Monday, May 18, 2020

The Elegance of CO2

I can't stop this battle, to exonerate CO2.

In the late 1960s I was a science student at the University of NSW, Kensington, Australia.  I studied biological sciences,including Biochemistry.

I never forget my wonder at the exquisitiveness and dare I say elegance of the Krebs Cycle (respiration),  and the Photosynthesis Cycle;  CO2 being crucial molecule.  Every atom, photon, phosphate molecule,  energy ADP to ATP,   all was in Balance,  everything was accounted for.

 Since those ancient days, biochem has made great strides and even I  struggle to understand it now.

One can learn more from Kahn Academy which describes all in detail.  I might be brave and study more, to explain here, and to save a snip of the diagrammatic Cycles, complete with complex enzymes  organising this chemistry.  All mathematical.

If we are too smart and get rid of CO2 then there will be friggin nothing left to bring life alive on this planet.

That is how urgent it is to realise that some controllers want us to believe lies.....
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a snip from video to show amazing biochemistry re CO2.



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  More 3/12/2020

  IImportant videos.  Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-ySWyID9o

How breathing and metabolism are interconnected.  Ruben Meerman (the surfing scientist) TEDxBundaberg Dec 5, 2019.


He says how extraordinary there is a gapeing hole in peoples' understanding about CO2  and the food we eat.  A must see video!  He says it all.

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My Letter, to a friend.   I am saying it all too!!!

hi Emily, interesting. now "carbon". it sounds like this carbon is pollution! here is an important TEDx talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-ySWyID9o How breathing and metabolism are interconnected. Ruben Meerman (the surfing scientist) TEDxBundaberg Dec 5, 2019. Great diagrams on atomic level. at 3:36 minutes he asks people "What's the gas you breathe out because you're alive?" answers were "carbon dioxide". Then "Where do the carbon atoms in carbon dioxide come from?" Astonishingly almost nobody knew the answer! they said pollutants? fumes, gas, cars, vehicles, cow poop, out of my lungs, from the bloodstream, one guy said "From living things? plants, the food we eat" He was a PE teacher. he got it right. Ruben said "This is a gapeing hole in health literacy!" So he goes on to elegantly describe the metabolism we should all understand in our bodies. Equations, fats/carbs/proteins all are changed into carbon dioxide and water. eg for a smoothie (at 14 minutes) C6H12O6 (sugar) + C55H104O6 (fat) + C100H159N26O32S0.7 (protein) all metabolises to CO2 + H2O + CH4N2O (urea) + sulphate + energy. At the end he shows a kit of coloured magnetic balls representing atoms which children can put together to make molecules. I think it is worth shareing! I am writing a blog post "the elegance of CO2" in www.awhatifworld.blogspot.com not completed yet- Krebs Cycle and Calvin Cycle to go. and YT has great animation videos of these biochem processes where everything is perfectly orchestrated. This carbon dioxide being a cause of climate emergency is a huge scam! It takes a bit to explain, and I have done many posts to date. but there is more to elucidate. eg CO2 during Ice Ages and volcanics and extinctions. the CO2 went up or down after the events. Amazing how the whole planet is under a spell of misinformation. Climate is being changed on purpose with extraordinary technologies HAARP, EISCAT, SURA and chemtrails and bunker fuels- Mike Morales explains on YT AGWN. And further, there is a big takedown of DUMBs which is connected to what is going on, behind the scenes- JC Kay explains. So things are not all what they seem. God uses His Expedience? A big Scenario, ongoing. We can all win, ultimately. And 5G can possibly be ok if they use 432 hz iaw Tesla, but that is another story. Good to be wary and vigilant for now, as you say.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJMRsTcwcg&list=FLMLBrkfGvC7B4CtsfRGlqFg&index=25
CO2 and Respiration.   Biochemistry animations.  Elegance of CO2 indeed!  by Bozeman Science =  wonderful animations;  sorry about adverts one has to click off.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwymX2LxnQs&list=FLMLBrkfGvC7B4CtsfRGlqFg&index=40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwymX2LxnQs

Travel deep inside a leaf.  California Academy of Sciences.  Actual entry into microscopic structures .  Intricate and beautiful.  Click on link for YT and watch here.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-17/27artificial-leaf27-an-untapped-fuel-source/6703364

 

Artificial leaf could soon fuel the planet, Melbourne researchers say

The World Today 

By Ashley Hall

Updated 17 Aug 2015, 8:12pm

PHOTO: Photosynthesis is nature's most efficient way to make fuel (Instagram: Shelley Lloyd)

MAP: Australia

Melbourne researchers say it may only be a matter of years before the artificial leaf is fuelling every community, house and car on the planet.

The machine they have designed relies on a so-far largely untapped fuel source — hydrogen — and draws heavily on the plant process of photosynthesis, in which a plant converts sunlight into energy.

"We have to learn as much as we can from photosynthesis, which is what goes on in leafy plants, because that's where most of our energy comes from in terms of fossil fuels or current kinds of carbon materials that we use either as food or fuel," said Professor Doug MacFarlane from Monash University's School of Chemistry.

Photosynthesis is nature's most efficient way to make fuel.

"If we can learn what plants do with sunlight and use it to make carbon compounds, then we can potentially make artificially produced fuels for all of the reasons we need fuels currently," Professor MacFarlane said.

Over the years, other researchers have used a variety of metals as an artificial catalyst for the process, but many were rare and expensive.

By using nickel as the catalyst, Professor MacFarlane and his colleagues have been able separate hydrogen from water at a reasonable cost.

"Obviously the devices we're talking about are expensive to build and install," he said.

"So the efficiency in terms of producing fuel that it achieves has to be fairly high to make it worthwhile."

Success would herald 'energy revolution'

In this field of study, the process is considered to be practically efficient if 10 per cent of the solar energy used is captured as hydrogen, but the researchers have gone well beyond that.

In earlier tests they recorded 18 per cent efficiency. Now, they have reached 22.4 per cent.

"There are many catalysts that are considerably more sophisticated than nickel and often involving obscure and expensive precious metals," Professor MacFarlane said.

"So nickel is a rather ordinary catalyst in many respects expect for one thing, which is that it's cheap. It's an inexpensive metal and ... it produces a very, very stable action in its water electrolysis cell.

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"So it's an ideal choice purely and simply because of the cost."

The researchers believe the technology could be ready to use in homes within a few years and shortly after that in fuel stations.

It cannot come soon enough for the Australian National University's Professor Thomas Faunce, who has convened two global conferences on artificial photosynthesis.

He argues success in this field will herald an energy revolution.

"If we can convert all the human-made structures on the surface of the Earth, every road and house and bridge into a structure that does photosynthesis better than plants, then we can take the pressure off nature and we can have distributed food and fuel across the planet," Professor Faunce said.

The medical and science specialist is trying to establish a global project on artificial photosynthesis, like the human genome project, the Hubble Telescope and the Large Hadron Collider.

Challenge to replace old way of doing business

Professor Faunce argues such global cooperation could deliver the key to dealing with major climate change and the energy security problems facing the world's population.

But he also foresees some obstacles.

"The carbon-intensive industries like coal and oil are making vast profits from the infrastructure that they have in place," he said.

"They will be looking askance at this technology and thinking well is it something we can profit from or is it something that's going to inhibit our profits."

Professor Faunce had some advice for would-be competitors.

"Look at it carefully because this is something that if you invest in now would actually earn you vast profits, because think of what you could earn if the process had to go on of retro-engineering artificial photosynthesis and to all the structures on the surface of the Earth," he said.

"There's vast amounts of money made for the corporation prepared to take this challenge."

The research is published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.

From other news sites:

·         The Australian: Local scientists claim record in 'photosynthesis' of hydrogen

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-17/27artificial-leaf27-an-untapped-fuel-source/6703364

 

Artificial leaf could soon fuel the planet, Melbourne researchers say

The World Today 

By Ashley Hall

Updated 17 Aug 2015, 8:12pm

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Web results  re new type of chlorophyll in Stromatolites, W Australia.   elegance of CO2 indeed.


Professor Min Chen - The University of Sydney

sydney.edu.au › science › people › min.chen.php

 

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Genome and proteome of the chlorophyll f-producing cyanobacterium Halomicronema hongdechloris: Adaptative proteomic shifts under different light conditions ...


Australian scientists discover first new chlorophyll in 60 years ...

sydney.edu.au › news › newsstoryid=5463

 

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Aug 20, 2010 — The new chlorophyll was discovered deep within stromatolites - rock-like structures built by photosynthetic bacteria, called cyanobacteria - by lead author Dr Min Chen from the University of Sydney.


Photosynthesis lab - The University of Sydney

www.sydney.edu.au › life-and-environmental-sciences

 

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We focus on finding the far red light limit to bioconversion by studying genetic, ... Type to search ... This chlorophyll was first described by Prof Min Chen in 2010; it has a unique ... how wavelengths in different regions of light are absorbed and transferred to these ... Professor Min Chen; Dr Hernandez Prieto; Dr Artur Sawicki ...


A new chlorophyll – redefining photosynthesis: 2011 Science ...

www.scienceinpublic.com.au › pmlifescience11

 

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Oct 12, 2011 — Among the single-celled cyanobacteria—formerly known as blue-green algae—which live in the ancient rock-like accumulations called stromatolites in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Associate Professor Min Chen of the University of Sydney last year found the first new form of chlorophyll in 67 years.


AUSTRALIA: Scientists discover new chlorophyll - University ...

www.universityworldnews.com › post

 

Sep 5, 2010 — University of Sydney scientists have discovered the first new ... It is the fifth known type of chlorophyll and was found in stromatolites ... Lead author, Dr Min Chen from the University of Sydney, says the new chlorophyll was ...


Out of the lab, into the spotlight - Sydney Morning Herald

www.smh.com.au › Environment › Science

 

Oct 13, 2011 — The secret life of bacteria … Associate Professor Min Chen, pictured in ... Dr Chen, of the University of Sydneydiscovered last year that the ... algae, utilise a different form of chlorophyll to plants and other bacteria.


Beating Mother Nature at her own game - Sydney Morning ...

www.smh.com.au › National › Education

 

Sep 3, 2013 — The team leader, Sydney University biologist Min Chen, says scientists ... "We are already finding potential applications for the first new form of chlorophyll to be discovered in more than six decades," explains Dr Chen, whose ...


Must watch!!!!

Nature's smallest factory: The Calvin cycle - Cathy Symington  Ted x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UzMaoaXKaM&list=FLMLBrkfGvC7B4CtsfRGlqFg&index=37

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