From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 01:13:16 MDT
It's 'old' research, but perhaps with new funding.......
(DOE had stopped funding it 5 or 6 years ago)
Amara
Deep Dwellers
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/3_29_97/bob1.htm
Science News
March 29, 1997
(drop down in the article)
Deep life could also hold practical significance by helping solve toxic
waste problems. The Swedish government, for instance, funds research on
microbes to assess how they will influence an underground repository for
nuclear waste. Pedersen's work suggests that the microbes alter
groundwater chemistry in ways that would inhibit corrosion of
containment canisters.
Subsurface microbes could also provide industry with novel routes for
cleaning wastewater, says Onstott. Many of these microbes consume
otherwise toxic chemicals and would thrive in industrial wastewaters,
which are often quite hot and have high concentrations of dissolved
salts.
Last year, DOE abruptly ended its research on subsurface microbes, even
as the pace of discoveries was picking up. Researchers in the United
States are now seeking support from other federal agencies to continue
their quest for subsurface life on the continents, under the seafloor,
and eventually on other planets.
Harvey Newstrom:
>This is what I was talking about on the Extropians List. Instead of
> ignoring environmental issues or pretending they aren't a big problem,
> we should be using technology to solve them.
>On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 09:17 pm, J. Hughes wrote:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=1&cid=585&u=/nm/2
> 0020723/sc_nm/science_genome_dc_1
>
> New Research to Find Environment-Cleansing Bugs
> Tue Jul 23, 4:24 PM ET
> By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
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