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New paper points to soil pore structure as key to carbon storage
- ph0rque 7y ago"Of the five cropping systems, only the two with high plant diversity resulted in higher levels of soil carbon."
- Gibbon1 7y ago"What we have found is that in order to be protected, the carbon has to move; it cannot be protected in the same place where it enters." This is interesting. When I've read about how mineral ore bodies are formed, there is a source, a transport, and a trap. Need all three to form an ore body. The above would say that carbon sequestering by plants follows the same basic process.
- ph0rque 7y agoFascinating! I wonder if anyone has looked into a way to create an artificial transport and trap mechanism for mineral ores... would be really convenient just to have a specific mineral accumulate. Also, here's an article about using mushrooms to recover up to 80% gold from e-waste: https://explorebiotech.com/researchers-turn-e-waste-gold-using-mushroom/ https://explorebiotech.com/researchers-turn-e-waste-gold-usi... I guess that might be related.
- Gibbon1 7y agoSomewhat unrelated I saw a paper talking about using bacteria to partially reduce iron oxide. And also people have been attempting bio-remediation of uranium/plutonium and other metal contaminated soils.