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helping hand to our microbiological cousins to incorporate plastic into the biome | |
An engineered solution to cut, chop up, hash plastic with the surface area and shape for colonization ( for some reason I was thinking colon-isation ). The idea goes like this, if the shape is such that bacteria want to form colonies on then possibly, out of evolution's magic dresser, there might be
some cracking enzymes fit for purpose.
The better the shape the more colonies and the greater the possible mutational combinatorial outcome.
I am thinking that if a surface can be engineered that can be disliked by colonies then the corollary is possible.
Seeing wasted plastic bits as a very stored energy resource might be the way to go.
Brompton Bicycle
https://en.wikipedi...ki/Brompton_Bicycle
A shorter cycle, particularly when folded. [8th of 7, Feb 17 2018]
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"Mutational combinatorial outcome" sounds
ominous." + |
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It will probably happen anyway at a extended time frame. |
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//Seeing wasted plastic bits as a very stored energy
resource// By far the most effective way to recycle plastic
is to burn it for power generation. It has more or less the
same energy density as oil and, with the right design, can
be burned as cleanly as oil. This makes much more sense -
environmentally - than trying to recycle umpteen different
types of plastic to make more low-grade plastic, whilst
burning perfectly good oil for power. |
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But the way I see it, the oil was food stock for the bacteria anyway. We are, by burning fuel stocks, just shorting the cycles. |
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What, like a Brompton folder or something ? <link> |
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Nah, that's short sir-cussing cycles. Penny-furthering would be the cycle pathway. |
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I trust we're combining the "fractional distillation" and "Wallace &
Gromit" senses of "cracking"? |
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"Mmmmmm .... spot of amylase, Gromit ?" |
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//burn it for power generation// |
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Sometimes I wonder what will happen if bacteria ever evolve to take
advantage of this energy source. Once they've finished off the North
Pacific Gyre, it surely won't be long before they start eating all our
stuff. |
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By that time, we have moved on to printing diamond, or any rock to hand. |
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"Mmmmmm .... spot of amethyst, Gromit ?" |
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