Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Has anybody heard of this, seems like another ingenious use of bacteria!
http://www.ted.com/talks/magnus_larsson ... cture.html

Wow that is pretty neat. I can see it now. BYAP offering bacteria kits to 'grow' a tank and grow beds.....

They would have to be judicous where they placed this. Saw a piece on history channel's "How the Earth was Made" about the Sahara. It appears that in about 20,000 year cycles the Sahara goes from lake/river systems to desert and back again. The Mega lakes were hunderds of feet deep during the wet cycle.

That's an interesting site BRB thanks for the tip.
Here was a video that I found interesting and AP would be a simple example of doing this
Biomimicry in action

novaris,

From the same site you might find this interesting -- http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_ ... world.html

These are some RSG's!!!(really smart guys)
The only thing that was disheartening was the fact he was patenting living organisms.

Another one on synthetic life scary
http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_i ... _life.html

If you meant the fungi guy then yeah that bother me too, I was really interested till toward the end his commercial excitement was palpable, seems like some really good potential but rings of Mo_santo 2

The only issue I see is water and water.

You need water to feed the bacteria and keep them alive, water is also slightly acidic especially rain water. It would undo the binding properties of calcite.