Harry Veeder
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:27:21 -0700
How about algae chips? dried/baked algae with a bit of salt. ;-) Harry On 13/4/2008 5:02 AM, Michael Foster wrote: > All this talk of algae reminds me of a project I embarked upon when I was > about 14 years old. I had the rather ambitious idea that I could use algae to > feed an animal tissue culture. Essentially what I tried to do was grow algae > in a glass tube and using a bacterial or protozoan intermediary, feed the > muscle tissue culture. > > In other words, I attempted have sunlight feed the algae on one end, and for > filet mignon to be extruded out the other. I obtained a really nice Pyrex > glass tube about 4 inches in diameter and 6 feet long with ground flanges on > each end. I have no idea what these cost originally, but an industrial > surplus place had hundreds of these beauties for a quarter each. People used > to buy them and use them for target practice. > > I got some unidentified algae species from the duck pond in a local park and I > must say the algae thrived remarkably well in the glass tube. Well at least > that part worked. Nearly pure oxygen collects at the top of the tube. Must be > good for something. > > As you can imagine, the rest of my effort didn't work out so well. I had in > fact succeeded with a tissue growth medium, but nothing resembling meat was > the result. Undaunted, I tried various combinations of organisms inside the > algae tube with the tissue culture. In the end, practically everything I tried > in the tube succeeded in making a really smelly toxic brown mess of the algae. > My dreams of cheap steak were dashed. > > Not long after that, I learned that the glass tubing was surplussed out from > the old Vitro uranium processing plant. Those tubes were likely radioactive > as hell. Remember that no one was very concerned about such things in those > days. > > See: > http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/umtra/salt_lake_title1.html > http://tinyurl.com/3ffgjs > > It sort of makes me wonder if algae might grow a little better in a > radioactive environment. You know, some like it hot. > > M. > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >