Halophytes: How To Solve The Land, Water, Food, Energy & Climate Emergency While Generating Wealth
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Society is beset with human engendered climate and ecosystem issues, which are approaching existential. Solutions for such are sought, and from the experience with renewable energy development, such solutions are instituted far more readily if they are profitable. Halophytes - salt plants grown on cheap land (deserts and wastelands) using cheap water (saline, seawater) pumped by cheap photovoltaics - uniquely provides the requisite scale and effects to solve land, water, food, energy, and climate problems.

The use of Halophytes as a solution to climate and ecosystem issues brings into production vast new regions; some 44% of our land is deserts/wastelands. There are some 10,000 different Halophyte, which can grow massive amounts of food, release large amounts of the 70% of fresh water now used for agriculture to direct human use. We could literally green the planet and remove CO2 from the atmosphere since Halophytes sequester some 18% of their CO2 uptake. Halophytes are biomass, and can be used for green fuels and petrochemical feed stocks, obviating the need for petroleum based production of such. Overall, the business, climate, and ecosystem benefits are extraordinary. No new technology is required, impacts on climate and ecosystem are prompt and inexpensively obtained.

Speaker:

Dennis Bushnell is responsible for Technical Oversight and Advanced Program formulation for a major NASA Research Center with technical emphasis in the areas of Atmospheric Sciences and Structures, Materials, Acoustics, Flight Electronics/Control/Software, Instruments, Aerodynamics, Aerothermodynamics, Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion, Computational Sciences and Systems Optimization for Aeronautics, Spacecraft, Atmospheric Science, Space Exploration and Space Access .

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Honorary Fellow of the AIAA, Fellow of ASME and the Royal Aeronautical Society. AIAA Sperry and Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Awards , AIAA Dryden Lectureship, Royal Aeronautical Society Lanchester, Swire and Wilber and Orville Wright Lectures, ICAS Guggenheim Lecture, Israel Von Karman Lecture. His contributions to National Programs include Sprint, HSCT/SST, FASTSHIP, Gemini, Apollo, RAM, Viking, X15, F-18E/F (patent holder for the “fix” to the wing drop problem), Shuttle, NASP, Submarine/Torpedo Technology, Americas’ Cup Racers, Navy Rail Gun, MAGLEV Trains and Planetary Exploration. Dennis' technical Specialties include Flow Modelling and Control across the Speed Range, Drag Reduction, Advanced Configuration Aeronautics, Aeronautical Facilities, Advanced Power and Energy, Planetary Exploration, Commercial Deep Space, Future Warfare and Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion.

Date
Monday, 04 October 2021

Time
16:00 - 16:45 BST

Cost
Free

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    Dennis Bushnell
    Chief Scientist
    NASA Langley Research Centre
Chairman:
  • Simon Mills
    Simon Mills
    Senior Research Partner
    Z/Yen Group