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| Topic Started: Aug 8 2010, 04:45 AM (425 Views) | |
| Daistallia | Aug 8 2010, 04:45 AM Post #1 |
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I got a idea for something for a conworld project, and maybe a way to make it work, but I'm unsure of the biochem, and so need a plausablility check. Would it be possible for a yeast/denitrifying bacteria culture to work in a similar manner to a sour dough yeast/lactobacillus culture, but instead of the bacteria producing lactic acid it would produce nitrogen gas and glutamic acid? What lead to the idea was a discussion of beer, Guiness to be specific. Draught Guiness gets part of it's texture because it's mixed with nitrogen gas. I wondered if it was possible to have naturally nitrogenated beer, and this seemed like the best way. (The glutimate was just a side thought.) So, what do you think? Plausable? |
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| Daistallia | Aug 10 2010, 09:04 PM Post #2 |
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Nobody?
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| The Dodo | Aug 10 2010, 09:21 PM Post #3 |
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Not really my specialty. Try this site http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/. They may be able to help you. |
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| Daistallia | Aug 10 2010, 11:52 PM Post #4 |
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Thank you, hopefully that gets me a useful answer. (I wasn't quite sure if this was the best place to ask this.) |
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| Holben | Aug 11 2010, 03:07 AM Post #5 |
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Sorry, been off. The nitrogen content of the beer isn't high enough for the culture to have a large enough foothold on nutrients in the area. If other, more 'standard' respirators are around, they'll mean that the culture goes extinct in a very short time. I think if the company involved could be bothered to both GE this and sterilise fully the surrounding area, it'd be okay. I think they'd best be GEngineered from cyanobacteria, actually. But i'm not the best person to ask. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Daistallia | Aug 12 2010, 03:05 AM Post #6 |
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No worries.
I was thinking it might start off with a high protein mash - either a high protein grain or a mash including lentils - to boost the available nitrogen.
So far it sound doable, thank you.
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