The Origin of Chitose’s name and logo<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nFood and fuel are absolutely indispensable resources and should be conserved in order for human beings to live prosperously in the future a thousand years from now.<\/span><\/p>\nAll organic matters comes from solar energy<\/b><\/h2>\n
By the way, why do we use food and fuel?<\/span><\/p>\nIt is to obtain “energy”.<\/span><\/p>\nWe use energy from “organic matters” contained in food and fuel.<\/span><\/p>\nActually, all the energy contained in organic matters comes from solar energy.<\/span><\/p>\nThe natural process performed by plants called “photosynthesis” is the gateway to convert solar energy into the form of organic matters and incorporating it on to the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n\u203bNote: Fossil fuels such as petroleum and natural gas are organic matters that were produced by photosynthesis a long time ago and have changed in form over millions of years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe need a large amount of “photosynthesis”<\/b><\/h2>\n
Due to worldwide population growth and improvement in living standards, it is estimated that food (especially protein) and energy demands are increasing dramatically and supply will become insufficient in the future at the current rate that we are consuming them.<\/span><\/p>\nTo solve this problem, it is necessary to produce organic matters (biomass) that can be utilized as food and fuel more efficiently and more sustainable than ever before.<\/span><\/p>\nSince organic matters are what solar energy has changed in form, it is necessary to have enough solar energy as a premise, but we do not have to worry about this point.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/Energy-balance-of-mankind-1-1024x602.png\")
\nThus, it is necessary to increase the amount of “photosynthesis” that converts solar energy falling on the earth into organic matters, for sustainable prosperity of mankind.<\/span><\/p>\nHowever, the increase of food and fuel demands cannot be covered only by expanding conventional agriculture-based biomass production (agriculture in land), since the land available as farmland is limited and no prospect of actually improving the productivity has yet emerged.<\/span><\/p>\nIn this situation, what is noteworthy is “algae”.<\/span><\/p>\nWhy is “algae” best for increasing the amount of photosynthesis?<\/b><\/h2>\n
Why should we focus on “algae” to increase the amount of available photosynthesis?
\n<\/span>There are three major reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/Three-benefits-of-algae-1024x602.png\")
\n\u2460\u00a0Extremely high productivity<\/b><\/h3>\n
In order to sustain their body on the ground, plants share much of the energy synthetised by photosynthesis with skeleton parts, such as root, stem, leaves, etc. On the other hand, since algae live in water and do not have to form skeletons, they can use \u00a0the energy needed to synthesize proteins and oils, that humans can utilize, more efficiently and in greater quantities than plants. This is the reason why the productivity of algae is much higher than that of plants.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2461\u00a0No limitation of location<\/b><\/h3>\n
Algae can be cultured basically anywhere as long as there is water and light. For this reason, it is possible to effectively utilize lands where plants do not grow and are not currently used, such as deserts and wastelands. In other words, it can be separated from agriculture in terms of utilization of land. In fact, algae which humans use for practical purposes are currently cultured mainly on the lands that cannot be used as farmland.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2462\u00a0Effective utilization of water resources<\/b><\/h3>\n
Algae tend to give the impression that they use a large amount of water, but they can actually be cultured with much less water resources than what is usually required for agriculture. In agriculture, most of the water sprinkled on farmland evaporates into the air or permeates underground, whereas in algae culture, only the evaporation from the water surface occurs. In addition, it is possible to use brackish water or seawater as water resources other than freshwater if species grown in seawater are chosen.<\/span><\/p>\n\u30fb
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In this article,\u00a0<\/span>I have shared with you the fact that food and fuel will run short in the near future, <\/span>that we need to increase the photosynthesis amount in order to solve the problem,\u00a0<\/span>and that algae are optimal for increasing photosynthesis.<\/span><\/p>\nBy the way, food and fuel are not the only fields where algae display their great ability.<\/span>
\nVarious organic matters produced by photosynthesis in algae can be utilized not only as food and fuel but also as materials in various industrial fields.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/Industrial-potential-of-algae-1024x602.png\")
\nIn the next article, <\/span>Vol. 2 <\/span>Chitose\u2019s algae projects<\/b><\/a>, I will introduce in detail the projects that we are working on.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People are endeavouring to solve various issues by means of various technologies in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":{"0":"post-211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-activity","8":"tag-algae","9":"one-column","10":"ar-one-column","11":"au-one-column"},"category_name":"ACTIVITY","featured_image":{"src":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/thumbnail_mozikara-1-1024x493.jpg","width":1024,"height":493},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.chitose-bio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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