Re: [DIYbio] Could I harvest bacteria and fungi for cleaning agents at home?

On 11/04/2012 07:35 PM, Ulysses1994XF04 wrote:
> Do you think it would be possible to harvest bacteria and fungi that I grow

on things like food waste, shredded newspapers, grass
> clippings, etc and harvest them for cleaning agents to use around the

house (enzymes, membrane lipids to make soap, etc)?

The time honored way is to use your compost to sun grow oil stocks like
olive trees, soybeans, castor beans or cotton if dry near the desert, etc.

Do you want to synthesize that process? If you're looking at practical
results, maybe optimize a plant "oil stock" that already does that
process, but maybe microbes can do it better -- not from
ordinary dirt and sun farming? The first question in my mind is, where does the
energy come from without photosynthesis?

http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/1306149211s_PP-051.pdf says,
"Although India ranks among the largest producers of oilseeds in the world such as USA, China and Brazil, its productivity is
quite low." [circa 2001]

Will India become a big veg oil exporter, or do you have an idea for growing oil locally
by efficient spending? What does that look like? Vats? Fungus heaps? Fields? Caves?

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