Things have been frantic the last few weeks at Rabett Labs, and Eli is a bit frazzled. Don't look for anything until Monday. A happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US.
Hey, I didn't mean to suggest _you_ were a stuffed rabbit (grin).
Here's an oddball thought for the holidays. Any chance we're injecting methane-eating bacteria into underground petroleum reserves by drilling wells? It'd be unfortunate if the petroleum industry started getting CO2 instead of natural gas out of the ground, after a few microbes got into the strata. Just a thought.
I noticed this in a ScienceExpress newsbit today:
"It is the hardiest “methanotrophic” bacterium yet discovered, which makes it a likely candidate for use in reducing methane gas emissions from landfills, mines, industrial wastes, geothermal power plants and other sources.
“This is a really tough methane-consuming organism that lives in a much more acidic environment than any we’ve seen before,” said Dunfield, who is the lead author of the paper. “It belongs to a rather mysterious family of bacteria (called Verrucomicrobia) ....”
Methanotrophic bacteria consume methane as their only source of energy and convert it to carbon dioxide during their digestive process..... --- end excerpt---
Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves. Prof. Rabett is thankful that they occasionally heed his pointing out the implications of the various enthusiasms that rattle around the department and school. Ms. Rabett is thankful that Prof. Rabett occasionally heeds her pointing out that he is nuts.
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Have a good break. Hope the rest does you good.
Toughen up you whimpy socialist thickshit.
Hope you enjoyed your turkey and festivities!
Where should we send your holiday gift?
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Hey, I didn't mean to suggest _you_ were a stuffed rabbit (grin).
Here's an oddball thought for the holidays. Any chance we're injecting methane-eating bacteria into underground petroleum reserves by drilling wells? It'd be unfortunate if the petroleum industry started getting CO2 instead of natural gas out of the ground, after a few microbes got into the strata. Just a thought.
I noticed this in a ScienceExpress newsbit today:
"It is the hardiest “methanotrophic” bacterium yet discovered, which makes it a likely candidate for use in reducing methane gas emissions from landfills, mines, industrial wastes, geothermal power plants and other sources.
“This is a really tough methane-consuming organism that lives in a much more acidic environment than any we’ve seen before,” said Dunfield, who is the lead author of the paper. “It belongs to a rather mysterious family of bacteria (called Verrucomicrobia) ....”
Methanotrophic bacteria consume methane as their only source of energy and convert it to carbon dioxide during their digestive process.....
--- end excerpt---
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