Re: [Vo]:Heavy Water Production using Fungus?

2020-10-27 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:41 PM JonesBeene wrote: > Well if there is a survival advantage to concentrating deuterium, for > single cell or complex organisms then by using well known techniques of > selection and gene modification, one would suspect that the efficiency > could increase

RE: [Vo]:Heavy Water Production using Fungus?

2020-10-27 Thread JonesBeene
Well if there is a survival advantage to concentrating deuterium, for single cell or complex organisms then by using well known techniques of selection and gene modification, one would suspect that the efficiency could increase exponentially over time. One could cover vast quantities of

Re: [Vo]:Heavy Water Production using Fungus?

2020-10-27 Thread Terry Blanton
There are also many papers dating as far back as 1933 on the biological separation of hydrogen isotopes...not necessarily mycelial, however On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 4:44 PM Terry Blanton wrote: > It certainly is feasible. Here is a 2016 paper showing the longevity of a > particular fungi is

Re: [Vo]:Heavy Water Production using Fungus?

2020-10-27 Thread Terry Blanton
It certainly is feasible. Here is a 2016 paper showing the longevity of a particular fungi is increased with the uptake of deuterium oxide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5515009/ On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 4:09 PM Terry Blanton wrote: > I'll bet even Paul Stamets has not a clue on

Re: [Vo]:Heavy Water Production using Fungus?

2020-10-27 Thread Terry Blanton
I'll bet even Paul Stamets has not a clue on that one. On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 3:20 PM Sean Logan wrote: > Hello Vortex-L, > >Has anyone heard of people using a fungus to produce heavy water from > sea water? Someone was telling me about "scientists in China or Japan" > who are working on