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Am learning about regreening deserts and sequester carbon in the soil to promote microbiota and wildlife diversity and enhance the carbon cycle, not play games that amount to funding the best team of college grads who can faff about on tech dreams for a couple of years. https://t.co/mB1MPRW8aQ
A big win would be to focus on things that don't need exotic metals to be mined out of the land at oz/kiloton. The amount of fuel that goes into mining, drilling, and shipping/processing ore is ridiculous.https://t.co/z8TGAYjCLF
If we had tech that helped us stop draining / flooding peat bogs, causing them to light on fire or decompose improperly, that would be a huge impact.Force amplifier.>Peat bogs hold approximately one-quarter of the carbon stored in land plants and soilshttps://t.co/prSpBLTGsC
The other thing on that wik page is about regenerative agriculture and it's role in aiding carbon sequestration.There are reasons why I am making jokes and exploring recycling my pee.https://t.co/Yt6pgooyuQ
"Meat production bad, vegetable production sustainable, these memes that fly thru Facebook all the time. […] is true of modern conventional industry production. But if you actually look at regenerative agriculture and how to do these things properly…"https://t.co/GsuHHQtw2w
Nail it, then scale it.Do you know how much your piss weighs?https://t.co/lzQRTZxtLQ
You can get sustainable gloves that can be fermented in a biodigester if you don't want to get your hands dirty.https://t.co/9MvjguukOy
I'm literally playing with my own feces and urine to figure out how to minimize methane production of my own bowel movements. One day I wanna stick my hand up a cows ass to harvest bacteria and see if I can make so they stop belching out methane. https://t.co/23n4m5KtZN
I learn more from veterinarian science than I do from human science. People will just go and cut a hole in the side of a cow so we can shove bacteria in them.We also pull bacteria out & use calf stomach enzymes to make cheese.Dairy farming is intense.https://t.co/QVXDQ7qAPS
My idea mazes have idea mazes.https://t.co/5UT4OzSxZQ
Have you even looked at the kind of moon-shot problem x-prize style bullshit are actually good at solving?Fucking feel good fads makes you think donating money to a prize is actually doing something?https://t.co/zKzzoZXzE9
I've wanted robotic drones to colonize mars since 2010.Get on my level.https://t.co/qBVlRoSAtp
Everything I do in some way resolves around the idea of solving carbon problem.https://t.co/2cMbfa7wi9
I see us marching toward extinction, and I get shit on for wanting to use a straw so I don't choke to death.https://t.co/hpSRv0iBlKSo I look up how to make straws out of chitin years ago.https://t.co/T7zhXpZQ9G And get ahead of the wyss institute.https://t.co/bSxxSA1loK
Why do you think I know so much about chitinase?https://t.co/eXwcCYNmcI
You think I'm doing this for fun? No.I think we're all going to fucking die and I have endless amounts of existential dread and anxiety.https://t.co/n2fp4vwAr2
I can't find thread, but I have a tweet about how I do all my best work when i'm avoiding stuff. Is a comment on how my anxiety drives me into a weird displacement activity where I calm down by doing research / learning and then start channeling my muse.https://t.co/7sIcqXKxxc
I wouldn't spend 100M on a contest. I know everything about that incentive system and how it works and even the same memes that inspired it before xprize existed. It stems from a cute game from the oil and gas industry used to avoid paying people for ideas.Stop being dumb.
There are already entire degree fields about fixing climate change. Would make more sense to do if there wasn't an interest in topic, but role of prize incentive driving attention in the larger memetic landscape isn't needed now. Its a waste of money. It's just masturbation.
Have you tried to @BuildSoil?https://t.co/skzPvxUpmA
I collect chestnuts when I go on walks now. Like a squirrel.https://t.co/ERO05YY8AB
Predictable patterns can be compressed.https://t.co/OukjvZis8s
How much carbon can we store in the soil via root systems?https://t.co/NEtBBQG7Ue
People don't understand how trees work"A tree stump without leaves shouldn't be able to survive on its own. In a New Zealand forest, however, two researchers recently found a leafless stump defying death."https://t.co/kyAOUPN1Ti https://t.co/Ja5LtkILzM
"The American chestnut is not extinct. It survives in the wild in the form of root systems and stump sprouts. There are also ongoing efforts to develop trees that are resistant to the disease."https://t.co/CZIzgPui9R@WoodIsGood6 how do we bring them back?
I wanna figure out how to get squirrels to grow trees for me.https://t.co/pcq8EkD9qJhttps://t.co/3co1tZmrbg
"“What do we know about mycorrhizae and the American chestnut tree?” would be … Not Much."https://t.co/70F3Uxqrdg
"[...] By understanding which mycorrhizal associates are beneficial for a successful chestnut stand, future research can focus on how these mycorrhizae can be utilized and applied to facilitate reforestation of this once majestic tree."
Yes! This is really important. I fully support this idea.https://t.co/wmIyhsY7Qd
A lot of geologic process are secretly just bacterial and fungal systems over very long stretches of time.It's why I investigate clay and filters. I wanna grow bacteria/fungal colonies that chelate metals from teh ecosystem.https://t.co/sqE5kUMuJ1
I think too much about how do this at scale."As a consequence of their small size and diverse metabolic capabilities bacteria, more than any other type of living organism, are able to interact intimately with metal ions present in their environment."https://t.co/JpdJeD4PwC
My best friend wants to grow algae. We spoke about this in 2012 as a way of cleaning nuclear disaster sites.https://t.co/WM5Pvp0Fnj
Mimic life.Did you know the "Schmitt trigger", a common electrical signal conditioning circuit, was inspired by studying squid nerves? https://t.co/mTRVZtNZNhGet on my level.https://t.co/x0ndW151w8
What I've learned about biomimicry in robots:A) Most Locomotion mechanics are an aspect of physical / passive dynamics.B) Most neural control systems are localized + semi automaticC) They're buildable w/ a laser cutter, 3d printer, & basic materials.https://t.co/CjQqHD2m0b
What happens if you turn a carbon sync into a carbon source?https://t.co/fuFKToOkvR
"This suggests if sustainable developments to restore these ecosystems aren’t implemented in future, drying peatlands would add the equivalent of 860 million tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year by 2100."https://t.co/i5vd5OBtbBhttps://t.co/TY5ABsG1KN
This video from 2015 shows a guy who actually built a biosphere using fish tanks. Something he points out that few people realize is that you gotta have the aquatic ecosystem (Aquarium) to fully cycle the air.https://t.co/CvBosdV5S6https://t.co/AcAjuWgVtw
Let's make a prize for the team who builds something neat. And fun merit badge trophy on how you participated. Maybe if you're lucky someone will use your tech you poured your life into, but It will probably just sit on a shelf and rot. This ok with you?https://t.co/Q7j2HLlkKK https://t.co/IXfNZ4prci
Incentives in this space are asinine. Fraud and manufactured science isn't the only thing that's a problem. Most of the time it ends up just being something someone works on to get status and grants, and then they shelve it. Costly signaling to get tenure.https://t.co/GUvme9XBcU
Or maybe actually spend more time on hot air.I wanna know if manatee farts contain lots of methane. https://t.co/OUupbYSFkUIf not, would their gut bacteria treat Crohn's?When are we going to do large scale trials on cross-species transfaunation?https://t.co/eotoOr2F18
Today in weird microbiome ideas:Does sloths holding in poop act to allow them to float?Would this show in humans ala aquatic ape theory?Is marfan syndrome / crohn's an artifact of swim adaptation?https://t.co/cP7TrXcXbWManatees use farts to float.https://t.co/50PX16Zo0P
What's your carbon footprint?https://t.co/9RQ76BvdlZ
Whoa, I'm actually really close to hitting 2 metric tons of carbon.I knew I was frugal, but this makes me happy to hear!I'll be able to get a lot lower once I move to a place where I can control for food waste and bike for groceries.https://t.co/zfXBpcPelb https://t.co/yrbCOHUixS https://t.co/iiuQCuFirh
Gonna go ferment some garlic.https://t.co/5SCS5cpI4Q
It might even fix climate change associated cow farts, lmao."These results confirm the ability of [garlic oil], [diallyl sulfide], and [allyl mercaptan] to decrease methane production, which may help to improve the efficiency of energy use in the rumen." https://t.co/CabE4cquOr
I felt this.https://t.co/Y1ZSCfpeLC