http://www.bioremediate.com/oilspill.htm microbes have been used to clean up crude oil spills for a few years now. This is an example of one of the companies that offer them for sale. There are many others
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Greg > > >If I am remembering my chemistry correctly, TNT stands for > >Trinitratrotoluene or toluene ( which is a benzene ring of 6 carbon > >atoms in a ring, and each carbon atom has a hydrogen atom to the > >outside, with a CH3 structure hanging on to the ring ) that has been > >treated with nitric acid, adding 3 NO2 structures to it. > > You can remember all that? > > >If this bug can neutralize TNT, then it should have no problem > >dealing with and neutralizing benzene pollution from gasoline leaks. > > > >If you are correct in that the bug may eat the nitrogen, this may be > >a interesting way to make fertilizer from explosives, a real swords > >to plowshares project. > > That's more or less how it happened in the first place. > Nitrogen-fixing hit the big-time in WW1, to make explosives for the > military. Then peace broke out, the market evaporated. The day was > saved via an unholy marriage of the work of chemists Fritz Haber and > Baron Justus von Liebig - turn the bomb factories to making > fertilizer. And so an awful lot of today's farmland is, well, dead. > As if a bomb hit it: > > "Global Agricultural Survey Shows Nearly Half of Farm Soil 'Seriously > Degraded'" -- Associated Press, May 22, 2000. Detailed satellite > photos of the Earth's land mass and other data are helping scientists > at the UN-affiliated International Food Policy Research Institute > determine the state of global agriculture. Their conclusion: nearly > 40% of farmland is seriously degraded. Soil erosion, loss of organic > matter, hardening of soil, chemical penetration, nutrient depletion, > excess salinity and other damage have left much of the world's > potential and previous agricultural land unusable. The research > covers only human-induced degradation. See Land Degradation In The > Developing World: Issues and Policy Options for 2020: > http://www.ifpri.org/2020/briefs/number44.htm > > The 1999 report on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's ongoing > 37-year project monitoring the effects of nitrogen fertilisers in the > US concluded that agriculture's continuing overapplication of > nitrogen fertilizers is causing irreparable damage to the soil. It > said US farms have "a 50% applied nitrogen efficiency rate" -- only > half the nitrogen applied to the soil is actually used by the crop. > The other half becomes harmful nitric acid. They said three decades > of such overuse of nitrogen has destroyed much of the soil's > fertility, causing it to age the equivalent of 5,000 years. -- > "Acidification From Fertilizer Use Linked To Soil Aging": > http://www.cals.wisc.edu/media/news/03_99/acid_soil.html > > On the other hand, if you make your compost pile well, you'll > probably end up with up to 25% more nitrogen than you started off > with, via the action of bugs that eat nitrogen, such as Azotobacter > sp. et al. Ain't nothing new. But I think they don't eat nukes. Or > TNT. But they won't nuke your farm either. > > Best > > Keith > > > > >Greg H. > > > > > --- Greg and April <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >wrote: > > >--------------------------------- > > >I wonder were the Nitrogen goes? > > > > Maybe they eat it? Dunno... I was wondering about the connection > > between TNT and many Energy Department waste sites. Peculiar form of > > energy, TNT. > > > > Regards > > > > Keith ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
