends-death-inspired-me-emeka-nelson-inventor-of-hydroelectric-generator/
Teenage Zimbabwean Inventor Unveils Another Water Powered Generator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=246Iytrl3VU
https://www.youtube.com/@ZimTechGuy
https://www.tiktok.com/@mchenrydhliwayo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season
which areas of earth have the most extreme temperature variations
Global Patterns of Hottest, Coldest, and Extreme Diurnal Variability on Earth
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/102/9/BAMS-D-20-0325.1.xml
The place on Earth with the widest recorded temperature range (difference between the highest and lowest recorded surface air temperatures) is Verkhoyansk, Siberia, Russia — tied closely with Oymyakon, Yakutia, Russia.
Key facts
Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon are both in northeastern Siberia and regularly experience extreme cold in winter and surprisingly warm summer highs.
Verkhoyansk records: −67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) in February 1892 and +38.0 °C (+100.4 °F) in July 2020 — a span of about 105.8 °C (190.4 °F).
Oymyakon records: −67.7 °C (−89.9 °F) in 1933 and +34.6 °C (+94.3 °F) in July 2010 — a span around 102.3 °C (183.6 °F). Other sources sometimes cite slightly different maxima, keeping the two towns effectively tied.
These continental interior sites show the largest annual and absolute ranges because of extreme Arctic winter radiative cooling, very stable, cold high-pressure air, and strong summer continental heating with long daylight in Arctic summer.
https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-place-on-earth-with-the-most-wide-range-of-temperatures
https://www.worldatlas.com/climate/10-countries-with-some-of-the-biggest-temperature-swings.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records
https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/climatic-extremes
- high drag environment such as the sea are your friend. For ages other people (and I) been thinking of systems to recover energy in 3D particularly high energy systems like tornadoes and lightning. Basic terraforming will allow things to become more predicable and less violent (see elsewhere in this post). This allows you to use wind energy and water harvesting technologies to store energy as well as fresh water. People forget that you only need a tiny bit of water to kick start "dead land"? Strongly suspect that well crafted mechnical windmills may be enough to purify water and pump water via reverse osmosis a useful amount of water inland. Make the valves/piping operate like human human vessels to allow for more equitable distribution of water. Preference is for passively managed switched systems (the body has many different types of gates/switches to help manage things) rather then centrally managed to make things easier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-irrigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_chasing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuously_variable_transmission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand-gated_ion_channel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reflexes
do tornadoes travel in a predictable areas
tornadoes energy recovery
https://www.energycentral.com/renewables/post/controlled-tornadoes-could-fix-energy-and-climate-problems-l1mWJne5M84fAqD
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141029625013902
https://www.preventionweb.net/news/tornadoes-and-more-what-spring-can-bring-power-grid
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387800166_Controlled_tornadoes_could_fix_climate_and_energy_problems
wind speeds at most beaches
https://www.australiansurfingadventures.com/blog/where-do-i-surf-understanding-surf-reports/
https://aussiewindwall.com.au/blogs/news/australian-coastal-winds-explained-a-camper-s-state-by-state-guide
wind speeds middle east coastline
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388938783_Evaluating_the_Wind_Potential_of_Coastal_and_Inland_Locations_in_Oman_for_Power_Generation
The peculiar wind and wave climatology of the Arabian Gulf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0029801823025428
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/06/portrait-of-a-kansas-town-that-went-all-in-on-clean-energy-after-a-devastating-tornado/
wind speed mediterranean sea
https://www.sailogy.com/en/blog/winds-in-the-mediterranean-sea/
https://www.windyweek.com/weathermaps/places/Mediterranean_Sea?lang=en
- I've thought of using the entire sea as a giant battery by using it as an electrolyte source. I've thought about interfacing with cells for a long time as a way of producing energy. This is a material version of that but still inefficient and not well known
🔬 THE SCIENCE: Plants release organic compounds through roots during photosynthesis. Soil bacteria break down these compounds, releasing electrons — captured by electrodes as usable electricity. A 2019 MIT study confirmed one square meter of plant-covered soil generates enough electricity to power a LED lamp continuously.
No toxic batteries. No mining. No infrastructure. Just roots, soil, and bacteria working as nature designed.
⚡ THE SUPPRESSION: Between 2014-2020, three separate research teams pursuing plant electricity at scale lost funding simultaneously. All three had energy company donors. None received government grants. The patent landscape tells the story: 47 patents on plant-based electricity exist — all owned by energy corporations, none developed for public use.
💰 THE ECONOMICS:
Grid electricity: $1,400/year average American household
Plant electricity system: $200 one-time setup, $0 ongoing
Energy company revenue lost per household: $1,400/year forever
Multiply by 130 million U.S. households. That's $182 billion annually — gone.
📚 SOURCES: Strik, David P.B.T.L., et al. Environmental Science & Technology 42 (2008) Timmers, Ruud A., et al. Electrochimica Acta 72 (2012) Wetser, Koen, et al. Applied Energy 137 (2015) Helder, Marjolein. "Design criteria for the Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell." Wageningen University PhD Thesis (2012)
8 Plants That Produce Electricity From Soil — Why Did Power Companies Bury This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDEO2OEBXYo
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDStoires/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@DTDHistoryRadio/videos
https://scispace.com/papers/green-electricity-production-with-living-plants-and-bacteria-2l4q6azr0f
Long-term performance of a plant microbial fuel cell with Spartina anglica
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20127236/
- would be nice to clean up the oceans and get some fuel/food/fertiler at the same time? If you can track all the waste in the world and recycle it into something would be interesting?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
The Amish Fuel System That Works in ALL 50 States — Big Oil Paid to Bury This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfbD9YEwQeU
https://www.youtube.com/@EliYoderSecrets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Oil
https://www.amazon.com.au/Forbidden-Fuel-History-Power-Alcohol/dp/0803228082
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Forbidden_Fuel.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement
does algae contain oil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel
Studies display that some species of algae have the ability to produce up to 60% of their dry weight in the form of oil. Because the cells grow in aqueous suspension, where they have more effective access to water, CO2 and nutrients are capable of producing large amounts of biomass and usable oil in either high rate algal ponds or photobioreactors (Table 2).
Algae Oil: A Sustainable Renewable Fuel of Future
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026879/
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1565/algal-oil
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/algae-fuel-green-crude
global algae bloom tracker
https://hab.whoi.edu/maps/regions-world-distribution/
https://data.hais.ioc-unesco.org/
- like others, I've thought about whether or not you can devices that float in the sky indefinitely to harvest energy as well as water. I'm in favour of airships or balloons which are naturally lighter then air and attaching to tethers on the ground and just harvesting energy from them. The yields are the obvious issues in whether or not this is realistic or "worth it"?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/nsa-blimp-spied-in-the-united-states/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_(aeronautics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC
wind energy buffeting generator
https://projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/success-stories/all/wobbling-wind-bladeless-alternative-turbines
https://inhabitat.com/could-this-giant-straw-be-the-solution-to-the-problems-with-wind-turbines/
https://www.solazone.com.au/wind-generators/aerofortis-wind-generators/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dark+knight+skyhook
The Dark Knight - #4 - Sky Hook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B0Gh8slES8
https://x.company/projects/makani/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makani_(company)
https://github.com/google/makani
https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/bigquery-public-datasets/makani-logs
do fast animals migrate farthest
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/natures-most-impressive-animal-migrations/
https://www.treehugger.com/greatest-animal-migrations-4869293
https://www.animalfunfacts.net/animal-records/206-animals-that-travel-the-furthest.html
This Bird Stayed in the Air for 10 Months Straight
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m3SoF6UxEzc
https://www.youtube.com/@AstralEchoesTV/shorts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(bird)
- so many different possibilities even if you just use bacteria as building blocks for other stuff? Just think of elements, molecules,compounds, etc... as inputs/food/fuel sources available from anywhere and then use relevant bacteria to convert it into what you want. Just focus in on working with rather then against environment? Once you intermesh them into larger more complex groups you can do so much more like microchips as part of a computer?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=project+hail+mary+talking+to+rocky
Rocky Introduction Scene | PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) Movie CLIP 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-NVFrxQDA
https://www.youtube.com/@JoBloMovieClips
Rocky the Alien Visits Grace' Spaceship - PROJECT HAIL MARY Movie Clip (2026) Ryan Gosling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TUzmeHT0AY
https://www.youtube.com/@EntertainmentAccess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-blooded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm-blooded
do any bacteria produce petroleum
In the study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Warwick and MIT, and published today (5 October) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, the scientists measured the amount of hydrocarbons in a range of laboratory-grown cyanobacteria and used the data to estimate the amount produced in the oceans.
Although each individual cell contains minuscule quantities of hydrocarbons, the researchers estimated that the amount produced by two of the most abundant cyanobacteria in the world – Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus – is more than two million tonnes in the ocean at any one time. This indicates that these two groups alone produce between 300 and 800 million tonnes of hydrocarbons per year, yet the concentration at any time in unpolluted areas of the oceans is tiny, thanks to other bacteria that break down the hydrocarbons as they are produced.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bacteria-in-the-worlds-oceans-produce-millions-of-tonnes-of-hydrocarbons-each-year
https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/high-octane-bacteria-could-ease-pain-at-the-pump/
Microbial‐based motor fuels: science and technology
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3815883/
are there any bacteria that give off electrons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bacteria
Electroactive Bacteria in Natural Ecosystems and Their Applications in Microbial Fuel Cells for Bioremediation: A Review
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10263229/
are any bacteria which produce endothermic reactions
https://www.science-revision.co.uk/A-level_energetics_enthalpy_changes.html
Exothermic and endothermic reactions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zb7wwnb#z8shhcw
Extremely thermophilic microorganisms as metabolic engineering platforms for production of fuels and industrial chemicals
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4633485/
which bacteria cause endothermic reactions
Chapter 4Bacterial Metabolism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7919/
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/engineering/engineering-thermodynamics/endothermic-reactions/
which bacteria grow in straight lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_cellular_morphologies
- at the back of my mind is whether you can turn the world's oceans into an enormous electrolyte pool (stick two electrodes into the ocean and see what happens)? What damage could it cause? Would it be viable/worth it? What would the power level be? Even if the yield is terrible there would have to be some sort of yield since the ocean is so large?
REAPower: Electricity from brine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY32O5cy4BQ
https://www.youtube.com/@wiprenewableenergies4601
https://www.reapower.eu/
https://www.reapower.eu/project-scope/reverse-electrodyalisis-technology.html
http://www.red-heat-to-power.eu/
Kenya: Sugar cane as a green fuel | Global Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5lg9-CfhM
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
salt water battery experiment
Salt Water Battery Science Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdCBoRW-J2I
https://www.youtube.com/@Science.Buddies
can you use the sea as electrolyte
√ The Ocean as an Electrolyte Explained in Detail with Examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ageXrt88-z0
https://www.youtube.com/@iitutorcom
Why Salt Water may be the Future of Batteries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm2hNNA4lvM
https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedMF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
How the Ocean Could be the Future of Energy Storage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd1fTJ-csio
https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedMF
https://www.futurebridge.com/industry/perspectives-energy/buoyancy-energy-storage-technology/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Energy_at_Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoyancy
https://insights.globalspec.com/article/8869/new-energy-storage-prototype-uses-seawater-and-compressed-air
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_accumulator
https://www.iee.fraunhofer.de/en/topics/stensea.html
https://oceangrazer.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Grazer
World's Largest Lemon Battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1D-fZP8qJk
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober
This diy Salt Water Battery is Rechargeable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDcrXKSHozI
https://www.youtube.com/@aufoslab
- for a I've been thinking of storing energy (light, gas, water, electricity, etc...) in natural cycles. Day/night, seasonal, and other cycles. I've also been thinking storing energy in alternate forms. Humans think primarily in terms electricity and electrical storage nowadays. It's an obsession for them. There are alternatives obviously. You mostly want long term storage with high capacity but flexible ability to manage energy discharge. It opens up enormous flexibility if you don't think in terms of existing paradigms which exist in many existing indutries:
= phase change storage (watch how properties of materials change radically as they change type such as water when it's liquid, solid, gas)
= chemical storage (interfacing different materials with one another)
= biological storage (interface with biological cells)
= physical/KERS style storage (think in terms of springs and flywheels which have been used in high performance vehicles such as Formula 1)
= thermal storage (molten salt and composites)
= electrical storage (batteries)
Atomic Africa: Clean Energy's Dirty Secrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWC5jxmXEB4
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
The Huge, Weird Batteries of the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXo66rawpHQ
https://www.youtube.com/@business
https://formenergy.com/about/
https://www.youtube.com/@formenergyinc/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_Energy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelie-kharey-2144b2aa
Flywheel Battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhu3s1ut3wM
https://www.youtube.com/tomstantonengineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_charcoal_(medication)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_rate_model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_V6_Hybrid_Formula_One_engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-AMG_ONE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat_recovery_unit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
is chemical or electrical storage more efficient
What is the most efficient form of stored energy?
fats
Conclusion: In conclusion, our body stores energy in different forms, such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Out of these three, fats are the most efficient form of stored energy, as they store more than twice the energy density of both carbohydrates and proteins.
https://energy5.com/the-lowdown-on-body-energy-storage-which-form-is-the-most-efficient
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/is-chemical-energy-the-most-efficient-form-of-storage.18178/
https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsbatteries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
- current focus is on electricity but I think we should store any which way which works, convenient, efficient, etc... What bugs me is that most human technology relies on intermediate steps of converting something into heat which creates steam from water which turns giant turbine which creates electricity. Nuclear impulse engines are supposed to be several times faster then standard rocket engines. Would it be the same if we human technology were made more efficient? Imagine how strange and inefficient bio-organics would be if it relied on all these intermediate steps?
Why This Liquid That Stores Solar Energy for Years Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzqLBL-m8I
https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedMF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliostat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
https://www.yef.org.au/about-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt
https://www.heliogen.com/
https://www.woodside.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside_Energy
substances which produce electricity when heated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seebeck_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
https://www.science.org/content/article/cheap-material-converts-heat-electricity
https://news.mit.edu/2018/topological-materials-turning-heat-electricity-0117
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_cell
nuclear drive engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_propulsion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
How Mechanical Flywheels are SAVING The Grid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eWcwWGvswE
https://www.youtube.com/@TwoBitDaVinci
https://www.quinteqenergy.com/
https://www.torus.co/torus-flywheel
How 40-Ton Spinning Wheels Are Saving the Power Grid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z95t-f-0IjI
https://www.youtube.com/@UndecidedTechnology
- I repair stuff lots of stuff for fun/as a hobby. If you think about it, lots of human technology is really wierd, crude, ineffiecient, and works against nature at all levels if you understand it? There are so many ways to do things more efficiently if you're willing to move beyond current paradigms? So many transmission losses everywhere. Think of petrol electrical generator? Chemical energy in form of petrol, combustion engine, mechanical energy drives dynamo which converts into electrical energy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence
https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Alchemy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power
Why Ancient Chinese Homes Stayed Warm at -50°C (-58°F) While Modern Houses Freeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfwubS78RlA
https://www.youtube.com/@SilkRoadDiaries25
Fix 90% of Briggs lawn mower not starting problems. Easy repair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpr9b0Qyfds
https://www.youtube.com/@Foxboss9
Troybilt TB25 Full Teardown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggJC18vjUV8
https://www.youtube.com/@hanksgarage_
https://www.youtube.com/@RestorationStation/videos
Troy-Bilt Trimmer Won't Start-Fixed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx5VszQkwFI
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGreasyShopRag
How a torque wrench works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BtXgE6NSYE
https://www.youtube.com/@Deconstructed_Animations
How petrol pumps know when to turn themselves off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT2KhJ8W-Kg
https://www.youtube.com/@SteveMould
The Story Of Fuel Injection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0RIGWUnVFc
https://www.youtube.com/@NewMind
How Electric Motors Work - 3 phase AC induction motors ac motor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59HBoIXzX_c
https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringMindset
How a Lithium Ion Battery Actually Works // Photorealistic // 16 Month Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-1psMHSpKs
https://www.youtube.com/@thelimitingfactor
20 Incredible Pedal Powered Vehicles You Must See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpTm6VQc08
https://www.youtube.com/@EyeCatching_Tech
Tesla's Giga Press Just Made the Entire Car Industry Look Obsolete — Here's How It Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh_jl4FK5-Q
https://www.youtube.com/@TheTeslaBreakdown
- for a very long time I've been thinking of building multitype energy harvesters that can be networked and then used to supply energy to a home, town, city, etc... An energy distribution system. We'll use inspiration network routing protocols and from the human body. End points harvest enough energy for monitoring systems to connect back into the grid and network and supply information about themselves. This allows them to automatically create new clusters/nodes and route power/resources in ways that you immediately need. The reason for biological architecture and why there are so many connections for various human cells will make sense if you view it from this context. You need the alternate connections as each serves a different purpose much like different wires have different capacities for communication and energy transfer
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/rat-backgroundresearch-professional-rat.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/08/medical-surgical-procedure-videos.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_protocol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSIX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
How to Fix Renewable Energy's Hidden Infrastructure Problem | WSJ Pro Perfected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq-y-wiZduE
https://www.youtube.com/@wsj
The World Needs Supergrids, But There's a Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN1mPBQd7fY
https://www.youtube.com/@business
smart grids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grids_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%E2%80%93electrical_analogies
Energy storage is a huge sector, and growing at a rapid pace - largely due to the mass rollout of renewable energy. Lithium-ion batteries have a part to play in all of this, but they come with their own set of problems, including cost and the use of rare earth materials. This is why I am so interested in thermal batteries - using heat to store energy instead of chemical bonds. Antora energy have an incredible new way of doing this with solid carbon blocks and thermo-photovoltaic panels. So, I got in contact with them!
Why Solid Carbon is the Future of Energy Storage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDly9pjSJg
https://www.youtube.com/@ZirothTech
https://www.antora.com/
biogas lamps
https://energypedia.info/wiki/Biogas_Appliances
https://nideco.no/nideco-online-shop
https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/biogas-lamp.html
biogas lights
Can biogas be used for lighting? Yes, it can but it is inefficient to use mantle lamps. For that we recommend you use the gas to run our Bio DC generator. This will simultaneously charge automotive batteries which in turn will power lights, radio, TV, charge phones etc.
https://biogas.co.ke/faqs/
saltwater light
saltwater powered light wikipedia
http://www.odbornecasopisy.cz/en/post/this-lamp-runs-on-a-glass-of-water-and-two-teaspoons-of-salt--1044
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic_power
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-salt-water-lamp
waterlight
https://www.waterlight.com.co/
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/04/23/waterlight-edina-wunderman-thompson-colombia/
- what's interesting is that humans have mastered prediction of tidal movement but not air flow. It's obviously that so much more going on up top/above ground but remember what I said about many winds being predicable on Earth especially in the Equatorial area (it's like a giant wind tunnel if you look at it carefully). If you reshape some mountains or even create artificial mountains can you redirect cloud flows and stabilise weather patterns?
The entire global tidal stream industry has produced less electricity than a single offshore wind farm generates in ten days. After two decades of development and hundreds of millions in investment, roughly 35MW of tidal stream capacity has been installed worldwide — total. Two modern offshore wind turbines exceed the capacity of the world's largest tidal array. Yet the underlying physics is compelling, the engineering is proven, and the technology may be exactly where offshore wind was 25 years ago. This report delivers the full engineering breakdown: how the turbines work, what they've actually produced, what they cost, who's gone bankrupt, and whether the numbers add up
This Hidden Ocean Tech Could Power the World | The Ocean's $Trillion Energy Secret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaL2YGFm7kU
https://www.youtube.com/@TheForgeEmpire
tide prediction accuracy
https://ntslf.org/tides/about-tides/tides-faq
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides01_intro.html
Predicting tides
We predict tides at more than 700 locations around Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.
Tide tables give the height and time of tide changes for more than a year into the future. We also predict tidal streams at a few places. Our predictions are made using computer programs that take into account:
the ocean's response to astronomical (gravitational) forces
average seasonal changes.
Tide predictions are very reliable but don't always match the actual water level. This is due to the irregular effects of changing weather and ocean circulation.
https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/learn-and-explore/marine-knowledge-centre/tides-and-sea-level
Nikola Tesla's Hidden Invention Just Got Rebuilt – And It Works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogbAAKoKc7U
https://www.youtube.com/@TheForgeEmpire
https://www.youtube.com/@renewable_energy/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@thelibertyengine/videos
This Genius Propeller Will Change Transport Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGy8jvf-DZ0
https://www.youtube.com/@ZirothTech/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
where are the highest average temperatures in the world
where are the highest average wind speeds in the world
https://www.worldwalks.com/walking-holidays/windiest-places-planet-earth/
https://globalwindatlas.info/en/
11. St John's, Canada, 98mph
10. Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, 127mph
9. Cape Blanco, Oregon, USA, 145mph
8. Wellington, New Zealand, 154mph
7. Shetland Islands, UK, 173mph
6. Aviemore, UK, 173mph
5. Mount Everest, China and Nepal, 175mph
4. Kirkwood, California, USA, 209mph
3. Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA, 231mph
3. Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA, 231mph
2. Barrow Island, Australia, 253mph
2. Barrow Island, Australia, 253mph
1. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, 302mph
https://www.loveexploring.com/gallerylist/96749/blown-away-the-windiest-places-on-earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-in-glass_thermometer
Stop Stockpiling Batteries - This WWI Hand Crank Generator Powers Everything And Never Dies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZwBXbO7Nw
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-284
How Electrostatic Motors are Breaking All the Rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44WM5J6AcHo
https://www.youtube.com/@ZirothTech
1851 There Really Is Free Energy Everywhere - Electrostatic Motors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AThJ8qxVdGo
https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkingandTinkering
They Generated Electricity Without Fuel in the 1800s — And the Machines Are Still Running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4shgPBx9bxI
https://www.youtube.com/@InvisibleGrid
Building a DIY 1kW Generator - 52V! Homemade Power & How It Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmMO7Ew2eJU
Breakthrough: Hydrogen Finally Cheaper Than Gas?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le4tH9qHjrw
https://www.youtube.com/@GermanScienceGuy
Building a Mechanical Battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmT1GzRXWI
https://www.youtube.com/@TomStantonEngineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics
- Earth winds have fairly predictable major patterns that are often occur due the the natural spin of the Earth, it's interactions with the undulations of the land, temperature gradients/differences between lower and upper parts of the atmosphere? Tornadoes, cyclones, typhoons, etc... do follow patterns that are predicable if you look closer. Notice how the particular winds interact with mountain ranges and flat land? Reshape them, break things up, and you can can change the weather and reduce tornado frequency? Plant forests or place cities in particular locations to moderate the temperature gradient and reduce likelihood of tornadoes for a given area? Easier then dropping atomic weapons into tornadoes to dissipate them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_tunnel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_Oscillation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_winds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuser_(automotive)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_dynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_transition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure
tornadoes locations
https://www.wunderground.com/prepare/tornado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_winds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley
artificially made mountain
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/artificial-mountains-slag-heaps-concrete
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artificial_hills
https://landscape-mtx.com/en/artificial-mountain-and-fake-rock-mountain/
https://www.wheelandanchor.ca/we-love-mountains-so-much-that-were-trying-to-build-new-ones/
https://www.archdaily.com/40755/the-berg-the-biggest-artificial-mountain-in-the-world
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/tim-the-yowie-man/2025/02/the-baffling-boulders-of-black-mountain/
temperature difference between top and bottom of tornado
https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/tornadoes/
https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Meteorology_and_Climate_Science/Practical_Meteorology_(Stull)/15%3A_Thunderstorm_Hazards/15.03%3A_Section_4-
https://wgntv.com/weather/whats-the-lowest-temperature-at-which-a-tornado-has-formed/
are tornadoes common in the amazon rainforest area
https://www.attoproject.org/what-role-do-downdrafts-play-for-turbulence-regimes-in-the-amazon/
North America is the global hotspot for tornadoes, fueled by elevated terrain of the Rockies to the west and a source of warm, moist air from the subtropical ocean to the south. This conventional wisdom argues that South America, with the Andes to the west and Amazon basin to the north, should have a "tornado alley" at least as active as North America. Yet South America has frequent severe thunderstorms but relatively few tornadoes. Here we show that conventional wisdom is missing an important ingredient specific to tornadoes: a smooth equatorward surface. Using global climate model experiments with a smoothed Amazon land surface, we show that the rough Amazon rainforest surface suppresses tornado potential over central South America by reducing the near-surface vertical wind shear necessary for tornado formation. Severe thunderstorm potential is high and is not sensitive to Amazon surface roughness. Results are shown robust for any midlatitude landmass, using idealized experiments with a simplified continent and mountain range. Hence, if the Amazon surface were smoother, South America could possess a tornado hotspot at least as intense as North America's "tornado alley". Our findings demonstrate how changes in large-scale land cover can alter patterns of tornado activity on Earth.
Rough Amazon Suppresses South American Tornado Potential
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFM.A42F..06L/abstract
https://grokipedia.com/page/South_American_Tornado_Alley
Upstream surface roughness and terrain are strong drivers of contrast in tornado potential between North and South America
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315425121
are tornadoes common in the sahara desert area
Africa
Tornado events have been recorded in several Southern African countries (Botswana, Swaziland and Namibia) and possibly over Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana. No tornadoes have been reported in Northern Africa although they do occur across the Mediterranean Sea in Italy and Spain.
A review of worldwide occurrence of tornadoes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167610598000099
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_storm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_climatology
typhoon global map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone
https://databayou.com/tropical/cyclones.html
https://www.britannica.com/science/tropical-cyclone/Location-and-patterns-of-tropical-cyclones
- even if you don't master sub-cellular engineering, sub-nanotechnology, move beyond the Standard Model of physics, etc... there's so many simple options for energy storage and generation on Earth? Massive toolkit if you think about it carefully
Solar Without Panels, Storage Without Batteries - EXOWATT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQCDXK_sXwk
https://www.youtube.com/@TwoBitDaVinci
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exowatt
The Ancient Greek Fire Starter That Works Underwater - No Matches, No Spark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_aoVseiks
https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_oxide
The Only Chemical The Nazis Were Scared Of
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0wmbxN9n93Y
https://www.youtube.com/@ItssImpossible/shorts
They Turned Air Into Usable Power in the 1800s — And the Hardware Remains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nStsHex6g-U
https://www.youtube.com/@InvisibleGrid/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@TartarianAtlas/videos
which materials discharge electrons the more heat you provide
Thermionic emission is crucial to the operation of a variety of electronic devices and can be used for electricity generation (such as thermionic converters and electrodynamic tethers) or cooling. Thermionic vacuum tubes emit electrons from a hot cathode into an enclosed vacuum and may steer those emitted electrons with applied voltage. The hot cathode can be a metal filament, a coated metal filament, or a separate structure of metal or carbides or borides of transition metals. Vacuum emission from metals tends to become significant only for temperatures over 1,000 K (730 °C; 1,340 °F). Charge flow increases dramatically with temperature.
The term thermionic emission is now also used to refer to any thermally-excited charge emission process, even when the charge is emitted from one solid-state region into another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermionic_emission
Old wind turbines are piling up. Here's how to revive them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbjWWM4a4Vk
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
which materials produce high heat from friction reactions but don't wear out quickly
https://acostafence.com/what-materials-resist-wear-and-tear-the-best/
https://www.protecfriction.com/low-friction-materials-and-advanced-mechanical-systems/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractory_metals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_pad
Turning Grass into Gasoline: Green Fuel Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCGYY4xUMC4
https://www.youtube.com/@CuriosityStreaming
They Powered an Entire City Without Wires — Then Buried the System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMBT1tNFQI
https://www.youtube.com/@Buried_Century
I Made a Tree Generate Electricity..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSxK5VagSb8
https://www.youtube.com/@ConceptCraftedCreations
BANNED "Soil Battery" — ERASED in 1958. Powers a Home FOREVER. No Permission.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wTv2aOeQc
Dirt + Two Coins = Free Electricity — Can't Patent It. Now ILLEGAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyH3vqEsbg0
https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivalCamping7/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@ForbiddenCamping/videos
Baking Soda + Aluminum Foil = Free Electricity — The 1748 Battery They Made Illegal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZQCSGMRZ8
https://www.youtube.com/@Mr.DudeExplained
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
What Happens When You Wire Speakers Backwards?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBG442fX2E
https://www.youtube.com/@AudioUniversity
Rain Gutter POWER #1 - How to Harvest Free Energy From Your Roof with a Hydro Electric Generator!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6oNxckjEiE
Rain Gutter POWER #2 - 3D Printed Alternator, BEST Explanation of a Rectifier EVER!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLb4enCgnP4
https://www.youtube.com/@QuintBUILDs
- this is just a quirk related to how capitalism works? It only works/make sense if you view it from the perspective of capitalism but not from a scientific perspective? This is WTF material?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
How to use gravity to store energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB39BISNt0s
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
The small WA community finding its own solution to keep the power on | Landline | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af5yu7K1f8Q
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

Energy Storage Notes:

- once you begin to explore alternate storage energy options you being to run down some really interesting pathways. You understand better how the human body (and plant and animal life) works. The digestive system acts as a way of extracing energy (from the outside it looks really inefficient until you dig into how it works). There are various tiers of energy storage afterwards which help people (and animals) get through life. The brain and various other systems have reflexes and basic instincts and you can build upon them obviiously... Unlike human based electrical systems you don't need run seperate circuits everywhere? You run nutrients, power, signalling, etc... down several core systems like the circulatory system, nervous system, etc... Huge levels of multiplexing and different levels of signalling everywhere but most people don't realise? Makes sense why humans are struggling to make inroads with advanced prosphetics and exoskeletons?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/11/ascension-research-pre.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/10/prototype-neural-interface-transfer.html
...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/01/empathic-personalities-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/rat-backgroundresearch-professional-rat.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/08/medical-surgical-procedure-videos.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/organised-crime-background-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
- the thing I find interesting about the circulatory system is how much diffferent stuff there if floating around in the bloodstream. When you realise how many systems are potentially in play and the specialised role each one plays then you begin to understand the need for this. You can't use the same power source for different systems much like you can't match up different engines to different car chassis, the same with flashlights and batteries, etc... If there was a God/Creator he probably didn't anticipate humans would mess around so extensively with their diets and environments without them knowing what they were doing? Hence, massive obesity and environmental issues everywhere?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulatory_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipermeable_membrane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipose_tissue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid
- if you're terraforming a new planet from scratch self reproducing technology is absolutely crucial? Cells in the shape of spheres are obvious because structural integrity is uniform in all directions. Double helix is the most obvious configuration if you need 3D circuitry, all other space in a cell can be filled in using organcelles that perform useful functions. From this you think about chemistry, physics, biology, etc... and you begin to create life and useful actions/reactions. Provided the ground has sufficient and correct type of material you can have growth? Converting dead zones/dead land into useful land highly profitable when done well because you can grow food, generate power, feed animals, create carbon sinks, etc... from these areas when done well and efficiently?
Architecture Intelligence: How China is stopping a desert from swallowing a lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iSp6AVM8kY
https://www.youtube.com/@cgtn
2 BILLION Acres of NEW Farmland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4csIdPZxsg
https://www.youtube.com/@amillison
China Planted Millions of Trees in a Desert — And Nobody Is Talking About How One Man Did It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGs6Oo48wVs
https://www.youtube.com/@MakeTechFuture
How China Turned the Kubuqi Desert Green | Desert Reclamation Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPflVN8-dbM
https://www.youtube.com/@FutureMakers0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helichrysum_petiolare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloxylon_ammodendron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elion_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_bank
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/wang-wenbiao-son-desert-mission-green-planet
Wang Wenbiao
https://en.cdf.org.cn/cdf2019en/qyj/8065.htm
Why the Sahara is Turning Green (Again)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv44Ae1GFqY
https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingExplainedd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_engineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_zone
planterary seeding laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/planetary_protection_obligations_states1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/email-harvesting-notes-sperminator-ari.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_switching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Helix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_helix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organelle
- hook a bunch of cells in series electrically and allow them to trigger mechnical movement and you have muscle fibres? Connect them in 3D matrix and engineer in particular properties and you muscle. Shape them certain ways and add in filtration capabilities and other chemical reactions and you have organs like the heart, lungs, liver, etc...?

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/12/computerelectronics-data-drive-recovery.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel

Seaweed for Plant Stress — Why Is This Coastal Secret Still "Overlooked" by Modern Farming？ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s0WTG17Z6s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering
- as you continue to master bio-organics you'll realise many great things are possible. You can build semi-permeable membranes that breath and change pore size, function, etc... based on environment conditions. This allows you to bring in and expel what you don't need or what has been compromised such as theoretical electrolyte. So much beautiful effects/options available?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(franchise)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipermeable_membrane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
what do bioluminescent plankton eat
https://www.carolina.com/teacher-resources/Interactive/care-guide-bioluminescent-dinoflagellates/tr41209.tr
https://biolum.eemb.ucsb.edu/organism/redtide.html
https://serious-science.org/bioluminescent-algae-6827
- even if humans can only currently semi-master semi-permeable membranes and organ on chip technology currently it opens up the possibility of artificial organs which can interact symbiotically. This allows you to create circuits as this is just basically physics/chemistry now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipermeable_membrane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ-on-a-chip
- super simple artificially non-replicating electrochemical batteries/like mitochondria entirely possible currently?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Programmable_matter
smart lego
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0n2bs8d/lego-s-new-smart-brick
https://www.lego.com/en-au/smart-play
are there any bacteria that change based on exposure to light
Light Control in Microbial Systems
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11011852/
- timing is a requirement of more complex machinery and it's the same with the human body. Active timing systems required for to activate other circuits especially ones that require sensors
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-key-gene-multiple-sclerosis-treatment.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-brain-everyday.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_oscillator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDRAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM
- the frustrating thing about the moon is it's lack of liquid?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
size comparison moon regolith vs earth
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/05_1_snoble_thelunarregolith.pdf
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/composition/

Endless Medicine:

- according to what I've seen and heart from many medical professionals most illnesses are environmental. Fix most of that and most illnesses disappear
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
- ancient and indigineous civilisations actually had a lot of decent knowledge but to justify and secure their leadership knowledge of it had to be wiped out during the imperial and colonial ears? They did/do have their own medicine that may work? Ironically, the good thing when you have a choice of healthcare provider when one system fails you can choose another which we've denied a lot of people?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-27/telstra-outage-in-kintore-nt-impacting-power-fuel-and-triple0/106499742
One Tree Produces Fuel, Food & Medicine—Rockefeller Made Sure You'd Never Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eAlPfrxleA
https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenRootsOfficial
9,000-Year-Old Medicine. $3 to Build. A $72 Billion Industry Prays You Never Try It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZWRp_KZcgA
https://www.youtube.com/@LostPlantRemedies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophetic_medicine
22 Biblical Plants That Will Heal You Instantly — Why Did We Forget It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOf7f9kl_w
https://www.youtube.com/@BANNEDGARDENS
Every weekend, millions order gin and tonic without knowing they're drinking diluted medicine. That bitter taste comes from a compound so valuable that men were murdered for its seeds, and empires went to war over its source. Modern tonic water contains 83 mg per liter. Colonial tonic contained 1,000 mg. You'd need 12 liters of Schweppes to get one therapeutic dose of the medicine that once saved millions.
This is the story of Cinchona officinalis, the fever tree that grows between 5,000 and 9,000 feet in the Andes. The Quechua people used its bark for centuries to stop shivering during mountain nights. When Europeans arrived with malaria in the 1500s, this cold remedy accidentally became the cure that would reshape global power.
By 1820, French chemists isolated quinine from the bark. Within 30 years, British malaria deaths dropped 86%. This wasn't just medicine, it was geopolitical dominance. The British used it to colonize India. The Dutch used it to control Indonesia. That gin and tonic at the bar? That's how British officers took their mandatory daily medicine starting in 1825.
But every gram came from South American forests. Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia banned seed exports. Violators faced death. European empires sent thieves disguised as botanists. Most failed until Charles Ledger and Manuel Incra Mamani found a super-tree in Bolivia with 13% quinine, triple any known variety. Mamani collected 14 pounds of seeds. The Dutch bought them for £100. When Mamani tried collecting more in 1871, Bolivian authorities beat him, imprisoned him, and left him to die.
The Dutch planted those stolen seeds in Java. By 1939, they controlled 97% of global quinine through the Kina Bureau cartel. Then Japan invaded Java in 1942. The Allies lost access overnight. American soldiers died faster from malaria than combat.
The pharmaceutical industry's solution? Chloroquine, synthesized in 1934. Cheaper than quinine. Easier to manufacture. By 1947, it replaced nature entirely. But resistance emerged in just 12 years. They introduced mefloquine, resistance in 5 years. Atovaquone, resistance the same year. Every synthetic antimalarial followed the same pattern: rapid success, total failure.
Meanwhile, quinine never developed widespread resistance. Despite 400 years of continuous use, the malaria parasite still responds to quinine treatment. Studies from the 1920s and 1930s showed crude cinchona bark extract was equally or more effective than purified quinine against drug-resistant strains.
Today, malaria kills 610,000 people annually. 75% are children under five in sub-Saharan Africa. The pharmaceutical antimalarial market is worth $4 billion annually, dominated by artemisinin therapies. But resistance is already emerging in Rwanda and Uganda. And the natural compound that works? Economically abandoned.
Why? Because synthetic drugs have patent protection and high margins. Cinchona is a tree. Anyone with land at the right elevation can grow it. After World War II, the knowledge of how to cultivate it was systematically buried. Dutch scientific papers were archived. Seed banks were abandoned.
The next time you order a gin and tonic, taste that bitterness. That's not just flavor. That's the memory of what pharmaceutical companies decided you didn't need to know.
📚 SOURCES:
Achan, J., et al. "Quinine, an old anti-malarial drug in a modern world: role in the treatment of malaria." Malaria Journal 10.1 (2011): 144.
Kaufman, T.S., and Rúveda, E.A. "The quest for quinine: those who won the battles and those who won the war." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 44.6 (2005): 854–885.
Rocco, Fiammetta. The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World. HarperCollins, 2003.
Taylor, Norman. Cinchona in Java: The Story of Quinine. Greenberg Publisher, 1945.
World Health Organization. Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria, 3rd Edition. WHO Press, 2015.
Gramiccia, G., and Beales, P.F. "The recent history of malaria control and eradication." In Malaria: Principles and Practice of Malariology, edited by Wernsdorfer and McGregor, Churchill Livingstone, 1988.
Honigsbaum, Mark. The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Meshnick, S.R., and Dobson, M.J. "The history of antimalarial drugs." In Antimalarial Chemotherapy, edited by Rosenthal, Humana Press, 2001.
The Most Valuable Plant In History. Why Did They Turn It Into A Cocktail?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1OgS6paYw
https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault
- you can create medicine at the cellular level as you become more familiar with sub-cellular engineering, sub-atomic engineering, etc?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/01/3d-printing-background-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260318-the-deep-cave-bacteria-resistant-to-modern-medicine
- once you understand the engineering of cells at their most basic form things become so much easier. Controlling invasive species becomes thinkable now but you also realise that the entire human model of how biology works likely goes out the window (genetics just assumes that everything revolves around simple on and off switches but cells seem to contain control flow information, variables, iteration, etc... much like computer programs)? I didn't quite realise until recently that a lot of countries are basically eating invasive species, creating building materials, and other resources from them. Invasive species feel a lot like diseased cells in the body if you think about it carefully? Once you understand the underlying programming you can control both invasive species as well as disease
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/08/medical-surgical-procedure-videos.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/large-learning-models-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/10/medicinebuilding-human-body-from.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/10/mental-illnessmedicine-and-pre_9.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_nuclear_transfer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ-on-a-chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/03/implantable-living-pharmacy-produces-multiple-drugs-inside-the-body?fj=1
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260327/HOBIT-device-improves-oxygen-supply-for-drug-producing-cells.aspx
do simpler bacteria multiply more rapidly
https://www.patho3gen.com/project/how-do-bacteria-reproduce-so-quickly/
https://www.britannica.com/science/microbiology/Reproduction-and-growth
Why Don't They Eat Billions of Animals in Australia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py1j8KSo6Ng
https://www.youtube.com/@WATOP_VIDEO
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/12/from-turtles-to-fruit-bats-migratory-species-increasingly-under-threat-says-un
3 Warning Signs of Prostate Cancer | 3D Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tJbO66lng
How does a person die from cancer? | 3D Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87m19xZ--BE
https://www.youtube.com/@dr.paulinemoyaert
This Is Why CANE TOAD CARCASSES In Australia Have THEIR BELLIES SLIT OPEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMiQJk9XdRo
https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleDiscovery24
It's Crazy! Vietnam Is Farming Billions Of Tiny Creatures That Once Devastated Global Agriculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlp30X_oseE
https://www.youtube.com/@Mandarintechmido
- so many different possibilities even if you just use bacteria as building blocks for other stuff? Just think of elements, molecules,compounds, etc... as inputs/food/fuel sources available from anywhere and then use relevant bacteria to convert it into what you want. Just focus in on working with rather then against environment? Once you intermesh them into larger more complex groups you can do so much more like microchips as part of a computer?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=project+hail+mary+talking+to+rocky
Rocky Introduction Scene | PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) Movie CLIP 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-NVFrxQDA
https://www.youtube.com/@JoBloMovieClips
Rocky the Alien Visits Grace' Spaceship - PROJECT HAIL MARY Movie Clip (2026) Ryan Gosling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TUzmeHT0AY
https://www.youtube.com/@EntertainmentAccess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-blooded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm-blooded
do any bacteria produce petroleum
In the study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Warwick and MIT, and published today (5 October) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, the scientists measured the amount of hydrocarbons in a range of laboratory-grown cyanobacteria and used the data to estimate the amount produced in the oceans.
Although each individual cell contains minuscule quantities of hydrocarbons, the researchers estimated that the amount produced by two of the most abundant cyanobacteria in the world – Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus – is more than two million tonnes in the ocean at any one time. This indicates that these two groups alone produce between 300 and 800 million tonnes of hydrocarbons per year, yet the concentration at any time in unpolluted areas of the oceans is tiny, thanks to other bacteria that break down the hydrocarbons as they are produced.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bacteria-in-the-worlds-oceans-produce-millions-of-tonnes-of-hydrocarbons-each-year
https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/high-octane-bacteria-could-ease-pain-at-the-pump/
Microbial‐based motor fuels: science and technology
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3815883/
are there any bacteria that give off electrons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bacteria
Electroactive Bacteria in Natural Ecosystems and Their Applications in Microbial Fuel Cells for Bioremediation: A Review
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10263229/
are any bacteria which produce endothermic reactions
https://www.science-revision.co.uk/A-level_energetics_enthalpy_changes.html
Exothermic and endothermic reactions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zb7wwnb#z8shhcw
Extremely thermophilic microorganisms as metabolic engineering platforms for production of fuels and industrial chemicals
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4633485/
which bacteria cause endothermic reactions
Chapter 4Bacterial Metabolism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7919/
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/engineering/engineering-thermodynamics/endothermic-reactions/
which bacteria grow in straight lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_cellular_morphologies
are there any bacteria that produce hydrogen
The overlooked benefits of hydrogen-producing bacteria
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9979208/
Photo-Fermentative Bacteria Used for Hydrogen Production
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/3/1191
are there any anaerobic bacteria that produce hydrogen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentative_hydrogen_production
Hydrogen production by mixed culture of several facultative bacteria and anaerobic bacteria
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1002007112600902
are there any bacteria that produce oxygen
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-oxygen.html
TIL: 20% of Our Oxygen Comes from Bacteria
Did you know that 20% of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean? Tiny bacteria called prochlorococcus are hard at work turning carbon dioxide into the oxygen we breathe through photosynthesis. Join oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle to learn about this small but mighty organism.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/til-20-our-oxygen-comes-bacteria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochlorococcus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
https://asm.org/articles/2022/february/the-great-oxidation-event-how-cyanobacteria-change

Miscellaneous Notes:
- people in the US/West (developed world) seem lazy, shallow, entitled, when you see the work being done in many (developing) poorer countries? It makes sense why if you think about it. In the US/West you have chance after chance if you fail, there are no genuine consequences but in the developing world you either make it work or you starve or die? People in the developing world literally can't afford to lose
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/01/empathic-personalities-random-stuff-and.html
Gaza sweet makers keep Eid traditions alive under Israeli blockade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuGzRfeIS14
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
How China's once-poorest province is powering the world's matcha obsession
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj9jt0zPujc
https://www.youtube.com/@cgtn
Who is Trump really fighting in Iran? | If You're Listening | ABC NEWS In-depth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6NZOvMVl6I
Iran is running out of water | If You're Listening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFG_vzuGe-8
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Iran: The system built to outlive the man | Al Jazeera Explainer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDXPgg7W-SM
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps
How Soviet leaders are selected #sovietstories #sovietjokes #soviets #ussr
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/20_OipUJXQk
Red pen #sovietjokes #sovietstories #soviets
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qS5G_lHKyLk
the only one person in the whole union. #sovietjokes #sovietstories #soviets #ussr #reaganjokes
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nSQpDE_5WYY
https://www.youtube.com/@SovietStoriesWithYuri/shorts
https://www.amazon.com.au/KGB-Inside-Foreign-Operations-Gorbachev/dp/0060166053
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensheviks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrokhin_Archive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silovik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Bet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_People%27s_Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
"Invent and resolve": How Cuba's survived six decades of US blockade | Al Jazeera World Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U931IsZtzBw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period
Riquimbili are improvised motorised bicycles found in Cuba, often using such things as a chainsaw motor and a plastic bottle to hold the gasoline. These improvised motorcycles are illegal but tolerated.[1] Some riquimbili are modified for racing, which is less tolerated by authorities.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riquimbili
Economic Intelligence Report - N° 83 - HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES IN THE USSR - DURING THE SEVEN YEAR PLAN - 1959-65
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79R01141A002300080002-5.pdf
https://aldianews.com/en/culture/heritage-and-history/apple-cuba
http://www.technologicaldisobedience.com/2016/05/16/el-libro-de-la-familia/
https://www.etsy.com/listing/265343054/soviet-vintage-plastic-fan-orbita-ussr
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/bizarre-brilliant-useful-inventions-cuban-diy-engineers
https://www.technologicaldisobedience.com/2016/06/14/aurika-70/
https://havanatimes.org/diaries/jorge/a-cuban-washing-machine-mechanic/
https://cubamaterial.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_generator
African GENIUS makes Old Engines outdo Modern Engines!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDtOC3X2o4
https://www.youtube.com/@CarTechgadgets
Take a Look at Ghana's First Plastic House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4eRPOt6-vk
https://www.youtube.com/@TV3Ghana
Jakarta rapidly sinks as climate change and overdevelopment collide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50r53mqXMg0
https://www.youtube.com/@PBSNewsHour

- remarkable that other parts of the world are using same home appliances for several decades and cars for more then half a century while in other parts of the world people upgrade every few years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickshaw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukudu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Rich_or_Die_Tryin%27_(film)

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/01/3d-printing-background-random-stuff-and.html

https://www.youtube.com/@UnitywaterAus/videos

The Single Australian Farm That’s Bigger Than 49 Countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiSN21jKp4s

https://www.youtube.com/@halfasinteresting

is hydrogen less draggy then air

The Monopoly on Rails: How China Won the Bullet Train Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7j6YQhPTQo

https://www.youtube.com/@BehindAsia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Al-Musk Lake (Arabic: بحيرة المسك) was an artificial sewage lake east of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a city that (at the time) lacked an underground sewage system.[1] The lake was established by the Municipality of Jeddah in the 1990s.[2] Over time, the lake reached dangerous levels, and in 2005, a concrete precautionary dam was erected to prevent spillover into the city.[3]

In 2010, the lake was drained by Saudi Arabia's National Water Company, acting under government instructions.[2] Despite having been drained of sewage, a 2017 scientific study concluded that the site remained environmentally contaminated.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Musk_Lake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Saudi_Arabia

Why people are throwing AI data centers into the ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyklsgOClJA

https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA

Inside China's first near-zero energy skyscraper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-F4QZ3iD_8

https://www.youtube.com/@cgtn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_generator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Rock_from_the_Sun

- most people have a poor understanding of science, economics, law, politics, medicine, etc... generally? Humanity's own internal corruption means that they may be suffering for no reason? Many of the world's best minds have said there was "something wrong" with the education system and they weren't learning much in the formal education system but not much has changed over the years? For many of these guys, it's just a general feeling that they were in "The Matrix"?

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
The Day Feynman Proved Doctors Understand Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlVmqAmwfJQ
https://www.youtube.com/@feynmanarchives
In 1974, Richard Feynman stood before Caltech's graduating class and accused most of modern science of being a fraud. He called it "Cargo Cult Science" — research that follows every rule, checks every box, and still produces nothing real. His warning was ignored for 50 years. Now the replication crisis is proving him right.
In this documentary, we break down Feynman's legendary 1974 Caltech commencement speech word by word — from the cargo cults of Melanesia to the Millikan oil drop experiment, the forgotten rat maze researcher Mr. Young, the collapse of ESP research at Duke University, and how an entire generation of scientists learned to fool themselves without ever realizing it.
Feynman didn't just expose bad science. He exposed the invisible force that makes smart people trust wrong answers — deference to authority, the pressure to publish, and the human instinct to stop questioning results once they "look right." Fifty years later, the replication crisis confirmed his worst fears: fewer than 40% of psychology studies could be reproduced, nearly 90% of preclinical cancer research failed independent replication, and in 2025, Harvard revoked a professor's tenure for fabricating data across multiple studies.
This is not just a physics lecture. This is a blueprint for recognizing when systems reward appearance over substance — in science, in business, in any organization where the runway looks perfect but the planes never land.
Based on Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science" speech (1974) and adapted from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" — one of the most influential science books ever written.
DISCLAIMER: This video is an educational documentary created for informational and commentary purposes. All claims are sourced from Feynman's published 1974 Caltech commencement speech, publicly available academic records, and peer-reviewed research on the replication crisis. This channel is not affiliated with the Feynman estate, Caltech, or any institution mentioned. Archival materials and AI-generated visuals are used under fair use for educational commentary.
#Feynman #CargoCultScience #ReplicationCrisis #ScientificIntegrity
Why Feynman Said Every Textbook Was Designed to Lie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tey9mqbwj6M
https://www.youtube.com/@PulsoP%C3%BAbliyT
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chomsky+indoctrination
Noam Chomsky - The Educational System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgXZuGIMuwQ
https://www.youtube.com/@chomskysphilosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
albert einstein education quote
On Schooling: ''It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.'' [quoted in The New York Times, March 13 1949, p. 34].
On Imagination: ''Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.'' [quoted in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" Saturday Evening Post , October 26th, 1929, p. 11].
https://www.institute4learning.com/2020/01/15/14-great-quotes-from-einstein-on-education-with-sources/
First conversation (1930):
School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave. This was a Catholic School in Munich. I felt that my thirst for knowledge was being strangled by my teachers; grades were their only measurement. How can a teacher understand youth with such a system? . . . from the age of twelve I began to suspect authority and distrust teachers. I learned mostly at home, first from my uncle and then from a student who came to eat with us once a week. He would give me books on physics and astronomy. The more I read, the more puzzled I was by the order of the universe and the disorder of the human mind, by the scientists who didn't agree on the how, the when, or the why of creation. Then one day this student brought me Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Reading Kant, I began to suspect everything I was taught. I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Einstein_and_the_Poet_(1983)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=matrix+what+is+it
What is The Matrix? | The Matrix [Open Matte]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5b0ZxUWNf0
https://www.youtube.com/@flashbackfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)
- it would be great to know if any of the ancient myths/legends are true? Are there any ancient artifacts and technology or descendents left on Earth? Are human languages a subset of that of other alien civilisations and does their knowledge actually derive from them? The rule by bloodline concept makes sense now but that would mean any humans that technically came from Heaven were thrown out without any support or scientific or technology knowledge which makes the decisions that they've made more all the more understandable?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/01/empathic-personalities-random-stuff-and.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heredity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_monarchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypto
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Krypto+the+Superdog
Krypto The Superdog Powers and Fighting Skills Compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwFFF6IlIQ
https://www.youtube.com/@AwesomeRandomVidz
Superman - Krypto... get the toy 😳 | DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijKw6F6VnDA
Superman - A punkrocker ending ft. Supergirl 🦸 | DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8jDthS_7M
https://www.youtube.com/@dcofficial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Solitude
- it feels like our lives made artificially difficult because those above us are trying to maximise profit generation? The tragedy of most ideologies, religions, etc... on Earth is that they don't solve the problems they claim to want to solve. Without dealing with this issue suffering can not end? Ironically, lots of mathematicians, philosophers, academics, etc... claim to work on proofs and logic but they won't want to touch at the most pressing logical problems at hand?
- if any of the ancient myths/legends are true then other potential aliens/species figured out all this stuff but then faced raw consumption issues still which meant that they were forced to deal with efficiency issues. Since most illnesses are caused by ageing and environmental issues they would have have been forced to figure out a way to Ascend or regenerate their bodies to maintain their civilisation?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/08/medical-surgical-procedure-videos.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/16/gaza-jobs-unemployment-crisis-aid-food-basics
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2026/02/how-wealthy-genuinely-make-money.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/car-of-future-some-random-intelligence.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-green-part-2.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/07/europeaninternational-economic-reform.html
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define genie
a magical spirit, originally in Arab traditional stories, who does or provides whatever the person who controls it asks
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Your Garden Will Die In A Drought — The Aztec Chinampa Method That Grows Food With Zero Rain
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The WWII Communication System That Works Without Batteries
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https://www.youtube.com/@ApocalypseSolutions
Grow Unlimited Omega 3 in a Bucket. No Soil. No Sunlight. Harvest Weekly.
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Turning a $150 AC Into a Super-Efficient Geothermal Unit!
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This $15 Sticker Cuts 80% of Your Energy Bill. Why Did the Energy Industry Hide It?
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An Unbelievable Half Priced AI Wooden House Built by Robots in Just 3 Days
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do certain nationalies have higher libidos then others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_sexuality
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6521407_Universal_sex_differences_in_the_desire_for_sexual_variety_Tests_from_52_nations_6_continents_and_13_islands
rape rate by country
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https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-rate
bill gates data website
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/
cause of death by country trend
https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum
How Small Nuclear Reactors Are Transforming Power Grids In China & Finland | The Nuclear Option
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https://www.youtube.com/@CNAInsider
China Says It Built a 1000× Faster AI Chip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmEWj0PB12s
China Makes Breakthrough With Thorium Nuclear Reactor. Where is the West?
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https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied
which industries depend on internal combustion engines
https://www.usdanalytics.com/industry-reports/internal-combustion-engine-market
https://www.sema.org/news-media/enews/2023/25/future-internal-combustion-engines
Why did Britain industrialise first? It's more complicated than you think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOm7NG4USEI
https://www.youtube.com/@historyextra
detonation engine wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_detonation_engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonation
Why Electricity is Holding Africa Back
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Why Iran's Leaders Face a Dangerous Moment
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Why the World Is Awash With Cheap Oil
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Can France Fix Its Debt Problem?
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https://www.youtube.com/@business
The Rise and Fall of Pratt & Whitney: The Engine That Bankrupted Airlines
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https://www.youtube.com/@WonderWing94
- if I'm right then matter follows pretty similar rules most of the way down. Quantum Mechanics is just an strange aberration like Geocentrism? More powerful fuel sources and safer ones exist once you master sub-atomic engineering? Ionizing radiation seems to hit a sweet spot for temperating with human DNA/genetics so if you go smaller/different coding schema you'll be less likely to encounter problems? Humans still struggle with yield rates for silicon based microchip technology so it's going to be a way off before they master this unless there is outside help? Elegance and reconfiguration is the name of the not always brute force?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/sane-and-sensible-hierarchiesorganisati.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/11/alternative-food-diets-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/09/rat-backgroundresearch-professional-rat.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluidity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentrism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation
how much more powerful is nuclear energy than fossil fuels
Nuclear power uses very little fuel. A uranium fuel pellet the size of your finger can produce as much energy as one ton of coal or 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas. Because nuclear fuel is not burned like coal or gas, the same amount of fuel that goes into a reactor comes out after the fuel is used. This spent fuel will be radioactive for thousands of years, and can be harmful to people or the environment, so managing it is one of the biggest challenges of nuclear power, just as the air pollution from fossil fuels and the electronic waste from solar panels are serious challenges for other forms of energy. Practical solutions for disposal, recycling and reuse of spent nuclear fuel already exist, and others are being studied. To be effective, these solutions must be backed by policy choices and popular approval.
https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/nuclear-energy
https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/fuel-comparison/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit
In Dec 2021, Joint European Torus broke fusion power records, marking a historic leap in clean energy. "Star Makers" unveils the cutting-edge tech and brilliant minds behind this breakthrough, offering a journey into the future of nuclear fusion.
Star Makers: The Energy Of Tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkiwEBv5U4M
Something DISTURBING Happens When You Split An Atom — Feynman Was Right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWIdgiSpij8
https://www.youtube.com/@PhysicswithFeynman-1
- if you can you can break down matter to increasingly small levels (what feels like ad-infinitum) then you create all sorts of different stuff and energy anywhere in the Universe and don't need to consume the resources of one planet after the other and laying waste to them? Most matter at macro and micro level seems to follow simple principles. If you can put matter in an un-natural state it will always try to go back to a natural state (think about hydroelectricity, nuclear bombs, jet engines, etc...). The more un-natural the state the higher the corresponding impulse/energy level? Humans are clearly coming up against materials engineering problems (watch how the combustion chamber glows and shakes even on the most powerful rockets on Earth during liftoff) with spacecraft but this problem is related to the energy issue as well. Re-arrange in particular un-natural ways which are stable and you can get thermal stability, tensile strength, rigidity, etc? You can let Demons and Useful Idiots wander around from time to time but don't let it get out of control? No matter how entertaining, they're troublemakers...
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/01/3d-printing-background-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/organised-crime-background-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/01/get-country-satellite-map-links-script.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/12/are-anti-weapons-technologies-viable.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/04/anti-weapons-technology.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
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Pinky And The Brain | Intro Multilanguage
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https://www.youtube.com/@WayneMarceloMavenixa
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minion
Despicable Me 3 2017 - Minion Idol Stage Song Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ4rQKpcQ60
Minions Banana Song Full Song)
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minion+gru
Despicable Me 3 2017 - Minion Idol Stage Song Scene
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https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=minions+apple
Mini Movie Compilation Espisode 1 - Minion Banana War
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Get Smart on Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p4bLO6OPkI
https://www.youtube.com/@dukeroc88
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=captain+jack+sparrow+funny+moments
Top 10 Funniest Jack Sparrow Moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvO-cpd8AuI
https://www.youtube.com/@_viper_the_gamer_2071
Jack Sparrow being iconic for 4 minutes straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51PyZeidmxM
https://www.youtube.com/@behindthefamecz
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14621749/Inside-Israels-Oasis-Peace-village-Palestinians-Jews-purposefully-live-exist-harmony-face-anger-extremists-sides.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Hussar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_(1995_film)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth_(Buddhism)
Among the hallmark traits of people with Williams syndrome is an apparent lack of social inhibition. Dykens and Rosner (1999) found that 100% of those with Williams syndrome were kind-spirited, 90% sought the company of others, 87% empathize with others' pain, 84% are caring, 83% are unselfish/forgiving, 75% never go unnoticed in a group, and 75% are happy when others do well.[38] Infants with Williams syndrome make normal and frequent eye contact, and young children with Williams will often approach and hug strangers. People affected by Williams syndrome typically have high empathy, showing relative strength in reading people's eyes to gauge intentions, emotions, and mental states.[39] The level of friendliness observed in people with Williams is often inappropriate for the social setting, however, and teens and adults with Williams syndrome often experience social isolation, frustration, and loneliness despite their clear desire to connect to other people.[36]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Time_to_Die
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I've never eaten a real apple
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- Sound money is money that is not prone to sudden appreciation or depreciation in purchasing power over the long term, aided by self-correcting mechanisms inherent in a free-market system. The foregoing definition presents several implications about how we view sound money and how we should approach money in general.
https://www.soundmoneydefense.org/sound-money-explained
- The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalise assisted suicide in 2001.
In 2022 there were 8,720 euthanasia deaths in the country, representing 5% of all deaths there, up by 4% the year before.
In Scotland, an assisted dying bill has been drafted by Lib Dem MSP, Liam McArthur, and is expected to be debated in autumn.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/other/physically-healthy-28-year-old-woman-will-be-euthanised-next-month/ar-BB1l51px
The Five Eyes has two types of information collection methods: the PRISM program and the Upstream collection system. The PRISM program gathers user information from technology firms such as Google, Apple and Microsoft, while the Upstream system gathers information directly from the communications of civilians via fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past.[citation needed] The program's first disclosure to the public came in 1972 when a former NSA communications analyst reported to Ramparts Magazine that the NSA had developed technology that "could crack all Soviet codes". [36] In 1988, Duncan Campbell revealed in the New Statesman the existence of ECHELON, an extension of the UKUSA Agreement on global signals intelligence [Sigint]. The story, 'Somebody's listening,' detailed how the eavesdropping operations were not only being employed in the interests of 'national security,' but were regularly abused for corporate espionage in the service of US business interests. The piece passed largely unnoticed outside of journalism circles.[37] In 1996, a detailed description of ECHELON was provided by New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager in a book titled "Secret Power – New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network", which was cited by the European Parliament in a 1998 report titled "An Appraisal of the Technology of Political Control" (PE 168.184).[38] On 16 March 2000, the Parliament called for a resolution on the Five Eyes and their ECHELON surveillance network, which, if passed, would have called for the "complete dismantling of ECHELON".[39]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
- The Australorp is a chicken breed of Australian origin, developed as a utility breed with a focus on egg laying and is famous for laying more than 300 eggs. It achieved world-wide popularity in the 1920s after the breed broke numerous world records for number of eggs laid and has been a popular breed in the western world since.[4] It is one of eight poultry breeds created in Australia and recognised by the Australian Poultry Standards.[citation needed] The most popular colour of the breed is black, which is the only colour recognised in the United States of America,[4] but blue and white are also recognised in Australia[5] and the Poultry Club South Africa recognises buff, splash, wheaten laced and golden in addition.[6]
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Eggs
It was the egg-laying performance of Australorps that attracted world attention when in 1922–1923 a team of six hens set a world record by laying 1857 eggs for an average of 309.5 eggs per hen during a 365 consecutive day trial. These figures were achieved without the lighting regimens of the modern intensive shed. Such performances had importation orders flooding in from England, United States of America, South Africa, Canada and Mexico. Well looked after Australorps lay approximately 250 light-brown eggs per year. A new record was set when a hen laid 364 eggs in 365 days.[9] They are also known to be good nest sitters and mothers, making them one of the most popular large heritage utility breeds of chicken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australorp
- Brown chose to walk away from football in 2012 at the age of 29 to become a farmer in Louisburg, North Carolina. He maintains a 1,000-acre farm called First Fruits Farm where he grows produce such as sweet potatoes and cucumbers. He donates these crops to local food pantries, having given away over 500,000 pounds of sweet potatoes and 50,000 pounds of cucumbers. Brown began learning about farming practices in 2012 by watching YouTube videos.[12]
Brown also owns and manages a special events venue called Amazing Graze Barn, which is located on the grounds of First Fruits Farm.[13] The barn is available for hosting weddings as well as corporate events and community gatherings.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Brown_(American_football)
This is the inspiring story of Anya Pogharian, a Canadian teenager whose curiosity, empathy, and determination led her to develop an invention with the potential to reshape global healthcare. At just 17 years old, Anya captured international attention in 2015 when she created a low-cost dialysis machine prototype as part of a high-school STEM project—an innovation aimed at addressing one of the world's most urgent medical challenges.
Anya's idea took shape during her time volunteering at a hospital dialysis unit, where she witnessed the daily struggles of patients living with kidney failure. She became acutely aware of the enormous cost of conventional dialysis machines, which can exceed $30,000 per unit, placing life-saving treatment out of reach for millions of people, particularly in developing countries. Seeing how limited access could mean the difference between life and death motivated her to search for a more affordable and accessible solution.
Driven by her passion for engineering, Anya immersed herself in owner's manuals, scientific research papers, and technical resources to understand how dialysis machines function. Combining this knowledge with creativity and problem-solving, she used widely available, low-cost components to build her own prototype. Remarkably, the machine was developed for approximately $500, a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. Early laboratory tests showed that the prototype could effectively filter impurities from blood, demonstrating its potential to deliver safe, life-saving treatment at a significantly reduced cost.
Her innovation soon gained recognition beyond the classroom. International media outlets and healthcare organizations praised her work as a powerful example of how student-led innovation can address real-world medical problems. In recognition of her talent and promise, Anya was offered an internship at Héma-Québec, one of Canada's leading blood and medical service organizations, where she gained valuable hands-on experience in medical technology and biomedical research.
While the prototype shows great promise, Anya and medical experts have emphasized that it is still in the research and development phase. Before it can be widely implemented, the device must undergo extensive safety evaluations, clinical trials, and regulatory approval to meet international medical standards. Even so, her work stands as a compelling demonstration of how innovation can challenge existing healthcare limitations and move the world toward more equitable medical solutions.
Anya Pogharian's journey is more than the story of a medical prototype—it is a testament to the power of young minds to create meaningful change. Her project highlights the importance of nurturing STEM education, investing in affordable medical technologies, and reimagining how essential treatments are delivered worldwide. By blending scientific curiosity with a genuine desire to help others, Anya has inspired countless aspiring innovators, proving that age and resources are never barriers to making a global impact.
Her achievement also brings attention to the urgent need for accessible healthcare solutions, showing that groundbreaking ideas can emerge from unexpected places—even a high-school science classroom. Anya's story continues to serve as a beacon of inspiration for future inventors, engineers, and anyone committed to using science and technology to improve lives.
Note: This invention is a prototype and is currently under research and development.
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- Two French tourists who filmed themselves burning a quokka have been fined by a court in Perth, Australia.
The quokka, a small marsupial considered an endangered species in Australia, survived the attack.
Thibaud Jean Leon Vallet, 24, and Jean Mickael Batrikian, 18, were each fined A$4,000 ($3,130; £2,080).
In a video taken by Vallet, Batrikian was seen igniting an aerosol spray producing a 30cm (10 inch) flame which singed the quokka's head and body.
The incident caused a public uproar.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, external reported that the two men could not pay the entire fine so were spending one night in jail.
Fairfax Media said, external the pair were backpackers on a working holiday and had spent three months on Rottnest Island, where quokkas are commonly found. They have since lost their jobs.
The judge called their behaviour "abhorrent" and said the decision to film the act was "perplexing".
"One can only imagine the impact caused to the quokka... Obviously it would have been fearful as a result of what occurred," she said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-32346835
- But going to the police also meant breaking her church's rules by airing sins to external authorities. She knew she'd likely be the one facing punishment, not the bishop.
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If there's any lesson we learned from the #MeToo movement, it's that the pattern is eerily unmistakable: Institutions try to silence the stories of individuals in order to protect the group. It doesn't matter if it's Hollywood or US Gymnastics or the Roman Catholic Church.
Those institutions only change when the group on the outside gets big enough and loud enough to pull the weight of the public in with them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-19/us-amish-communities-hiding-dark-pattern-of-sexual-abuse/12639080

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Endless Energy, Endless Food, Endless Resources, and More

Endless Energy, Endless Food, Endless Resources, and More