"* In 2002, a Dutch company responded to Ms Whiffin's website and shipped sand samples from Holland for testing.
* They were impressed by the capability of the bacteria to cement sand samples from Dutch dykes that protect the land from rising sea levels.
* a similar technique is being used to clean up strontium spills in the United States at the moment."
Well sure...but what about transparent aluminum?
I heard France grinds up spent nuclear fuel rods for road surface...is this true?
This is the upside. Everything has a downside. Me thinks they’re leaving that out. No place do I see the word “Practical”.
Look at this! They are laying the mix down with a “Pisten Bully”! http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/TM8G9LTQXpI/AAAAAAAAJeo/0Vnjei4g4pA/s1600/paving02.jpg
Unfortunately, the roads are only one bacteria wide.
At one point Kudzu was hailed as the ultimate ground cover and shipped over from Japan.
Some things sound good in theory...
At one point Kudzu was hailed as the ultimate ground cover and shipped over from Japan.
Some things sound good in theory...
At one point Kudzu was hailed as the ultimate ground cover and shipped over from Japan.
Some things sound good in theory...
Hoepfully, nobody will think it would be a funny prank to get a barrel of these microbes and drop them at a nearby beach.
Hmmm, sounds like one of those things that just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should.
But the bad new is that tires wear out every 5000 miles.
The animal rights activists will scream and wail about the unfairness to the poor little bacilli. Mixing them with sand, then squishing them with truck wheels- really!
That’s really cool, but my understanding is that asphalt is pretty much a useless byproduct of oil refinement, no?
( I mean useless for fuel, of course.)
bflr
bflr
My first question: Is this cheaper than asphalt roads? Here in Sonoma County, we’ve just been informed that the County supervisors are going to let most of our country roads go to wrack and ruin because we can’t afford to maintain them. Seriously, they’re going to let the present asphalt roads “degrade” to cobblestone-sized pieces (which will take about ten years, and guess how much FUN it’s going to be driving on these POS roads during that time?), and then they’re going to pulverize the pieces and turn them back into gravel-type roads. Progress, my @ss. Maybe we’ll have sandstone roads in place before this “plan” of their can come to pass. One can hope.