![]() So, let us introduce Windfall Bio, just now emerging from many moons of stealth. Our methanotroph friends may be able to render good service, once again - two problems, solved in one. Climatologists warn about fugitive methane, environmentalists decry the over-use of nitrogen fertilizers. ![]() Sounds like the volcanic era right after the cooling of the earth, right? They like lots of methane, not too much oxygen, little bit of heat, little bit of copper. But they are found everywhere - soil, water, land. Hot springs and mud volcanoes host these friends, these extremophiles, these methane-eaters. methane, scourge of climate lovers, the “dry gas” disdained by ethane and propane lovers, citizen of the Land of Misfit Molecules, yet it is the Food of Life, or rather perhaps the food that gave rise to life, when the archaea first appeared some 3.5 billion years ago. Our tale today will take us to the avant-garde of biology, and methane is at the heart of it. ![]()
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