• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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    8 months ago

    Glass panel over it for greenhouse?

    Can’t use more power than carbon skimming.

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      8 months ago

      I actually helped research this as an undergrad. The problem we’d always face is there are certain microorganisms, like rotifers, that can just decimate a tank of algae. Many rotifer species are parthenogenic, so it literally only takes one rotifer to knock out an entire algae tank.

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        8 months ago

        What if we genetically modified the algae to be impossible to kill and survive in extreme conditions. Like the algae equivalent of kudzu.

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          8 months ago

          Now coming to everyone soon: algae world! All algae all the time! Covered in slime? That’s worth a dime! There is no escaping it, not even a bit.

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            8 months ago

            It’ll be fine.

            If it gets out of hand we’ll just engineer an equally hardy and aggressive rotifer to kill all the algae.