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From the Ted Talk by Bilal Bomani: Plant fuels that could power a jet

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So, we have a seed to fuel program. We have to do something with this biomass that we have. And so we do G.C. eixrotcatn, lipid optimization, so on and so forth, because our goal really is to come up with the next gteoearnin of aviation fuels, aviation specifics, so on and so forth. So far we talked about water and fuel, but along the way we found out something interesting about Salicornia: It's a food product. So we talk about ideas worth spreading, right? How about this: In sub-Saharan arcifa, next to the sea, saltwater, barren desert, how about we take that plant, plnat it, half use for food, half use for fuel. We can make that happen, inexpensively. You can see there's a greenhouse in Germany that sells it as a health food product. This is havteesrd, and in the middle here is a shrimp dish, and it's being pickled. So I have to tell you a joke. sinilocraa is known as sea beans, saltwater asparagus and pickle weed. So we are pklciing pkcile weed in the middle. Oh, I thought it was funny. (lgaehtur) And at the bottom is seaman's mustard. It does make sense, this is a logical snack. You have mutsrad, you are a seaman, you see the halophyte, you mix it together, it's a great snack with some crrcaeks. And last, garlic with Salicornia, which is what I like. So, water, fuel and food.

Open Cloze


So, we have a seed to fuel program. We have to do something with this biomass that we have. And so we do G.C. __________, lipid optimization, so on and so forth, because our goal really is to come up with the next __________ of aviation fuels, aviation specifics, so on and so forth. So far we talked about water and fuel, but along the way we found out something interesting about Salicornia: It's a food product. So we talk about ideas worth spreading, right? How about this: In sub-Saharan ______, next to the sea, saltwater, barren desert, how about we take that plant, _____ it, half use for food, half use for fuel. We can make that happen, inexpensively. You can see there's a greenhouse in Germany that sells it as a health food product. This is _________, and in the middle here is a shrimp dish, and it's being pickled. So I have to tell you a joke. __________ is known as sea beans, saltwater asparagus and pickle weed. So we are ________ ______ weed in the middle. Oh, I thought it was funny. (________) And at the bottom is seaman's mustard. It does make sense, this is a logical snack. You have _______, you are a seaman, you see the halophyte, you mix it together, it's a great snack with some ________. And last, garlic with Salicornia, which is what I like. So, water, fuel and food.

Solution


  1. generation
  2. africa
  3. harvested
  4. extraction
  5. pickle
  6. pickling
  7. laughter
  8. salicornia
  9. mustard
  10. crackers
  11. plant

Original Text


So, we have a seed to fuel program. We have to do something with this biomass that we have. And so we do G.C. extraction, lipid optimization, so on and so forth, because our goal really is to come up with the next generation of aviation fuels, aviation specifics, so on and so forth. So far we talked about water and fuel, but along the way we found out something interesting about Salicornia: It's a food product. So we talk about ideas worth spreading, right? How about this: In sub-Saharan Africa, next to the sea, saltwater, barren desert, how about we take that plant, plant it, half use for food, half use for fuel. We can make that happen, inexpensively. You can see there's a greenhouse in Germany that sells it as a health food product. This is harvested, and in the middle here is a shrimp dish, and it's being pickled. So I have to tell you a joke. Salicornia is known as sea beans, saltwater asparagus and pickle weed. So we are pickling pickle weed in the middle. Oh, I thought it was funny. (Laughter) And at the bottom is seaman's mustard. It does make sense, this is a logical snack. You have mustard, you are a seaman, you see the halophyte, you mix it together, it's a great snack with some crackers. And last, garlic with Salicornia, which is what I like. So, water, fuel and food.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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glenn research 2
aviation fuels 2
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closed photobioreactor 2
closed photobioreactors 2
large scale 2
pond systems 2
lipid content 2
climatic adaptation 2
food product 2
pickle weed 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
greenlab research facility 2
open pond systems 2

Important Words


  1. africa
  2. asparagus
  3. aviation
  4. barren
  5. beans
  6. biomass
  7. bottom
  8. crackers
  9. desert
  10. dish
  11. extraction
  12. food
  13. fuel
  14. fuels
  15. funny
  16. garlic
  17. generation
  18. germany
  19. goal
  20. great
  21. greenhouse
  22. halophyte
  23. happen
  24. harvested
  25. health
  26. ideas
  27. inexpensively
  28. interesting
  29. joke
  30. laughter
  31. lipid
  32. logical
  33. middle
  34. mix
  35. mustard
  36. optimization
  37. pickle
  38. pickled
  39. pickling
  40. plant
  41. product
  42. program
  43. salicornia
  44. saltwater
  45. sea
  46. seaman
  47. seed
  48. sells
  49. sense
  50. shrimp
  51. snack
  52. specifics
  53. spreading
  54. talk
  55. talked
  56. thought
  57. water
  58. weed
  59. worth