#11 - Professor Peter Hammond - Carbon Capture and Fertilisers
The Biotech Podcast
02/18/21
•51m
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The founder of CCm technologies, Peter Hammond, talks to us this week on carbon capture machines, along with their use in producing organic fertilisers to improve soil health.
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Episode synopsis:
00:00 - Intro
01:14 - Developing ideas
14:37 - The components of a healthy soil
21:51 - Traditional fertilisers
24:44 - Measuring soil health
25:47 - Organic fertilisers
30:47 - Carbon sources
35:12 - Targeting climate change
50:30 - Extro
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#10 - Dr Rattan Lal - Using soil to combat climate change
February 11, 2021
•45m
Soil is one of the most powerful carbon sequestering tools known to man, and protecting it will lead to greater food security with higher nutritional content, better water quality and of course can also play a huge part in reducing global warming. This week Dr Ratan Lal, winner of the 2020 world food prize, talks passionately about his life's work with soil and how we need to harness this incredible ecosystem for good.
Episode synopsis:
00:00 - Soil and its qualities
6:32 - Soil is alive
11:01 - Giving back to our soils
14:59 - Measuring soil health
16:20 - Soil degradation in impoverished areas
19:35 - What drew you to soil science
24:20 - Regulating soil erosion
25:01 - Soil and its role in carbon sequestration
36:17 - Biogeochemical cycling
41:35 - Advice
44:40 - Extro
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#12 - Dr Laura Jackisch on the Future of Lab-Grown Meat
February 25, 2021
•48m
By striving to produce burgers which taste, look and smell the same as farmed beef from cultured stem cells in a lab, Mosa meat aims to change the way we look at agriculture. This week we talk to Dr Laura Jackisch from Mosa meat about the techniques used and the impacts that this technology can have on our future.
Full synopsis:
00.00 - Intro
01:40 - Cellular agriculture
7:10 - The components of a lab-grown burger
14:00 - Combining muscle and fat effectively
22:15 - Reinventing what we can eat
23:08 - The barriers holding back cellular agriculture
26:17 - Scaling up
30:25 - Social challenges
42:51 - Doubts and career advice
48:11 - Extro
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