Time to sell the Gold~ Science found a bacteria that poops it out!

I don't even know where to go with this.... but I thought it was interesting...

http://gizmodo.com/5948739/researchers-discover-bacteria-that-can-produce-pure-gold

 

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This is more along the lines of curiosity or art than any useful science at the moment.

 

Interesting read, OP.

Quick everyone.....sell all your gold and buy silver. :devil:

 

Which grading service will be the first to offer a "Poop Gold" slab?

 

Read an identical thread here: http://www.cointalk.com/t214921/

 

It is not creating :smile It is gold chloride you can talk it apart with much cheaper chemicals.

"Reaction with reducing agents such as hydrogen peroxide or Fe[SUP]2+[/SUP] causes elemental gold to be precipitated from solution"


Unf. only way to create gold is thru a supernova. There is way to create gold thru fusion or fission but....

 

I'm thinking there's probably some bacteria somewhere near Fukushima or Chernobyl that can ingest lead and poop out gold.

 

I read about this bacteria, but where would the gold chloride come from? Its not like its common, more of a byproduct from mining. If anything, this will help clean up mines and let them get small increases in recoverable gold.

Not bad things at all.

The thing that would cause a panic would be an invention that collects dissolved gold from ocean water economically. That would be the major breathrough bringing billions of ounces of more production online.

 

*Tinfoil time* Most ufo experts believe that any alien race invading earth, would come to extract minerals from ocean water since it is more feasible and cheaper than mining asteroids.

 

LOL! I didn't realize that "UFO experts" had that much insight into not only alien technologies, but alien economics. I'd dearly love to hear them explain how hauling any mineral up out of Earth's gravity well is cheaper than finding it in asteroids, or the Oort cloud, or Saturn's rings and satellites, or any number of other places.

The original work is of scientific interest because these bacteria are much more tolerant of toxic gold chloride than others. It's getting media coverage because OMG MAKING GOLD. Never mind that it's still much simpler, cheaper, quicker, and probably more environmentally friendly to just precipitate out the gold using traditional methods.

 

Maybe there isn't any gold on asteroids and other places. Maybe this is gold capital of the galaxy.

 

It's a very badly written article. There is no gold creation. It's extracted from gold chloride which they even managed to spell wrong. (chlroride) Further more it's a man made compound that takes gold to make in the first place.

Gizmodo once had higher standards than this.

 

Why is it tinfoil hat time? The largest deposit of gold on earth is in the ocean. I guess I don't understand how saying that makes me a kook.

 

I'm old enough to recall the time when belief in the existence of the CFR was considered tinfoil, and now they are on MSNBC and CSPAN almost every day. And then there are the flouride tinfoil stories which turned out to be true. And I'm sure there are some people who still think Elvis is dead but it's only a matter of time when this will be exposed too.

 

From the better-written article in the Washington Post, linked in the previous, identical thread: "But before you grab your lab coat and rush out to nab some of the gold -pooping bacteria, stop. It is about as rare as the precious metal itself. And if you’re thinking you can synthesize the reaction in your basement using your gold jewelry, think again. The bacteria is grown on large concentrations of gold chloride — the toxic metal in question — also known as liquid gold."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...617f178-0e5d-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html

 

I interpreted the "tinfoil time" as applying to the "UFO experts", not you. Clearly, there's a lot of gold in the ocean.

The "kook" part, it seems to me, comes from the idea that extracting this extremely dilute gold, then hauling it not only off-planet but out of the solar system, would somehow be cheaper than just getting it elsewhere.

 

You will notice in reading the story, that the bacteria were inside gold incubator vessels, not in common environmental conditions. They probably either won't grow in real ife conditions or worse such as salt water, mining tailings, mining leach ponds etc. The bacteria also may just be able to accumulate the gold, but not hold it internal against a diffusion grade and not concentrate it which would be necessary for commercial applications. I think it is a cutely designed experiments so they can keep the gold incubator vessels, left over gold chloride, etc. after the NSF or whoever loses interest. IMO.

 

Maybe some alien technology expert will tell us why they would even want gold.

 

Yea tin foil was in reference to idea of aliens and notion of them invading for resources. I believe their explanation is earth will serve as strategic hub and the resources can be used for building, refueling and repairing their ships to expand their empire not necessarily for extraction to send it back home.

Desertgem,
From my uderstanding, gold is useful for radiation shielding.