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It's interesting to run this model in reverse. Can we enhance food by impacting the soil health in a way that leads to more bioavailability of an essential mineral? https://t.co/QFrTD4VXoG
Was looking up atropine (constituent of belladonna) and how you can accidentally poison yourself by eating rabbits who ate the plant. Amazing number of house plants are poisonous to rabbits too.https://t.co/38W3wuIwnqSo what if we use this fact in a positive light?
Can we maybe figure out a way to have plants uptake cobalt and turn it into B12 ("cobalamin")?"This comprehensive review might serve to guide technique selection and inspire more scientific exploration on the remediation of cobalt-contaminated soil." https://t.co/gTbIIyCiZS
There may be some way of doing this thru a chain of interconnected foods webs. What happens if you feed heavy metal contaminated "Rollie Pollies" to chickens? Does the meat become laced with heavy metal, or can it make them healthier if in right amounts?https://t.co/DRjUEIHpUi
Gut bacteria?"When they take in heavy metals like lead and cadmium, they crystallize these ions in their guts. [...] With this special cleanup capability, pill bugs survive in the most contaminated sites where most creatures can’t."https://t.co/zH3gAvQWVe
"There is no consensus on the definition of a heavy metal. It is either a metal of high density or a toxic, relatively dense metal." https://t.co/jkWc6T8FvaDoes the dose & form make the poison?https://t.co/lwMRkzbGPL
Just pulling the cobalt or other toxic metal out of the soil isn't going to do much good if we're just moving it around. So something else has to be added to make these kinds of things viable.https://t.co/xnaOYoIdHf
"While this may seem like a great way to clean up contaminated land, the heavy metals do not actually leave the area. Instead they are just concentrated in the pill and sow bugs. Once the bugs die, those toxins would likely go back into the soil." https://t.co/5Xmwsfc23F
Something that stood out to me in researching biodomes is that the ones that appear to be viable are all using water.And I also realized Clams are a great source of B12.Can we maybe feed rabbit/chicken poop thru an aquatic digester?https://t.co/ictWB40PvG
Using aquatic/ocean based systems to filter and clean detritus may be absolutely essential to long term sustainability.https://t.co/AcAjuWgVtw
I feel like we may be thinking too locally when considering waste streams and regenerative ag. We think about the systems on the farm land, but we really gotta be considering the larger space we occupy.https://t.co/2BMBlJpI5s
@s_curves @vgr Might be able to 'clean' the water from dishes with a series of biodigestors designed to promote specific species.https://t.co/ClUoliAKQ3This was an idea I had in 2004, and a version of the concept is used in fish based aquaponics. Trick might be scaling it down.
"hints on transporters and enzymes possibly involved in such sequestration/transformation processes, opening the route to metabolic engineering in the perspective application of this cyanobacterium as a new phyco-remediation tool, based on [synbio]" https://t.co/CdBOgFBo2X
We can not legislate away problems by having politicians come to an agreement on some accord somewhere and cross our fingers that people act on the incentives pressed upon them from on high.https://t.co/oPUYVpRT6u
A fool and his master are soon bitten by a snake. As the parable of the tortoise and the scorpion...it is in their nature.https://t.co/lODvv4Mlw5
No.It is in their incentives. https://t.co/abSTC7V6hv
Tired: touch grass.Wired: eat dirt.https://t.co/Ty2zKtHUor