by Crazyguy 8 Replies latest social current
So it was discovered in 2007 that there's a bacteria that's now eating plastic. Of course many years ago they found a bacteria that eats nylon. Also not to long again they discovered a fungi I believe that eats styrofoam.
But here's the thing they have also discovered recently another fungi in the Chernobyl area that's eating a radioactive substance. So maybe a mushroom type fungi will save us from our stupidity when it comes to nuclear power plants. Again thank the gods for evolution!!!
More worryingly our overuse of antibiotics and antibacterial-everything is storing up a serious crisis. As Jeff Goldblum's character said in Jurassic Park "Life will find a way".
We have an advert on UK TV for a kitchen cleaner that kills 99% of all germs. Great! The toughest 1% is left to replicate with all the nutrition and no competition.
If we can get them to excrete hydrogen, we'll be in good shape.
Or split water to extract hydrogen just as photosynthesis does effortlessly.
Molecular biologists are studying the enzyme down to the level of atoms. If we can replicate that we have unlimited, free, clean energy.
Crazyguy,
So maybe a mushroom type fungi will save us from our stupidity when it comes to nuclear power plants.
Eating radioactive material doesn't mean that the radioactivity will be neutralized, it just means that it's being absorbed.
Cofty,
Or split water to extract hydrogen just as photosynthesis does effortlessly.
If every vehicle ran on hydrogen then the minute amounts that leak out would float up towards the upper atmosphere (Like a balloon) and interact with the ozone. It would diminish it.
Everything that's done in an industrial scale has unintended consequences and has to be thought out very carefully.
So use hydrogen carefully to generate clean electricity.
Cofty
So use hydrogen carefully to generate clean electricity.
Sorry, but it only takes minute amounts and a couple of decades to have an effect. Just like chlorofluorocarbons that were being released in the tiniest of amounts. Nothing is perfectly safe except that which doesn't interact with the environment at all.
