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🦠 A newly discovered microbe might be able to help curb the climate crisis. 🌳 UTEX-3222, nicknamed “Chonkus,” is a novel strain of cyanobacteria that is especially adept at “eating” carbon dioxide and sinking in water. Just 13 liters of Chonkus could capture as much carbon dioxide annually as a single tree! 🤿 Chonkus, first discovered off the coast of Italy, is a prime candidate for biologically-based carbon sequestration projects and bioproduction of valuable commodities. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eC4h_3QE Max Schubert Braden Tierney Seed Health Università degli Studi di Palermo Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Weill Cornell Medicine Colorado State University University of Wisconsin-Madison Massachusetts Institute of Technology National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Great but what you want really say with this sentence: "Just 13 liters of Chonkus could capture as much carbon dioxide annually as a single tree!" Do you use volumetric productivity (biomass weigth/volume * time) of a bacterial culture for few days then extended to 1 year? Could you really compare it with the same biomass accumulated from a tree? Or you are just talking about maximum substrate conversion to biomass, then extended to 1 year?
Great to see another high-biomass accumulating cyano strain!
Chonkus!
... now imagine all these carbon storage granules converting into diamonds at the right pressure :)
Nice first step! There's a looooooong way to go, But nice first step.
Great discovery. Indeed micro-green life has potential to solve many human-created issues on this planet.
Cool! Let’s hybridize this as a codependent with the plastic eating microbes and unleash it in the ocean so it limits itself eventually #SpaceShipEarth #carboncapture #climatechange #oceanplastics
Impressive work. Congratulations 👏
This sounds great.
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1moFabulous. Lots of very interesting information contained within the article link but not a single point of data, anecdotes only. Please let’s see the data 👍🏻. Production gr/l/day. Unit volume, unit time.