Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Fungus Power

How in the world are they going to remove all that oil from the Gulf of Mexico? Paul Stamets suggests mycoremediation: using mushrooms to consume the spill. He's made it work surprisingly well on land- I'm not sure how it would work at sea. But it's worth a shot along with every other idea they can think of, right?

2 comments:

Holly said...

That's an outstanding idea. Did you see the thing in the news last week about Craig Venter making a bacteria from lab chemicals? ie, not-life to life ? Interesting times.

Rufus said...

I read about it in the Economist. It's a really big deal isn't it? I think they compared it to splitting the atom.

One thing that's bugging me about the oil slick is that I was pretty sure they figured out after the Valdez spill that they can deal with oil spills by adding the ingredient that thickens up bubble gum and sucking it up- but nobody seems to be suggesting that now.