Sean Houtman wrote in message news:1096397186.3WUZQGoSSox59jJh7ILi3A@teranews. ..
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Sean Houtman wrote in message
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You could put some Cyanobacteria in your blood, but you do
need light for them to take care of the CO2.

Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic. Wouldn't chemosynthetic bacteria
be better for this application?

No, because the chemical energy they need has to come from
somewhere, and the chemicals that can be used by chemosynthetic
bacteria are generally immediatly toxic to humans. If you want them
to use sugars from your blood, well, the inefficiencies of
thermodynamics mean that they will end up creating more CO2 than
they use.

Sean

There are some bacteria that use CO2 and give out oxygen

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Sean Houtman wrote in message
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Sean Houtman wrote in message
news:1095655347.512RUex2R1ahcHuyJgpTGw@teranews. ..

You could put some Cyanobacteria in your blood, but you do
need light for them to take care of the CO2.

Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic. Wouldn't chemosynthetic
bacteria be better for this application?

No, because the chemical energy they need has to come from
somewhere, and the chemicals that can be used by chemosynthetic
bacteria are generally immediatly toxic to humans. If you want
them to use sugars from your blood, well, the inefficiencies of
thermodynamics mean that they will end up creating more CO2 than
they use.

Sean

There are some bacteria that use CO2 and give out oxygen


Yes. There are. Parts of this thread actually discuss that, they are
called Cyanobacteria, and they are photosynthetic.

Sean

Sean Houtman wrote in message news:1097638184.eLdCiXkY8VVSsCiH6cCP0g@teranews. ..

Yes. There are. Parts of this thread actually discuss that, they are
called Cyanobacteria, and they are photosynthetic.

Sean

Is it feasible to genetically-engineer bacteria to use acids, acidic
substances, sulphides, oxides [including smoke], ketones, skatole,
phosphides, sulfates, phopshates, halogens [atomic, ionic, isotopic],
carbon [ash, charcoal, etc.] lipids [including gasoline], chlorine
[atomic, ionic, and isotopic], alcohols [organic OH- compounds],
radioactive wastes, histamines, salts, and urea for energy?

(Curious) wrote in
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Sean Houtman wrote in message
news:1097638184.eLdCiXkY8VVSsCiH6cCP0g@teranews. ..

Yes. There are. Parts of this thread actually discuss that, they
are called Cyanobacteria, and they are photosynthetic.

Sean

Is it feasible to genetically-engineer bacteria to use acids,
acidic substances, sulphides, oxides [including smoke], ketones,
skatole, phosphides, sulfates, phopshates, halogens [atomic,
ionic, isotopic], carbon [ash, charcoal, etc.] lipids [including
gasoline], chlorine [atomic, ionic, and isotopic], alcohols
[organic OH- compounds], radioactive wastes, histamines, salts,
and urea for energy?


Bacteria already use many of those for their own energy uses. Oxides
already have most of the chemical energy removed, so they tend to be
low value. Bacteria have been used in remediating some wastes, for
instance toxic metals (including your radioactive wastes) can be
chemically processed by bacteria to be less available or mobile in
the environment.

Sean