Is DIY Algae Farming the Future?

hex0D points to this "interview with Aaron Baum explaining why people growing algae at home for food can help the environment and their health, and what he's doing to facilitate this. 'We'd like to create an international network of people growing all kinds of algae in their homes in a small community scale, sharing information, doing it all in an open source way. We'd be like the Linux of algae – do-it-yourself with low-cost materials and shared information.' And one of the low-cost materials is your household urine."

Comments

Does mold count?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm skilled at cultivating mold on the floor, shower curtain, and walls of my shower. Perhaps these moldy efforts can help the environment and health.

Re:Does mold count?

[macraig]

Add algae to that and you'll have a space-hardy lifeform that you can fry up like potato chips but waaay healthier. Crispy!

Re:Does mold count?

[BlackHawk-666]

But I only planted non-Monsanto mould, that other stuff must have blown across the fence from my neighboors curtain!

Holy cunnilingus, Batman!

[PolygamousRanchKid]

We'd be like the Linux of algae – do-it-yourself with low-cost materials and shared information.' And one of the low-cost materials is your household urine.

So, like I start going down on the bitch, and complain that she tastes like algae and household urine. And then she quips, "But it runs Linux!"

Can't argue with that . . .

Re:Look further

[hex0D]

When I was a teenager my girlfriends mother commented on my long dyed green hair (which was much less common 20 years ago - now I dye my lawn green; so stay off it!) I tried to convince her that it was green on account of my culturing a symbiotic edible algae in it for convenient snacking, which I don't think helped my cause at all.

And yes, I was under the influence of something else that was green when I thought that'd be a good idea.

Accidental agriculture...

[Lord_of_the_nerf]

Yay! The pool I don't clean is the FUTURE!

Hoo boy

[DurendalMac]

We'd be like the Linux of algae

So they're going to grow algae in their neckbeards?

Re:self defeating business plan

[CarpetShark]

How could they think this was a good way to promote a new food source?

It's better than the truth: soylent green is people.

Re:Is progress that makes life worse really progre

[Shark]

We could use extreme environmentalists as fuel. Since most of them are also vegetarian, they'd even be carbon-neutral!

Re:Urine?

[macraig]

You'll have some very happy depression-free and horny little soil microbes, then? That's a good thing, right?

Re:Urine?

[FatdogHaiku]

Sterile, sure, but with all the prescriptions we are on here in the developed world... not necessarily free from extras.

Well the good news is that if they're on Viagra the urine ends up on the wall instead of in the bowl...

Re:Looks like people are starting to see the benef

[Anonymous Coward]

That must be one heck of a balcony.

Or some seriously dank "zucchini"...

Sigh

[Voyager529]

We'd be like the Linux of algae

I'll be right here waiting for the year of Algae on the Rooftop.

Re:Urine?

[ArsonSmith]

Yea, i usually just crap hard rock. Maybe that's why my parents thought my music in the 80s sounded like shit?

Re:Looks like people are starting to see the benef

[ozmanjusri]

Meh.

You let them run your country...

Re:self defeating business plan

[sjames]

Grow two tanks. One fed urine and one fed composted urine fed algae. Extend as many degrees as needed to lose the ick factor.

Re:Is progress that makes life worse really progre

[M8e]

So you are saying that coke soon will contain HFAS* instead of HFCS? *High fructose algae sugar

Re:Skeeters control?

[fyngyrz]

They're also great at eliminating your frog shit shortfall at the same time they boost your frog urine reserves. Bloody useful creatures, frogs.

Re:Urine?

[GrumblyStuff]

It's got what microbes crave!