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As our world gets more advanced and high-tech, it also becomes increasingly fragile and at the mercy of a very complex supply chain that spans the world. A shorter of just one key element in some parts of the world can bring entire economies to their knees, and we’ve seen countless examples of this in the past few years. When it comes to batteries, and electronics things like iron and nickel are crucial and difficult to mine. But what if there was a way to mine these precious metals by growing crops? Yes, this is agromining, and it’s sort of a big deal! Breakthrough Crop Fixes Supply Chains & Lowers Costs!
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:52 The problem with Mining
02:37 Agromining!
05:10 How it Works
06:22 Benefits
08:32 Current Progress
09:18 Economic Value
11:16 Challenges
12:27 Conclusions
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How dose this effect bees and other insects? Is the nectar, sap and pollen toxic to insects? Mono-cropping is vary bad for the health of any given environment. Especially the insects that depend on them for life.
So they can do this once? Then the metal is pulled out, depreciating return for sure
Most mines are either steep open cut or underground. DOA.
The bacteria in the ocean get metals in the pure form! And gold bacteria are fresh water!
From what I had 10 years ago, not 25% but .25%, and that percent when the plant DIES!
My soil is nickel contaminated and it has made the well water and the garden difficult to work with. I would love a plant that helps clean it up! (making money is good too I guess)
Could you shred old electronics, mix with sacrificial soil, spread in contained location and plant these to extract specific waste metals?
Bad idea. Agricultural soil is already being depleted of minerals by unsustainable farming methods. What some farmers do is add rock powder to their land along with microbes to replenish the soil. Even badly degraded agricultural land can be improved this way.
My garden soil is slightly high in selenium. I Am eating less mustard greens since I learned that mustard concentrates selenium.
This would be good to "clean" the soil for other uses
Been watching the channel for a while now, and somehow this is the first time I felt like "how is this real life?"… growing metal? Sign me up!
One thought… Agromining would always involve processing 100% of the crop. In commercial farming, up to 50% of the crops can be wasted for various stupid reasons like "ugly" produce.
Why land based plants? It would make more sense to use seaweed
Amazing. Didn't know this was an option. Just not sure about incineration and added pollution in the air.
Is there a possibility of crossbreeding or taking some genes from desert plants that have super long/deep roots and put them in one of these plant species so they can get more minerals from deeper down?
Do these plants sequester co2 also?
It would be great if these crops were watered with clean out water from heavy metal processes. Such an awesome idea that deserves some more attention for sure. Maybe ever combine it with agrivoltaics to help further offset environmental impact…or even aquaponics to help with other metal or pollutant collection. Thank you sir for bringing this out to the light.
Always good stuff. Fun to watch & learn. — Small detail: When you say “two bit da Vinci” it comes out so fast it’s difficult to understand.
Wait, plants don't need metals? Our food doesn't need these nutrients?
what is the rate of production per hectare.
This is a very interesting idea for mines that are no longer producing, but how often can it be harvested? Something like a grass could yield several harvests per year, but most crops only produce once annually.
"Mother Nature's a mad scientist, Jerry!" -Cosmo Kramer
Governments need to impose breeding restrictions on their citizens, since the people themselves can clearly not be trusted to do the right thing.
So, other battery technologies WILL replace Li-Ion for BEV and grid storage because it will be too damaging to the environment because of the rare earth elements needed. So, I don't believe that growth rate of 20X in the next 30 years. It will be impossible. So, stating the impossible is pretty silly so the reality is Li-Ion will need to go back to small devices and other battery tech WILL be in use for large objects. LFP is one example, but for grid storage there are so many examples of what CAN be used it's stupid that energy companies even use Li-Ion for that purpose, or should I say install Tesla grid storage which will lead to an environmental nightmare.
Is it possible with with human waste sludge, to leave it in an area where most of the pathogens with time have gone, then apply this technology to the concentrated elements of SH!T ?
Carbon capture is another potential thing that could be combined with this concept to make it more economic and capture carbon
To me the most intriguing idea behind agro-mining is cleaning up soil, turning unusable land into usable.
Sounds good just for farmers in general.
Every decade or so, swap in an assortment of super concentrator weeds to pull out the accumulated heavy metals and other toxins from the ground for a season: then harvest. Till the ground several feet to get at the rest of the toxins being cycled, run another crop of the weeds, and harvest again. Normal crops can flourish again.
It should be said that many ultramafic soils support rare ecosystems, often with endemic species. Let's work on cleaning up our own messes before we exploit more natural areas we haven't figured out how ruin in our rush to a 'better' future. Please.
Would herbivores mistakenly eat them thinking they are a proper food source? If so are there steps to make the plant unpalatable to the dumbest of animals? If not, wouldn't heavy metal poisoning affect the local animal population? What if carnivores eat the dying or dead animals that were eating the plants? Could they get heavy metal poisoning from the corpses?
As always, a very good video on a topic I knew nothing about. Thank you!
This is a good idea, plasma gassification of municipal and agricultural waste could extract minerals also, oceanic thermal energy conversion can be used to produce fresh water and extract minerals and metals from the ocean with flash desalinization.
You could use hyper accumulators to clean up water like runoff from mines by growing them hydroponically
Interesting stuff. Please keep us updated.
That sounds like a good idea for high recycling more than mining new material. It needs that very dispersed elements needs a first process to disolved and mixed with fertilizers for this kind of crops.
Then, the plants will be process to a first extraction cycled from the most concentrated plant.
Later you burn the rest of the plant, and the ashes will be recycled with new dispersed material to go to the first stage again in a eternal cycle.
Because the plants are good on concentration, while at the same time produce biomass that could be burned and reprocess CO2 for e-fuels, this could work as a virtuous final recycling stage (the first cycle more direct mechanisms for materials more concentrated where that systems get better results than the very disperse recuperation though agromining)
With this at full developed mechanism, we could reach high recycling (>95%). With other low concentration extraction from dispersed natural sources to add another 5%, we could reach a 100% closed cycle of elements, turn our civilization into a 100% sustainable path (at least from material need).
A lot development needed, but the perspectives are great.
Combine these or genetically spliced plants with ones that are especially good in hydroponic/aquaponic systems. The potential for cleaning up the many polluted riverways and other large bodies of water seems endless. With the right types of accumulators, slowing, stopping, or reversing many of the issues with climate change and the ocean may be feasible at large scale, while being profitable for the folks doing the work.
I could see where bio-engineering would also become another area of development. Amazing how solutions are formed out of necessity.
FYI: I suspect this research is based on research on bio remediation of waste sites from the nuclear weapons industry. I recall them experimenting with using plants to extract some of the metals ouit of the soil.
I suspect one of the challanges will be stopping the extracted metals from flying away as fly ash in the incinerators. Even with electrostatic participators, staying under the EPA guidelines may be difficult.
Has there been any research into using these plants on the mining tailings or on garbage? These sources may have concentrations too low for conventional recovery, but the plants may make it viable.
Keep up the great work, I like seeing out of the box solutions to problems.
One big issue is a plot of land is going to yield less and less over time unless you dump metal rich soil onto the field, so you'd have to keep moving whenever it became unprofitable.
Either that or somehow till up the soil deep enough that you mix in fresh material every so often, which would still eventually get to where it yields unprofitable amounts even after tilling.
The other obvious downside is we're already having water shortages, and we're already splitting farm land between human food, livestock corn, ethanol corn, and now mining with farms too?
As good of an idea as it is, it would have to be implemented in a way that doesn't lead to not enough food being grown for human consumption down the line.
It seems like it would be great for currently untapped land areas in regions with plenty of water so it's not sacrificing anything for agromining.
I recall a feature about the Water Hyacinth being used to (a) extract the toxic metals from water but also then (b) be a source of biomass for power generation.
Tiberium from Command and Conquer!
And there is the rub, after a couple of growing seasons the bioaccumulators are going to extract out most of them nickel in the soil and then yields will drop. This begs the question about recouping capital cost.
As for nickel mining, it’s time to get serious about mining manganese nodules.
Next video idea: tires
Good year is working on a tire that is 90% sustainable and it has passed regulatory testing for road use.
Sounds great, but what about the co2 and possibly other gases coming from BURNING the plants?
Next up Aquatic-Agromining!? I vaguely recall a scifi-novel had an offhand comment about coral reefs which had been genetically engineered to extract gold from seawater.
Hail to the purity that is Tiberium!
There's a better group of agrimining species that could be used: fungi. They're much better at breaking down and extracting nearly ALL inorganic matter not just a narrow range of metals, they grow faster than plants, and their hyphae (roots) go much deeper and can penetrate solid rock layers. In fact, fungi were the original creators of soil on early Earth. They're so effective that researchers in Ukraine were experimenting with using them to extract fallout from soil around Chernobyl.