Turning Photons Into Food

2019-10-19に共有
In this video Dr. Bruce Bugbee shows the calculations necessary to determine crop yield potential when light is the only limiting factor. This is now widely used to predict yields in indoor agriculture and vertical farming. The approach starts from the efficiency of photosynthesis (measured as quantum yield), expands to include the efficiency of respiration (called carbon use efficiency), and includes photon capture efficiency and harvest index. He uses a model called the Energy Cascade Model. This model has been used by NASA to model the size of a space farm in regenerative food production. It is also used by the USDA to calculate potential yield of agriculture on Earth.

00:52 - Acknowledging NASA and the USDA as the funding agencies for this research
01:41 - Units of calculation for food production in controlled environments
03:25 - The most important equation in the world, particularly to any life scientist
04:31 - Process of photosynthesis
06:22 - Revising how we write the equation for photosynthesis
09:13 - Calculating quantum yield
11:56 - Making ATP energy and respiration
15:15 - Realistic measurements of photons
15:52 - Energy Cascade model
18:44 - Potential yield of crops
19:42 - Exploring a paper he wrote about adding carbon dioxide to plants
20:24 - Economic analysis of indoor agriculture
23:50 - Understanding the rapidly increasing cost of photons through the market price of produce
26:39 - Example of the amount of solar panels needed to provide the energy for perfect indoor agriculture
28:48 - Peering into the future with advances in LED lights and other technology

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コメント (21)
  • So much useful information in this video ! Hats off to the professor, this is extremely impressive
  • So in Love with your high energy input, to my brain 🧠
  • Thank you soooo much for the knowledge you share. I don’t have enough time or money to go to school for agricultural and you make it possible for me to know more than common knowledge on growing. Thank you sooo much Bruce.
  • Photosynthesis... the Rube-Goldberg machine of photochemistry. We can make food at ten to 100 times the efficiency of plant based photosynthesis by making solar hydrogen, first, and then synthesizing our way up the organic chain to simple sugars and proteins. Within 20-30 years we will be doing exactly that.
  • I really love your videos Dr. Bugbee!!! you teach so well that I almost need no notes, keep with this awesome work please!!!
  • @MrAmiaffe
    I have learnt so much. This is an honest thank you <3
  • @Sect76
    Thank you Prof Bugbee, I’ve watched many of your videos and your extensive knowledge is valued. I wish I had of paid more attention to chemistry and biology in high school, I wouldn’t have to learn it all again but this time it’s fun to watch and care for a seed from germination to harvest, no better feeling really.
  • Reminded me of about 50 yrs ago, back at MIT, cool info w/out being boring or confusing!
  • Havent seen such a satisfying info input since university, thanks a lot sir.
  • Kaboom! Love it! Thanks for sharing your insights with us.
  • Raised on a farm I rarely listen to any one about cropping , BUT ..... ☝️ This guy , , amazing !!! The plant God 🌴🍀
  • 28:27 How about greenhouses with a transparent photovoltaic layer that only absorbs the wavelengths the plants can't use? Could get over 42.
  • I think there is a mistake on the efficiency of the blue light. As far as I know the lower the wavelength the efficiency decreases. until we get to 270 nm wavelength and the efficiency is at 2 percent. 460 nm wavelength depending on the source probably at 20 to 40 percent efficiency. Please feel free to correct me, if anyone has a higher efficiency LED chip on those wavelengths.
  • @ace_798
    Thank you for sharing, such a great channel.