Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-30 Thread leaking pen
de. diatamacous (SP?) earth. those filters, much much better. On 11/30/06, Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/29/06, leaking pen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > then, > brush the dead algae every couple of hours, vaccuum, and backwash. > easy peasey lemon squeezy. Well, my experienc

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-30 Thread Frederick Sparber
Just run the algae-water through gear wringers the squeezed out oil and "husks" will float to the top where you can skim it off. In the 70s there was a food-grade algae(high protein dietary supplement for export to Asia) setup nearby at the NM Ag experiment farm, that used centrifugal separation-

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-30 Thread Terry Blanton
On 11/29/06, leaking pen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: then, brush the dead algae every couple of hours, vaccuum, and backwash. easy peasey lemon squeezy. Well, my experience has been that a sand filter will not catch the small particulates of the algae unless you let it precipitate and waste whi

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-29 Thread leaking pen
half a gallon of the 60 percent blue bottle of green yellow black algaecide with clarifier, enough of acid or base to bring to normative, and enough chlorine shock to bring your ppm up to 4. then, brush the dead algae every couple of hours, vaccuum, and backwash. easy peasey lemon squeezy. (deal

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-29 Thread Terry Blanton
On 11/29/06, leaking pen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, i like my pool. but then, in arizona, its a little more of a neccessitya nd less a luxury Yes, er, well, I live downwind from several coal fired gen plants. I don't have a problem until late July or August. At that time, the acid rain

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-29 Thread leaking pen
well, i like my pool. but then, in arizona, its a little more of a neccessitya nd less a luxury On 11/29/06, Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/28/06, leaking pen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i take it youve never heard of watermellon snow? > > http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plaug98.

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: This particular algae also causes a pink slime in swimming pools. With which I will no longer have to deal since I have divested myself of the house with the IG pool. I had always thought I wanted one until I had one. Take my advice, go to the Y. That reminds me of my f

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-29 Thread Terry Blanton
On 11/28/06, leaking pen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i take it youve never heard of watermellon snow? http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plaug98.htm This particular algae also causes a pink slime in swimming pools. With which I will no longer have to deal since I have divested myself of the house wi

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-28 Thread leaking pen
well, i first heard about the stuff in my dec 1987 volume of national geographics for kids, but hey On 11/28/06, Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "leaking pen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >i take it youve never heard of watermellon snow? > http://waynesword.p

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-28 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "leaking pen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> i take it youve never heard of watermellon snow? http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plaug98.htm Ha! Garth told me that the closest Mike Myers ever got to science was learning not to eat the yellow variety ...

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-28 Thread leaking pen
i take it youve never heard of watermellon snow? http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plaug98.htm On 11/28/06, Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "leaking pen" > why WOULDNT have early aneaorbic life had oxygen as a waste > product? pretty simple really -- they

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-28 Thread leaking pen
ohh, and also, at such low temps, with a low atmosphere pressure, two of the main items released from volcanoes, hs gas and solid so, small amounts of hs gas would melt snow and become aqueous. HS (aq) and so tends to seperate out the so, which releases oxygen. On 11/28/06, Jones Beene <[EMAIL

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-28 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "leaking pen" why WOULDNT have early aneaorbic life had oxygen as a waste product? pretty simple really -- they cannot live on the surface of ice. The ice surface, then as now, is inhospitable to chlorophyl based plants or algae and the ice was so thick th

Re: [Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-28 Thread leaking pen
first off, i first heard the theory that earth spent time as an iceball after the molten slagball before the dirt ball stage AGES ago. its an accepted geologic theory that said icing over is what broke down early rock into the first sand and dirt to provide a base for life as the ice melted. also

[Vo]: BioMimicry, the old way

2006-11-28 Thread Jones Beene
Subject: Biomimicry, the old way... Older than the hills, awkshally ... as in billion-year old. We may owe the present green Earth and abundant fresh air to an ancient global "deep-freeze" ... for which [previously unlikely] scenario, "snowball earth", there is now accumulating evidence - i.e