Hi all,
I should have given more details about the processing. You have to grow the fungus separately and limit one of the nutrients. It produces good quantities of the peroxidase but it probably is not for those without a lab. I never got to the point of separating the peroxidase as I was only interesting in enhancing the composting environment. It can be separated by gel electrophoresis, for certain, and may be a large enough molecule to separate by centrifugation. The electrophorsis would produce a really high purity product. It would make for a real nice business for sustainable development. It an interesting thought but I have other pots on the fire right now. Any of you university types looking for a research project out there? I already have too many things in the scale up phase.
Tom Irwin
From: Brian Rodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:30:23 -0300
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms
Hello Fred
thanks for the input, even if it does pop another bubble, dammit.
Mushrooms like the same sugars that yeasts like. So a lot of what you are trying to get from the wood is what the fungi consumes. I have cultured both yeasts and fungi and had to have completely seperate laminar stations because there was cross contamination going out of control.From what I have heard about most brewing systems it seems like I better build a super clean laboratory to do my experiments in. I have an insulated semi-trailer that my buddy was using to grow edible mushrooms in. I was thinking I might strip it back to the cleanable fiberglass walls and washable steel floor and try my hand at brewing something easier like corn or fruit just to get some experience with all this scientific stuff. Right now the trailer houses my electronic workshop and a small jewelry workbench. Whatever I do, it seems plain to me that change is in the air.
Now that you bring up this point about yeasts and fungi eating sugar the same stuff needed to ferment, it occurs to me that these fungi folks were unaware that I was trying to ferment the sawdust. Their original plan as I recall was to help my friend who owns a small sawmill to dispose of sawdust. Oh well at this point it is still in the thinking about it stage. I will gladly leave some of this learning the hard way stuff for next season, or as they say around here “Mañana”If you can find the fungi and make it work, I would be happy to see the results. fred
I will apprise you all of the mushroom experiment as it develops.
Brian Rodgers
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