Re:America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
by pjc50 on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:55AM
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But this never happens?
Re:America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
by roenxi on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:35AM
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I didn't come up with the idea, I saw it in action in a mining context.
Besides, how you can be sure it does or doesn't happen? The world is large and complicated; and basic research gets nearly no press and is very hard to statistically quantify. Where would you look for proof in the positive or negative?
Re:America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
by eythian on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:04AM
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Fonterra, New Zealand's largest company runs along these lines. It's a dairy company, so basically gets milk from dairy farmers and puts it on the market. It is a co-op owned by those farmers.
That is the easy part. There is a good model for shared infrastructure - a private corporation is established, all the local companies buy a share then the shared company builds, owns and operates the actual infrastructure. The same thing works for funding long-term research in everyone's best interest. A shared research corporation that all the local businesses can buy into. They can be guilted in to a small contribution and the research can happen at a slow-burn to generate results over time.
To me the bigger challenge is who would pay for dumping large numbers of irradiated bugs.