[Applause]
by this point most of you are going to
be extremely tired we have made you
dance we have made you answer questions
and raise your hands but I want to ask
you one more thing
I need you all to repeat three legendary
words that are extremely important to me
they’re gonna appear on the board and I
need you to repeat them in the loudest
way you can let’s start are you ready
Aldi is life perfect thank you so we’re
to story since I was a little kid I’ve
been blocking out the haters just
kidding
I’ve been fascinated with the world we
live in and the why of things this why
of things had made me keep trying to
understand the world around us and it is
most likely what brought me here today I
remember years ago as a kid seeing
footage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf
of Mexico if any of you remember that
was one of the only things that covered
the news at that time you would see
images like this
as you can see each of these defenseless
creatures discovered in thick black
crude oil which makes it unable for them
to fly and maintain body heat so at that
moment it hit me if oil does so much
harm to life why don’t we just stop
using it
even as it seems something so obvious
back then I understood that oil is cheap
and accessible making it the perfect
solution to fuel our addiction to energy
this addiction arms many aspects of our
daily lives from the polluted air we
breathe to the natural disasters caused
by climate change it was at this moment
that the idea had been implanted and it
would start a chain reaction that would
resurface until years later now we come
to last year I decided I wanted to study
biological engineering and that’s an
ultimate goal I wanted to change the
world for good to do this every step I
take would be in service of that
ultimate goal so I decided to find a way
to fill my head with ideas and I did it
through an internship I had my
internship and I I thought my head with
all these ideas but sadly through my
internship I learned that most of my
ideas were not possible they were either
already in place not feasible or even
dangerous to humanity so I burned
through most of them in a matter of
weeks with each faith are greater than
the last one until I stumbled upon
biofuels a relatively unexplored field
that that aligned with my passion some
background about the science since the
induced revolution we humans had been
making use of fossil fuels to power
industries and automobiles but today has
become the center of our lives fueling
this addiction to energy since the 1900s
scientists like hood of diesel this guy
and Nikola August Otto had been making
steps towards cleaner energies but
whereas sadly neither ethanol nor diesel
what solved the problem there were a
huge step toward cleaner energy
so you might be asking what does this
all have to do with me and why this is
with me but I found all G as a potential
source of biofuels for those that don’t
know algae is an aquatic plant that
ranges from seaweed as you can see here
to tiny green specks that float in the
ocean allsey algae is powered by the Sun
and takes in the carbon dioxide from all
the cars and factories we live with
while at the same time it produces
oxygen and biomass which is as a names
asset biological mass that can later be
used to produce oil so I hope that by
now you can get it all dee is truly life
it’s not only that we say that algae is
life it is literally life in this
diagram you’re able to see the whole
process from the algae taking in the
sunlight and the carbon dioxide and then
becoming oxygen and biomass if the algae
is harvested dried and ground it can be
used to produce oil as you would from
almond or sunflower seeds
this oil could later be treated to
become a slimy green substance that is
similar to crude petroleum later in our
finery this can be used to make diesel
diesel I go straight to your car the
difference between visa and the algal
biodiesel the algal biodiesel is
completely carbon neutral for those that
don’t know carbon neutral means that it
doesn’t release any extra carbon into
the atmosphere making it environmentally
friendly you might be asking yourselves
now so what can we do with all this
information
I want to tell you that for
approximately six months I’ve been going
all deep below the stairs of my house
using a lamp some glassware and an
aquarium pump just to show just to learn
about the process and show it can be
done with ease this is my lab as you can
see that’s really my hand for the first
month my family must’ve thought I was
going crazy since I decided to embark on
a project I had no idea about and sadly
I didn’t have any remote idea on how to
get the materials but hopefully through
this talk to understand why they’re all
so this is an issue we need to take more
seriously we need to move from
accessible fossil fuels to a renewable
clean source of energy
from women imagine all the international
conflict that has been caused tutorial
due to the fossils of prehistoric man do
you know how crazy that sounds if we if
we address a problem and decide upon a
solution we dissolve those problems
today the answer could be in
instead of this small bottle of green
liquid that everybody can produce
this is the algae I produced
for a moment imagine all the all the
global leaders that have backed regime
after a dream just to have control over
the oil fields if you don’t think this
matters think again of how many families
live inside war areas
how many kids like an education due to
school being bombarded how many how many
civilians have died in a crossfire of
these battles for if the contents of
this vial shows how it is possible to
grow our own fuel stop international
conflict and fight to save the planet
what’s stopping us what’s stopping you
this vial represents all the time and
effort I put into the strategy
it might seem small to most of you but
it’s a huge steps towards a cleaner
future due to my lack of interest or
equipment I wasn’t able to create huge
bowels of oil but this process I have
learned everything about growing ology
has boosted my intellectual curiosity
and this and it it has made me look for
new solutions
there’s vile represents that there is a
cleaner future ahead
through my project I learn every aspect
of growing ology from keeping alive to
measuring its growth I hope that one day
I will be able to continue my project
with the knowledge and resources to
implement that I make a large-scale
change that changes that way that we as
a society live
he is Han Solo from the Star Wars saga
one of my favorite characters and he
said never tell me the odds even in a
galaxy far far away they understood the
need of persistence that we should have
and we need to understand we are at the
future we have all heard it every day
and it’s true we are the future that is
always coming and we need the persistent
that Han Solo was talking about I once
heard that we were born too late to
explore the world and too early to
explore the universe and whereas it
could be true the generations ahead of
us will say that we were born too late
or the world but if we choose will be
those who change the world for good
thank you
and remember biologically literally and
humanely Aldi is life
[Applause]
by this point most of you are going to
be extremely tired we have made you
dance we have made you answer questions
and raise your hands but I want to ask
you one more thing
I need you all to repeat three legendary
words that are extremely important to me
they’re gonna appear on the board and I
need you to repeat them in the loudest
way you can let’s start are you ready
Aldi is life perfect thank you so we’re
to story since I was a little kid I’ve
been blocking out the haters just
kidding
I’ve been fascinated with the world we
live in and the why of things this why
of things had made me keep trying to
understand the world around us and it is
most likely what brought me here today I
remember years ago as a kid seeing
footage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf
of Mexico if any of you remember that
was one of the only things that covered
the news at that time you would see
images like this
as you can see each of these defenseless
creatures discovered in thick black
crude oil which makes it unable for them
to fly and maintain body heat so at that
moment it hit me if oil does so much
harm to life why don’t we just stop
using it
even as it seems something so obvious
back then I understood that oil is cheap
and accessible making it the perfect
solution to fuel our addiction to energy
this addiction arms many aspects of our
daily lives from the polluted air we
breathe to the natural disasters caused
by climate change it was at this moment
that the idea had been implanted and it
would start a chain reaction that would
resurface until years later now we come
to last year I decided I wanted to study
biological engineering and that’s an
ultimate goal I wanted to change the
world for good to do this every step I
take would be in service of that
ultimate goal so I decided to find a way
to fill my head with ideas and I did it
through an internship I had my
internship and I I thought my head with
all these ideas but sadly through my
internship I learned that most of my
ideas were not possible they were either
already in place not feasible or even
dangerous to humanity so I burned
through most of them in a matter of
weeks with each faith are greater than
the last one until I stumbled upon
biofuels a relatively unexplored field
that that aligned with my passion some
background about the science since the
induced revolution we humans had been
making use of fossil fuels to power
industries and automobiles but today has
become the center of our lives fueling
this addiction to energy since the 1900s
scientists like hood of diesel this guy
and Nikola August Otto had been making
steps towards cleaner energies but
whereas sadly neither ethanol nor diesel
what solved the problem there were a
huge step toward cleaner energy
so you might be asking what does this
all have to do with me and why this is
with me but I found all G as a potential
source of biofuels for those that don’t
know algae is an aquatic plant that
ranges from seaweed as you can see here
to tiny green specks that float in the
ocean allsey algae is powered by the Sun
and takes in the carbon dioxide from all
the cars and factories we live with
while at the same time it produces
oxygen and biomass which is as a names
asset biological mass that can later be
used to produce oil so I hope that by
now you can get it all dee is truly life
it’s not only that we say that algae is
life it is literally life in this
diagram you’re able to see the whole
process from the algae taking in the
sunlight and the carbon dioxide and then
becoming oxygen and biomass if the algae
is harvested dried and ground it can be
used to produce oil as you would from
almond or sunflower seeds
this oil could later be treated to
become a slimy green substance that is
similar to crude petroleum later in our
finery this can be used to make diesel
diesel I go straight to your car the
difference between visa and the algal
biodiesel the algal biodiesel is
completely carbon neutral for those that
don’t know carbon neutral means that it
doesn’t release any extra carbon into
the atmosphere making it environmentally
friendly you might be asking yourselves
now so what can we do with all this
information
I want to tell you that for
approximately six months I’ve been going
all deep below the stairs of my house
using a lamp some glassware and an
aquarium pump just to show just to learn
about the process and show it can be
done with ease this is my lab as you can
see that’s really my hand for the first
month my family must’ve thought I was
going crazy since I decided to embark on
a project I had no idea about and sadly
I didn’t have any remote idea on how to
get the materials but hopefully through
this talk to understand why they’re all
so this is an issue we need to take more
seriously we need to move from
accessible fossil fuels to a renewable
clean source of energy
from women imagine all the international
conflict that has been caused tutorial
due to the fossils of prehistoric man do
you know how crazy that sounds if we if
we address a problem and decide upon a
solution we dissolve those problems
today the answer could be in
instead of this small bottle of green
liquid that everybody can produce
this is the algae I produced
for a moment imagine all the all the
global leaders that have backed regime
after a dream just to have control over
the oil fields if you don’t think this
matters think again of how many families
live inside war areas
how many kids like an education due to
school being bombarded how many how many
civilians have died in a crossfire of
these battles for if the contents of
this vial shows how it is possible to
grow our own fuel stop international
conflict and fight to save the planet
what’s stopping us what’s stopping you
this vial represents all the time and
effort I put into the strategy
it might seem small to most of you but
it’s a huge steps towards a cleaner
future due to my lack of interest or
equipment I wasn’t able to create huge
bowels of oil but this process I have
learned everything about growing ology
has boosted my intellectual curiosity
and this and it it has made me look for
new solutions
there’s vile represents that there is a
cleaner future ahead
through my project I learn every aspect
of growing ology from keeping alive to
measuring its growth I hope that one day
I will be able to continue my project
with the knowledge and resources to
implement that I make a large-scale
change that changes that way that we as
a society live
he is Han Solo from the Star Wars saga
one of my favorite characters and he
said never tell me the odds even in a
galaxy far far away they understood the
need of persistence that we should have
and we need to understand we are at the
future we have all heard it every day
and it’s true we are the future that is
always coming and we need the persistent
that Han Solo was talking about I once
heard that we were born too late to
explore the world and too early to
explore the universe and whereas it
could be true the generations ahead of
us will say that we were born too late
or the world but if we choose will be
those who change the world for good
thank you
and remember biologically literally and
humanely Aldi is life
[Applause]
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