So my advisor emailed me back- with some dissapointing news. I had hoped that
he would say that methanogens are vital because of the elimination of carbon
dioxide from the ecosystem, but he didn't. It turns out there's this whole
'global carbon dioxide cycle' that methanogens play a huge part in. The
methanogens decompose plant matter and throw some methane out. Anaerobic
bacteria at the topsoil -yes apparently there are other microorgansims
(vulnerable to nanosilver) in the topsoil and the methanogens are actually below
the topsoil- convert the methane ito carbon dioxide. The vegetation convert the
carbon dioxide to oxygen. But some of them methanogens' methane pass into the
atmosphere- enough to be a BIG global warming player. So i feel really pissed
:/. Oh yea and he said if I took out the methanoges all human life and other
life forms would cease to exist and isn't that just great! :(. I'm learning a
lot, though, about universal ecology, but I want my idea to be somewhat
productive.
So here are my small adaptation possibilities: place the pipet a little bit
further into the ground in areas where there is no oxygen and pump in
nano-silver. It should probably manage to get the methanogens. Than, assuming
the methanogens are exterminated, we could cross our fingers and hope for the
best! I'm not a big fan of that idea so here is a better one- elinate a small
portion of methanogens to equalize the ecosystem. The problem is in that some of
the methane passes the aerobic microorgaisms. If we kill just enough methanogens
in an ecosystem to equalize the ratio of methane to aerobic microorganisms, then
there won't be anymore escaping methane (theoretically at least). After all the
goal of this is to help the ecology not hurt it! This led me to my next
question, do silver ions get taken up after killing a cell? I can't get a direct
answer from anywhere but this diagram led me to beleive that,yes, nano-silver
gets used up when killing a cell. This is good news, because the amount of the
silver pumped in can be measured to kill the right amount of methaogens to
equalize the ratios.
I have a few more far more radical changes that I'm thinking about. They are
1. converting excess methane to carbon dioxide then to oxygen and 2. using
existing nanotechnology which harness methane as a biofuel on the wetlands,
something that has never been done before. I haven't done any research on this
but when I do I'll add another post.
he would say that methanogens are vital because of the elimination of carbon
dioxide from the ecosystem, but he didn't. It turns out there's this whole
'global carbon dioxide cycle' that methanogens play a huge part in. The
methanogens decompose plant matter and throw some methane out. Anaerobic
bacteria at the topsoil -yes apparently there are other microorgansims
(vulnerable to nanosilver) in the topsoil and the methanogens are actually below
the topsoil- convert the methane ito carbon dioxide. The vegetation convert the
carbon dioxide to oxygen. But some of them methanogens' methane pass into the
atmosphere- enough to be a BIG global warming player. So i feel really pissed
:/. Oh yea and he said if I took out the methanoges all human life and other
life forms would cease to exist and isn't that just great! :(. I'm learning a
lot, though, about universal ecology, but I want my idea to be somewhat
productive.
So here are my small adaptation possibilities: place the pipet a little bit
further into the ground in areas where there is no oxygen and pump in
nano-silver. It should probably manage to get the methanogens. Than, assuming
the methanogens are exterminated, we could cross our fingers and hope for the
best! I'm not a big fan of that idea so here is a better one- elinate a small
portion of methanogens to equalize the ecosystem. The problem is in that some of
the methane passes the aerobic microorgaisms. If we kill just enough methanogens
in an ecosystem to equalize the ratio of methane to aerobic microorganisms, then
there won't be anymore escaping methane (theoretically at least). After all the
goal of this is to help the ecology not hurt it! This led me to my next
question, do silver ions get taken up after killing a cell? I can't get a direct
answer from anywhere but this diagram led me to beleive that,yes, nano-silver
gets used up when killing a cell. This is good news, because the amount of the
silver pumped in can be measured to kill the right amount of methaogens to
equalize the ratios.
I have a few more far more radical changes that I'm thinking about. They are
1. converting excess methane to carbon dioxide then to oxygen and 2. using
existing nanotechnology which harness methane as a biofuel on the wetlands,
something that has never been done before. I haven't done any research on this
but when I do I'll add another post.
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