Duckweed Is a Promising Feedstock of Biofuels: Advantages and Approaches

Yang, Guobin

doi:10.3390/ijms232315231

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“…Duckweed grows fast and has a great nutrient uptake. Growing it is a good way to process sewage while producing protein-rich chicken feed and potentially biofuel [21]. The former would likely require filtering out toxins first.…”

Section: Industrialized Bio-sequestrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting the Climate Narrative

Bernardy¹

2023

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The rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide is chiefly tied to land stewardship.Farmers and loggers have removed the plants that, until the industrial era, kept the soil fungi alive, kept soil emissions nearby by breaking the wind, and soaked those up. The result is plumes of carbon dioxide.Putting plants back in would curb these emissions. Farmers and loggers could address biodiversity loss in the process.Auditing the deceitful carbon accounting shows that these emissions are the only ones that matter. A chicanery hides them from view while fueling dubious activities.The contribution of fossil fuels to atmospheric carbon dioxide is small. It likely comes from emissions sources with no nearby plants, like industrial smokestacks. Bio-sequestration could curb that wasted carbon dioxide.This topsoil loss is fueling desertification. Better land stewardship would reverse the latter.Desertification, natural variability, and other man-made decisions can be confused as climate change by those who do not work with nature.In the end, the carbon accounting framework is Orwellian Newspeak. So is the language used in nature conservation. The policies that they serve to justify warrant a closer look.

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Section: Industrialized Bio-sequestrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting the Climate Narrative

Bernardy¹

2023

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Duckweed: exploring its farm-to-fork potential for food production and biorefineries

Ujong,

Naibaho,

Ghalamara

et al. 2025

Sustainable Food Technol.

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Phytoremediation of Zinc Ions from Aquatic Macrophytes

Tai,

Pang,

Steven

et al. 2024

KEM

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Heavy metal pollution has been a primary environmental concern that arises from various human activities, including industrial development and technological advancement in manufacturing processes. Conventional wastewater treatment technologies for addressing heavy metals from industrial effluents involve using expensive and hazardous chemicals, which create secondary pollution if the disposal of the used absorbent is not appropriately handled. Phytoremediation is an alternative way for wastewater treatment towards green and sustainable development. This study investigated the duckweed uptake ability from the Lemnaceae family and its surface morphology after phytoremediation. Overall, the studied duckweeds demonstrated the ability to remove the zinc ions from the synthetic wastewater with an initial zinc concentration of 10 mg/L and 300 mg/L at the ambient conditions with a 16:8 hours photoperiod. The highest zinc ions removal rate from 300 mg/L zinc synthetic wastewater was performed by Wolffia arrhiza on Day 5 (69.16 %), followed by Lemna minor (58.88 %) and Spirodela polyrhiza (50.52 %). The removal of zinc ions can be proven by the surface morphology of the duckweeds, in which numerous particles attached to the duckweeds can be observed through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images after phytoremediation. The zinc weight percent in all the studied species increased after phytoremediation. Hence, this study concludes that duckweed species can be chosen as accumulators during phytoremediation to remove zinc ions from the sources within a short period.

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Duckweed Is a Promising Feedstock of Biofuels: Advantages and Approaches

Cited by 4 publications

References 83 publications

Revisiting the Climate Narrative

Revisiting the Climate Narrative

Duckweed: exploring its farm-to-fork potential for food production and biorefineries

Phytoremediation of Zinc Ions from Aquatic Macrophytes

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