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Writer's pictureOm Deshmukh

Revive The Ocean using Protocell

Updated: Jun 30, 2019


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Things are heating up and dying off above and below the water line. If it continues, species will interact with each other in a not friendly way. Carbon dioxide buildup, ocean acidification, carbonation of the water, oxygen loss, glacial melts, and fish population changes are just some of the implications that are manifesting. Unless we address this, these problems will multiply for coastal communities and for the natural world. We depend on fish, and now fish depend on us to survive.


Two billion people rely on fish to live. Coastal communities are intimately connected to what happens below the water line. Change in ocean temperature can cause fish migration, fish depletion, fish overabundance, that may be a short term gain for some communities, but a current and long term loss for everyone else.


Here’s our plan: Combining biodiversity, programmable protocell smart material robotics, and art to create a domed unit that will recreate a mobile ‘coral reef’ (region specific) that can sustain, protect, and grow underwater habitats. Our Dome will be grown from protocells (chemicals with life-like properties like lipid membranes), acting as a “carbon sink” to create a safe haven for an oxygen rich zone and increase the pH (to become more basic); where fish and marine life could bloom. In other words, the protocell used in the dome is a life-like matter from synthesized chemicals engineered to behave like organic microorganisms. We will integrate bioluminescence into our structure to attract indigenous fish to repopulate our communities.


The Purposes of Our Domed Units:

TO MITIGATE GLOBAL WARMING

1) Increase oxygen levels

2) Harness bioluminescence to attract fish

3) Increase pH levels of the water to reduce ocean acidification through lessening the amount of carbonate (weak acid) in the ocean

4) Decrease CO2 levels in the air and water


TO ENHANCE HUMAN LIFE

5) To save the economic lifeblood of coastal communities

6) To protect coastal communities from climatic and geographical instability


MARINE LIFE SUSTAINABILITY

7) To revitalize ocean dead spots


Our domed unit will be region-specific, taking in the factors of geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, and climate change for places such as Iceland, India, China, and the USA. Against increased wave activity which will come with global warming, our dome unit will provide a coral reef-like barrier to protect coastal barriers.

Human languages are disappearing, and with them disappears music, song, history, culture, and memory. The world grows more silent. Now another kind of language is on the verge of extinction.  We’ve heard its mysterious cry for help, its song manifesting in dead spots all around the world, from Chile to the Middle East. We want to sing this song too, so it is heard and fixed. We are learning its composition, its melody through the layers of water. This story needs to be told, and now. Because a world without language is a world without life.


Our protocell is a new technology that can sense degradation of ocean habitats, and also revitalize and renew oxygen levels, which will attract marine flora. With the neutralization of carbonate, shellfish will be able to express their important functions and life spans within ecosystems. Our dome is region-specific and in its’ fullness, can become a permanently implanted coral reef village.


We need a symbiosis between robotics and nature so that they work not in competition, but in support of each other. The Earth has a natural cycle of healing, but dead zones have eroded and destroyed this natural way to heal. Intervention is required, so that the normal patterns of Earth’s health can begin again, using our living system robotics as a lightning rod. Our technology will have an understanding of nature’s rhythm and necessities, culminating in a technology able to listen to the song of the ocean and respond in the correct way, enabling that song to continue.


We will plant our domed units in different locations (Iceland, New Jersey, India, China) to revitalize actual dead spots and target future problem areas. Gathering data from different regions, we will predict which areas are in danger. This would enable the domed unit to prevent the formation of dead zones, as well as revive them. We are first detecting the problem, recording the problem, and then solving the problem with a single unit.


Fish means food. Oxygen means life. Our protocell, custom-designed for different temperatures, pH’s, organisms, and regions will become villages -- in three to five years, deployable and part of global marine health and governmental sustainability projects. The impact will touch billions and will reach on into the future. Our non-invasive, symbiotic protocell will become part of the architectural fabric of the earth- as a tree, as a flower, as nature. Oceans touch all coastlines and acidification does not respect borders, so our scale is global.


We cab serve billions with our solution, from the small Icelandic fishermen to the Tokyo sushi chef. We aren’t just helping coastal communities- we are aiding everyone who eats fish and everyone who needs clean water. We are building bridges between Spain and Iceland, for as the planet warms, migration patterns change, threatening indigenous fish populations. Some areas win, and some lose. We are a global peaceful army, fish for everybody is our motto. Divided, we can’t fish. We are there at their breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We are fillets, we are smoked salmon, we are eel and Icelandic haddock.We will be there where water touches earth, to continue the breath of life.





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