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[Woodbutcher]

Good man, that! Have you checked the Alberta tar sands yet? Any way of extracting the oil without polluting the whole plains water table?

[ScholasticSpastic]

Good man, that! Have you checked the Alberta tar sands yet? Any way of extracting the oil without polluting the whole plains water table?

I'm not working on pollution-free extraction- I'm more about quantitative analysis and biodegradation of waste than preventing it. I'll leave waste prevention to industrial chemists and stick with remediation as it's probably the fastest-growing research area I could come up with.

I like waste. It's very natural. It's also very natural to figure out what to do with waste, resulting in more diverse (and, more importantly, more interesting) systems.

I'm on step one of my two-step plan:
1) figure out what's there.
2) find out what eats it.

We don't know what's in that waste. There are some clowns in a research group who've made a lot of claims about what's in the waste, but they can't back any of them up. We already know what eats it: common soil bacteria. What we don't know is what it's composed of and which of the components are actually toxic. I already have some petri dishes filled with stuff for part (2)- Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas putida, and I'm working on an experimental model which might shed some light on the claims made by the Canadians re. whether they're up in the night.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Good man, that! Have you checked the Alberta tar sands yet? Any way of extracting the oil without polluting the whole plains water table?

I'm not working on pollution-free extraction- I'm more about quantitative analysis and biodegradation of waste than preventing it. I'll leave waste prevention to industrial chemists and stick with remediation as it's probably the fastest-growing research area I could come up with.

I like waste. It's very natural. It's also very natural to figure out what to do with waste, resulting in more diverse (and, more importantly, more interesting) systems.

I'm on step one of my two-step plan:
1) figure out what's there.
2) find out what eats it.

We don't know what's in that waste. There are some clowns in a research group who've made a lot of claims about what's in the waste, but they can't back any of them up. We already know what eats it: common soil bacteria. What we don't know is what it's composed of and which of the components are actually toxic. I already have some petri dishes filled with stuff for part (2)- Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas putida, and I'm working on an experimental model which might shed some light on the claims made by the Canadians re. whether they're up in the night.

Movie idea: The Fart That Ate Salt Lake City. Money to be made, my friend, serious money.

[ScholasticSpastic]

Movie idea: The Fart That Ate Salt Lake City. Money to be made, my friend, serious money.

Have you seen "Attack of the Giant Brine Shrimp"? That was cool. It scaled the Salt Lake Temple and plucked off the gold-plated Moroni statue. Class!!