How Is Johnathan Trent's Impact On The Environment

On the contrary, Johnathan Trent focuses on the innovative products that are being built to attack the pollution problem. Trent claims he set out to find a “biofuel which would compete with fossil fuels but did not compete with agriculture for water, fertilizer or land” (Trent). This shows how his invention will have a significant impact on the source from which humanity will derive its energy. Trent includes vague explained results from his experiment. Granted that this is a TED talk, the results he includes give one insight to the productivity of the invention. For instance, “it would produce 2,000 gallons [of biofuel from microalgae in waste water] per acre per year, it would produce over 2 million gallons of fuel, which is about 20 percent of the biodiesel,” by including these results Trent indicates

Moreover, Trent discusses other biofuels which are currently used in the market. For example, “soybean makes 50 gallons per acre per year… microalgae contribute between 2,000 and 5,000 gallons per acre per year,” the incorporation of these statistics reinforce Trent’s proposition, to introduce this product into the market place and making it [microalgae as a biofuel] a part of our lives. The statistics also allow one to take into context how much more productive and useful the microalgae are, compared to our current sources of biofuel. Trent tested his experiment in San Francisco and used waste water as a source for the microalgae. He states that “San Francisco has 900 miles under the city, and the waste water is released offshore,” Trent implies that instead of progressing the damage we cause the environment and further negatively develop the problem with water pollution, we could use that waste water to supply us with