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What do you anticipate will happen if we make cyanobacteria "immune to their natural predator", leading to their unchecked proliferation...?
by jfk13 6y ago
What do you anticipate will happen if we make cyanobacteria "immune to their natural predator", leading to their unchecked proliferation...?
- codecamper 6y agoHilarious that nobody upvoted my post. I've been looking into the CO2 problem for more than 10 years & this seems like one of the most promising ideas... because it sounds possible to pull off. Yes, I have the same question for Dr. Church. How does he plan to control their population? Maybe something like this: https://news.mit.edu/2015/kill-switches-shut-down-engineered-bacteria-1211 https://news.mit.edu/2015/kill-switches-shut-down-engineered...
- blaufast 6y agoYSK those 'kill switches' just have to be abandoned by their host to stop working. They create a huge evolutionary pressure for this.
- codecamper 6y agoAre there examples of this happening?
- ars 6y agoSomething else will eat them. Even a human could. Doesn't matter what eats them, after digestion, the CO2 is back in the atmosphere. If you actually want to do this, you can't just leave them in the wild, you have to breed them in massive quantity and bury them. Same as growing a tree and burying it.
- codecamper 6y agoGeorge Church figured they'd just collect and then sink. not much life down there and once it is deep enough, it might be deep enough to perma-sequester.