{"id":347207,"date":"2023-04-01T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=347207"},"modified":"2023-03-31T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T09:25:00","slug":"will-they-try-to-make-us-pay-for-breathable-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/04\/will-they-try-to-make-us-pay-for-breathable-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Will They Try to Make Us Pay for Breathable Air?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Tessa Lena, <a href=\"https:\/\/discernreport.com\/will-they-try-to-make-us-pay-for-breathable-air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discern Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 35%;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/discernreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Huc.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>STORY AT-A-GLANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, Australian researchers discovered an enzyme that can be used to produce electricity out of thin air<\/li>\n<li>The enzyme, called Huc, is produced by a common soil bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis<\/li>\n<li>While the research is new, according to the scientists, there is a possibility of producing the enzyme on a massive scale allowing production electricity from air<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more Read More--> TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The way it has often worked in the past, as soon as a widely available natural commodity became a \u201cresource,\u201d its wide availability cane to an end<\/li>\n<li>Our breathing may be the next commercial frontier, and clean air may become the new bottled water, if we don\u2019t stop this trend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Making Electricity Out of Thin Air<\/h2>\n<p>Bad news, folks. The scientists have discovered an enzyme that can be used to produce electricity out of thin air.<\/p>\n<p>This was just discovered, so we don\u2019t know yet whether this can be scaled as easily as they hope, but it so \u2014 this may very well be very good news for the \u201cowners\u201d controlling the energy industry \u2014 but for us, useless breathers, this is not good news at all. After all, up until now, we\u2019ve been breathing air. Just air. But now we are suddenly breathing a \u201cnatural resource,\u201d and we all know how stingy the owners of everything are about those!<\/p>\n<p>Hey, if you were a major investor in BlackRock or similarly minded self-appointed owner of \u201cassets,\u201d would this new discovery not motivate you to consider limiting the free inhaling capacity of the peasants? Those pesky peasants have been taking their breathing privilege for granted but really, should they not be a lot more considerate about their usage of a valuable resource that you turn into solid profits?<\/p>\n<p>So, would you, as a dedicated BlackRock investor, not find it irksome that over nine billions freeloader breathers and carbon exhalers \u2014 whom you don\u2019t really like! \u2014 habitually suck up your air into their useless noses, without paying you a dime for the privilege of using air? Would you not, in the face of this exciting business opportunity, seek to change \u201cthe way people think about breathing\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>And maybe, right now it is an exaggeration. Maybe I am being dramatic. But my concern is not facetious at all because this is exactly how the owners of everything think about everything \u2014 so why breathing would be an exception?<\/p>\n<div id=\"disce-1399429168\" class=\"disce-content_2\">\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\">\n<h4><strong>Massive Sale<\/strong>\u00a0on beef. Frozen for today. Freeze-dried for tomorrow. Promo code \u201cjdr\u201d at checkout for 15% off!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wholecows.com\/\">WholeCows.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Come on, come on, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tessa.substack.com\/p\/war-natural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Ocean Strategy<\/a>! Come, new markets! Come, new income streams for the BlackRock investors! And away with irresponsible, unlimited use of air resources, formerly known as breathing!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s the science. On March 7, 2023, Nature published a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-05781-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a>\u00a0titled, \u201cStructural basis for bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen.\u201d The paper is a little dense, so here is a popular rendition:<\/p>\n<p>The researchers looked at a common soil bacterium, Mycobacterium smegmatis. This bacterium uses hydrogen from the atmosphere as an energy source, especially in nutrient-poor environments. They found that the \u201cmachinery\u201d that allows the microbe to turn atmospheric hydrogen into energy is an enzyme called \u201chydrogenase,\u201d or Huc for short. They have also found that the process produces an electrical current.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers were able to isolate the enzyme by genetically modifying the bacteria. They found that even when isolated from the bacteria, Huc could consume hydrogen at concentrations far lower even than the tiny traces in the air. They also found Huc was uninhibited by oxygen, a property not seen in other hydrogen-consuming catalysts. Here is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monash.edu\/news\/articles\/scientists-discover-enzyme-that-turns-air-into-electricity,-providing-a-new-clean-source-of-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>\u00a0by Monash University:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAustralian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published in the top journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-05781-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature<\/a>, reveals that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. This finding opens the way to create devices that literally make energy from thin air.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The research team, led by Dr Rhys Grinter, PhD student Ashleigh Kropp, and Professor Chris Greening from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne, Australia, produced and analysed a hydrogen-consuming enzyme from a common soil bacterium.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve known for some time that bacteria can use the trace hydrogen in the air as a source of energy to help them grow and survive, including in Antarctic soils, volcanic craters, and the deep ocean,\u201d Professor Greening said. \u201cBut we didn\u2019t know how they did this, until now.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>In this Nature paper, the researchers extracted the enzyme responsible for using atmospheric hydrogen from a bacterium called Mycobacterium smegmatis. They showed that this enzyme, called Huc, turns hydrogen gas into an electrical current.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dr Grinter notes, \u201cHuc is extraordinarily efficient. Unlike all other known enzymes and chemical catalysts, it even consumes hydrogen below atmospheric levels \u2014 as little as 0.00005% of the air we breathe.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Laboratory work performed by Ms Kropp shows that it is possible to store purified Huc for long periods. \u201cIt is astonishingly stable. It is possible to freeze the enzyme or heat it to 80 degrees celsius, and it retains its power to generate energy,\u201d Ms Kropp said. \u201cThis reflects that this enzyme helps bacteria to survive in the most extreme environments.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Huc is a \u201cnatural battery\u201d that produces a sustained electrical current from air or added hydrogen. While this research is at an early stage, the discovery of Huc has considerable potential to develop small air-powered devices, for example as an alternative to solar-powered devices.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The bacteria that produce enzymes like Huc are common and can be grown in large quantities, meaning we have access to a sustainable source of the enzyme. Dr Grinter says that a key objective for future work is to scale up Huc production. \u201cOnce we produce Huc in sufficient quantities, the sky is quite literally the limit for using it to produce clean energy.\u201d\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Australian scientists discover how to turn air into electricity | 9 News Australia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GC3ATunzd_8?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Selling Air; a Hoax or a New Business Model?<\/h2>\n<p>I have been pondering the topic of air as a new market for a few years. It seems to me that \u201cscarcity of breathable air\u201d is a new monetization frontier. For example, up until a certain point, no sane person would seriously consider paying for still bottled water, and yet today, we often do that (even though the quality of bottled water can be debated). I think that air is next.<\/p>\n<p>And besides, scarcity of breathable air can work very nicely with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tessa.substack.com\/p\/creeps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smart masks<\/a>\u00a0that would also have an in-built air purification filter, monitor your air intake in the name of watching your breathing privilege, and of course, send your biometric data back to the mothership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discernreport.com\/will-they-try-to-make-us-pay-for-breathable-air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read More @ DiscernReport.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tessa Lena, Discern Report: STORY AT-A-GLANCE Recently, Australian researchers discovered an enzyme that can be used to produce electricity out of thin air The enzyme, called Huc, is produced by a common soil bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis While the research is new, according to the scientists, there is a possibility of producing the enzyme on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[151739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}