[geo] Anammox bacteria

2009-08-04 Thread Piotr_G
Hi everyone! I'm a student of Silesian University of Since in Gliwice in Poland. From two years I'm interesting in the research of anammox bacteria, that mean bacteria which could convert N-NH4 to N-N2. The anammox process is autotrophic. I’m working hardly in laboratory and I try to learn more ab

[geo] Re: Is this what an energy revolution looks like?

2009-08-04 Thread Ning Zeng
I am among those who received such a rejection letter from ARPA-E for a proposal on carbon sequestration. In defense of such a high rejection rate, the $150M divided by average grant size of $2M leaves you 75 projects (divided by 3500 that gives you about 2%). So being 'discouraged' for an 8-page

[geo] Re: No Wonder They Can't Find Any Aliens

2009-08-04 Thread Alvia Gaskill
Modeling on this has been done by LBNL and others. You are correct in that the heat island creates an environment for rising air. Unfortunately, this sometimes results in thunderstorms that are essentially manufactured weather (see, it can be done) that produce flooding rains that are of littl

[geo] Re: Anammox bacteria

2009-08-04 Thread Stuart Strand
Anammox uses the ammonia oxidizing bacteria, so N2O emissions are significant; e.g., a couple percent of the total N load according to Dynamics of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide emission during full-scale reject water treatment by: Marlies J. Kampschreur, Wouter R. L. van der Star, Hubert A. Wi

[geo] Re: The Storm

2009-08-04 Thread Alvia Gaskill
And now the unfortunate conclusion of The Storm. As snow falls in Las Vegas, Luke and the Geek (character name Dr. Kirk, so I'll call him that from now on) try to reverse the effect of the weather modification weapon using computer models. Kirk wonders if the military will want them to stop it