Dave Denkenberger
Dave Denkenberger - Feeding Everyone No Matter What. U Alaska, Fairbanks. http://acep.uaf.edu/acep-news/2018/13-august-acep-this-week/acep-welcomes-new-faculty-member-dave-denkenberger.aspx . 700k people in Alaska. Mushrooms sugar and rabbits, and leaf extracts. Overlap: aquaponic greenhouse, to get to 100% food provision for 2 people, requires thinking on conversion of cellulose to starch.
- https://allfed.info/our-team/
- Catastrophe student project? Cost per calorie of food sources. $70/ dry kg? But if we do it by hand.
- Effective Altruism movement - interested in long-term future - [1]
- Joshua does experimental work, Dave does modeling. For example, sun blocking scenarios.
- How much $ would it take to safeguard from a certain risk?
- Cooperation with people out of your clan -
- Drill for rope twisting - another use of drill.
- Drill for drilling holes for mushrooms
- Teaches 2 classes per year, then some research work. (2) Then work on alternative food. (1) Org aspects where dave is director. Donates half income to allfed.org
- Effective Altruism - FB billionaire funds it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz (of SF) funds Effective Altruism.
- Open Philanthropy Foundation - https://www.openphilanthropy.org/
- McArthur Foundation? No.
- 80% chance of 10% food loss
- Leaf for life - leaf extracts - https://www.leafforlife.org/PAGES/leaf_concentrate.htm . Toxins stay out.
- Turning cellulose into sugar. Cellulosic ethanol plants. Dilute acid - and then enzyme to break cellulose into sugar. Can we do this at small scale? 6 carbon sugars from cellulose. Hemicellulose is 5 carbon sugars, which we can't digest. Ionic liquids - you can separate hemicellulose from cellulose. Hemicellulose goes to ruminants. 75% is fraction of cellulose or hemicellulose.
- Taking leaves to 40% sugar - that would be awesome. Penn state said he got 25% conversion - both 6 and 5 carbon sugars. Fungus can still convert 5 carbon sugar to ethanol.
- Mech engineering - 20 students, some of them can take on a project. Generally there has been
- 100-200 hrs per student. 3 students.
- Commercial leaf extracts do exits.
- Calista and Unibio - bacteria eat methane, and bacteria are turned into fish food.
- Baking limestone to make biodigesters - for resilience.
- Readily implementable solution with few months for providing a solution
- OSE Solution: grow Oyster Mushrooms, from wood. Need a shredder.
