News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Fermentation and Daily Life (2018) by carapace on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:45PM (#31876709)
I've come to believe that multicellular life is an art form. What we see as individual organisms in relationship are really extensions or dreams of the unitary cellular mind. We are Solaris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)

- - - -

A fascinating article but there doesn't seem to be any mention of alcohol?

Fermentation is a easy way to create your own fuel. (E.g. see https://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com/ It seems they have updated their website since last I looked.) It's easy, carbon-neutral, etc.

Re:Fermentation and Daily Life (2018) by Qem on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:05PM (#31877357)
> Fermentation is a easy way to create your own fuel.

Not that easy. The problem is the crop growing and processing you must do beforehand, to get your feedstock for fermentation. I'm from Brazil. Here we have a large industry built around ethanol production from sugarcane. To this day problems like boiler explosions and people falling in sugarcane crushers are not entirely unheard off, and also poor working conditions in sugarcane fields. Not that easy.

Re:Fermentation and Daily Life (2018) by carapace on Saturday June 25, 2022 @03:15PM (#31877884)
Large agri-industrial ethanol production has lots of problems, yes, but small scale local production integrated with regenerative agriculture, as described and promoted in the example link, is a different system. It used to be common for farmers to "grow" their own tractor fuel.
Re:Fermentation and Daily Life (2018) by lmohseni on Saturday June 25, 2022 @06:13PM (#31879172)
Fermentation is a great way to create cheap or free fertilizer and garden amendments. Look up the works of yungsang cho or hankyu cho.