NPR Sci. Friday - Fungi that thrive on radioactive waste
Today's NPR SF is blowing my mind -- they have discovered fungi growing (thriving) in Chernoble; they believe that melanin in the fungi allows it to utilize radioactivity much like chlorophyll in plants converts sunlight into energy. Too cool. Biofuels from nuclear waste anyone? :o) ____________________________________________________________________________________Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469
In college I got the idea of one day bio-engineering a fungus that produced heat as well as bioluminescent light, for home use. Some futurist, eh? * ;o) * On 5/25/07, Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
Today's NPR SF is blowing my mind -- they have discovered fungi growing (thriving) in Chernoble; they believe that melanin in the fungi allows it to utilize radioactivity much like chlorophyll in plants converts sunlight into energy. Too cool. Biofuels from nuclear waste anyone?
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