Project Details

The Challenge | Warming Planet, Cool Ideas

Your challenge is to examine existing space and Earth projects and systems and adapt them into specific technologies that help stabilize or improve the Earth’s weather, and/or eliminate processes that cause global warming. Your solution could be a technology, a movement, an idea – let your imagination have no bounds!

Co2 Eating Bactria

Our idea is based on recovering (CO2) into other useful products and recycle these to get a useful impacts.

La La Land

Abstract

As our category named "Living in our world", so we must look around us about our land's problems or disasters. We searched about the most important and recent problems that we find the problem of Amazon's forest fire by using a kind of bacteria called "C. Thermothellum" which will destroy the chains of cellulose to produce (formate and end product including CO2). our idea is depends on reversed reaction by putting the bacteria under special conditions which will make the bacteria reuse CO2.

Introduction

Speaking about the monster which causes these problems, Global warming, It's the name of problem we tried to solve. It depends on our green-house enemy (CO2) so we want to save our earth from its danger. Clostridium thermocellum can ferment cellulosic biomass to formate and other end products, including CO2. This organism lacks formate dehydrogenase (Fdh), which catalyzes the reduction of CO2 to formate. C. thermocellum culture, indicating the presence of an uncharacterized pathway capable of converting CO2 to formate. the new modifying which we add is to make the reaction going backwardly insted of CO2, it will produce H2, Acetate, Formate and Lactate.

Solution

We want to consume (CO2) and make it reusable in a good way by using a thermophilic bacterium which called: clostridium thermocellum (C.T.) its cellulolytic and had the ability to convert a cellulosic substrate into products including (CO2) by using the process of fermentation and live in anaerobic, thermophilic environments and will most likely interact with organisms that have cellulose such as eukaryotic plants.

Link presentation

https://prezi.com/p/xl4-fbfarnza/

Code link

https://github.com/moamen16077/LaLa_Land

video link

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ubPcpd95bC4WBKb4BTlRMu_8nxBkONzz