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Is DIY Algae Farming the Future?

Posted by timothy on from the for-fun-and-food-and-friendship dept.

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."

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  1. Does mold count? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. Holy cunnilingus, Batman! by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 . . .

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  3. Re:Look further by hex0D · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

  4. Accidental agriculture... by Lord_of_the_nerf · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Re:Is progress that makes life worse really progre by Shark · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  6. Re:Urine? by macraig · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  7. Sigh by Voyager529 · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'd be like the Linux of algae

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