[Gasification] conversion of CO2 into methane (Off Topic)

[Dan Dimiduk]

I'm actually stopping and reading this. Dan Dimiduk. 

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Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear List,
>I initiated this topic and I too would like the discussion to be kept
>on list. There may be some who see a business opportunity or potential
>for patenting in this topic, and therefore want to keep it off list,
>but the question posed by me was of fundamental nature, and therefore
>the discussion should remain on list.
>Yours
>A.D.Karve
>
>On 4/19/16, bayent <bayent at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Certainly interesting to this humble wood aholic:)
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Bell Samsung device over Canada's largest network.
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Greg Manning <a31ford at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2016-04-18  7:57 PM  (GMT-04:00)
>> To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
>> <gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Gasification] conversion of CO2 into methane (Off Topic)
>>
>> Doug... I for one, find it very interesting if you kept this conversation ON
>> LIST even though it is, as you said. Off topic. I do indeed find it of
>> interest.
>> Does anyone else find it interesting ???
>> Greg Manning
>> On Feb 2, 2016 8:36 PM, "Doug Williams" <doug.williams.nz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Dr Karve,
>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure you are directing your question to the right forum, but as it's CO2
>> and methane, guess it qualifies, but never thought my own interest in this
>> humble cell form would be useful to anyone(:-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Archaea having been around for 3-4 billion years are the ultimate colonist
>> of any environment, survival being that they arrive at their destination
>> from where ever they come from. Even if there was not the chemistry present
>> to feed directly, they can also take in energy from Sunlight and convert
>> this to feed. Mutation is rapid, given the environmental chemistry would
>> also changing around them over a few million years or so. Time doesn't seem
>> to matter and they keep multiplying to suit their environment. They can now
>> be found in just about every thing on this planet,so I'm sure carbonic acid
>> was considered ideal nutrient.
>>
>>
>>
>> Given that your interest is of their participation in digestive processes
>> and the evolution of methane, one can only guess that the building blocks
>> allowing their evolution branching into bacteria one way, and eucaryota the
>> other, they had plenty of places to turn host nutrient into methane. My own
>> interest is their function within the human gut, evidenced by their methane
>> production and distinctive smell, and how they might be involved with the
>> matrix of peptides on which warm blooded cells of life forms build.
>>
>>
>>
>> It may be better to discuss this privately rather than be off topic.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Doug Williams,
>>
>> Fluidyne.
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:23:11 +0530
>>
>> Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> When the archaea arrived on the earth, the earth's atmosphere had mainly
>>
>>> nitrogen and carbon dioxide.  How did they survivet? I have been thinking
>>
>>> on it.  CO2 forms H2CO3 when it combines with water.  Did they use this
>>
>>> carbonic acid as food? (2H2CO3=CH4 + CO2)
>>
>>> Yours
>>
>>> A.D.Karve
>>
>>> ***
>>
>>> Dr. A.D. Karve
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Chairman, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd (www.samuchit.com)
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Doug Williams <Doug.Williams.nz at gmail.com>
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