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2004-08-23 Southeast Asia

Jolts of Electricity Reviving Coral Reef

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Posted by Zenster 2004-08-23 12:03:49 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Concerned citizens like Brown and Naryana have long supported community programs to educate the locals about the long-term consequences of the reefâs worst enemy: fishing with explosives.

Old Punchline: Do you want to talk? Or do you want to fish?

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-23 12:39:32 PM|| 2004-08-23 12:39:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Clear!
*bz-ZAP*

Posted by eLarson 2004-08-23 2:12:31 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-08-23 2:12:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 My personal WTF moment in an otherwise absorbing article:

"Naryana, who was born Randall Dodge in Nebraska"

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-08-23 2:51:15 PM|| 2004-08-23 2:51:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Er, I read that article through twice. I see nothing about control sets. How certain are they that the presence of metal grates for a matrix isn't providing their effect? I seem to remember that people use things like decommissioned cruisers and piles of Patton tanks for this exact reason...

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-08-23 2:52:59 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-23 2:52:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I think we should build nuclear generating plants on the shore next to all reefs and do this. After all, the reefs are far more important than the fact that elelctricity has to be generated.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-08-23 2:58:51 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-08-23 2:58:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I see nothing about control sets.

While not a proper control group, this effect has already been determined to exist for simple accretion, so acceleration of polyp growth is not a huge leap. The current induced convection may indeed "sweep" nutrients towards those polyps already attached to the charged substrate.

The grids were then seeded with small fragments of live coral, which begin to grow "between five and 10 times faster than normal, with much brighter colors and more resilience to hot weather and pollution," said a co-owner of the Taman Sari Cottages, an American who goes by the single name Naryana ... Grids that suffered power failures saw less vigorous development and duller colors.

#5 I think we should build nuclear generating plants on the shore next to all reefs and do this. After all, the reefs are far more important than the fact that elelctricity has to be generated.

Nice try, Chuck.

Brown estimates the amount of electricity used in a week is equal to burning a single 60-watt bulb for a month.

You don't need nuclear reactors to power a flashlight. And you had better bet that enhancing reef growth is of equal or greater importance than increasing the production of nuclear power. The degree of reliance that marine life has upon coral reef structures may well exceed even that of krill and is probably exceeded only by the importance of plankton when it comes to sustaining natatorial life. Reefs promote sheltered environments for piscine nurseries and additionally represent huge food factories that also act as breakwaters to promote substantially greater populations than open ocean water ever could. Atoll formations increase wildlife diversity and therefore expand the food chain in ways that a nuclear reactor just isn't capable of doing.

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-23 3:19:04 PM|| 2004-08-23 3:19:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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