Every once and a while I have a moment where something that I kind of understand intellecutally becomes much more ‘real’ and ‘true’ to me- and usually much more astonishing. This happened to me while I was reading the article about raising algae in a tank. I found myself thinking about how that would work, and what I would have to feed the algae. Then I realized that I would not have to feed the algae anything. That’s because the algae takes things that are totally not alive- sunlight and minerals- and turns them into something that is totally alive- itself. Wow. That’s pretty mind boggling.
Algae has a bit of a bad wrap, due to all those algae blooms, but its
reputation is starting to improve quite a bit, because it’s becoming seen
as a source
of biodiesel. So that could be promising. Here’s a bit of
information on types of algae commonly found in aquariums.
posted at 13:30 on Mon, 04 Dec, 2006 |
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