From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 00:40:59 MDT
At 08:13 AM 8/21/02 -0700, Robert wrote:
>> If you have access to the sea you can do this even easier, by
>> bioaccretion.
>>
>> Sinply create a wire mesh form of what you want to make (chicken
>> wire works) attach an electrical source (windpower/solar works) and
>> immerse it in seawater, it will "grow" your form just as sealife
>> does.
>
>Yes Brian, but the problems with most materials constucted by
>oceanic life are the slow cell division time of eukaryotic
>cells (~24 hours) and the lack of nutrients (one depends
>on ocean currents).
I understood from Marshall T. Savage's THE MILLENNIAL PROJECT that this
method (`seacrete') is *not* `bioaccretion' but simple electrodeposition.
Cf.
http://www.stanford.edu/~erlee/seament/smp_refs.htm
I've been waiting with increasing skepticism for news of vast structures
built this way.
Damien Broderick
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