Plants
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Pollan: Plants can be anesthetized with the same chemicals that sedate humans
“The other thing that kind of blew my mind was you can anesthetize plants.”
Synthetic fuel production is 100 times more land-efficient than biological photosynthesis
“Plants are great. Even this plastic one here but their net throughput efficiency is about a hundred times lower than a synthetic process like the one we're using in terms of like, Area of land into reduced carbon fuel.”
Handmer: Solar Panels Convert Sunlight to Energy 100x More Efficiently Than Plants
“Converting sunlight into energy about a hundred times more efficiently than plants do, and electricity is quite a bit more useful than corn.”
Flatt: AI and Robotics Will Enable Manufacturing Reshoring to the US
“If you can shrink the labor component many of those plants can come back to where the demand is specifically I'd say the United States.”
Puri: Plant biohacking startups leveraging AI will be highly successful
“I think that there's gonna be some really successful startups that take AI and the concept of biohacking and then use plants as their focus, as their target market, rather than humans.”
Cabiyo: Plants photosynthesize about 400 gigatons of CO2 every year
“If you look at, like, a global scale, actually plants photosynthesize about 400 gigatons of CO₂ every year, and that actually shows up in, like, our CO₂ readings.”
Hawkins: Plant-fungal symbiosis acts as an economic market with resource cheaters
“So describing it as this reciprocal exchange where, like in our own economy, you can get cheetahs you can get fungi that give more than they take or take more than they give. And, you know, like with everything it seems to depend. It depends on the partners in…”
Hawkins: Mycorrhizal fungi were colonizing land plants 450 million years ago
“We know from the fossil record that by the time plants moved out of an aquatic environment, so the sea, onto land, we know that this partnership already existed. So the fungi are really, really old. How old exactly? We don't know. But we know by about four hun…”
Steyer: Siting and construction delays mean nuclear fusion won't impact until 2040
“And I think people feel as if they can break through on the engineering in the next 10 years, then that would have real impact, because then you have to site, build, plants. That takes a really long time. I'm sure there'd be a lot of pressure to do it faster. …”
Blanchett: Regular indoor plants do not clean the air
“Plants actually don't clean the air. We think they do, but they don't.”
Cataldo: Bottled water plants cost $5M to $10M on average
“On average, the plant alone Cost around like five to ten million dollars and then everything else goes up from there.”
Pat Brown: Meat's core biomolecules can be replicated from plants
“Really what it comes down to is the components that are in meat, you know, the amino acids, the other small molecules lipids, many of the proteins are extremely conserved. They're found in plants as well as animals and so forth. It seemed to me that if we coul…”
Scola: Sap flow monitoring isolates true water stress from other resource deficits
“By diagnosing the water flow, you can sense when the plant is actually in need of water, and if the need gets too severely limiting, the plant will underperform. But you can also see if the plant is not in need of water, but still underperforms, you can then p…”