http://www.fungifun.org/fanaticus/mycoalki.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycofiltration

Biological Immobilization of lead from lead sulphide by Aspergillus niger and Serpula himantioides: http://www.bioline.org.br/request?er09052

Imagining some kind of bio-remediation setup with computer PCB, earth and mycelium. Perhaps as part of the “earth computer”: embedded measurement as device in the soil (writing _from_ the soil), use of electrolysis (a crystal garden), earthboot: booting a laptop directly from soil currents. Powering through earth battery mentioned below.

At the same time literal translation of elements such as display (coil/mirror for telluric currents, or piezoelectrics and laser), memory (earth cores arrayed), CPU (point contact, earth doping - see FET below).

grain mycelium, mixer/blender, straw, plastic trays, earth battery (copper, zinc, other metals?), see DIY FET/transistor, for electrolysis: copper and zinc, larger PSU

thin film transistors ref: http://1010.co.uk/materials.html also http://www.andaquartergetsyoucoffee.com/wp/?page_id=130

perhaps also some integration with earth computer project above: doping the earth/soil, the whitby point-contact transistor; doping melt ores

for early semi-conductors/transistors see: reference

approaches: point contact (germanium, galena-lead sulfide), junction (cuprous oxide), FET/thin film (cadmium chloride)

oscillator setup a la: http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/els/ntype-nr-el.htm

curver tracers from simple to complex:

http://www.experimentalistsanonymous.com/ve3wwg/doku.php?id=simple_diode_tracer

http://www.intio.or.jp/jf10zl/trct.htm

http://www.idea2ic.com/BiCmosCurveTracer/Arduino%2520BiCmos%2520Curve%2520Tracer.html

point contact: phosphor bronze from guitar strings, germanium, galena(lead,sulphur,silver)

cuprous oxide: copper sheet, borax, lye(drain cleaner), silver ink

thin films (sci am): thiourea, cadmium chloride, indium, vinyl cement, silver paste, silicone

thin films/zinc oxide ref: indium replaced with conductive adhesive, zinc nitrate, propanol

• Goldschmidt/thermite redox reaction see 'synthetic geologies' on techniques

• crushed ores heated to high temps (microwave/diy furnace (gas/charcoal + blower/bellows)/ arc welder (diy Moissan arc furnace) see 'smelt techniques' on techniques

• sedimenting new geologies in layers through melt pours/flattening, laminating (eg. geologic battery cells) and doping with bio-infestations (cyanobacteria/algae)

crushed/powdered ores

thermite reaction - concrete area outdoors, clay pot/similar, iron + aluminium oxides/ores, magnesium powder + ribbon, small amount of barium nitrate,

microwave - diy microkilns (alumina crucibles coated w. cmc/silicon carbide or magnetite, clay pots, alumina/ceramic fibre blankets

furnace - furnace, graphite crucibles, moulds or heavy steel plates

Moissan furnace - alumina bricks, copper sheet electrodes, old arc welder

• rochelle salts - http://www.instructables.com/id/Rochelle-Salt/?ALLSTEPS Materials: cream of tartar (Potassium Bitartrate or Potassium Hydrogen Tartrate) and sodium carbonate (washing soda - can be made by heating baking soda in an oven at 300°F for 2 hours or with limestone and salt in Solvay process, also it has aperiodic crystal structure) - entrain to grow as aperiodic crystals/tiles re. Ralf/Martin display idea
• silver crystals grown by electrolysis of silver anode, aluminium/metal cathode in silver nitrate solution - need microscope to see.. or just suspend copper wire in it and silver crystals will grow overnight
• precipitation/crystallizations of: eg. sodium borate (Borax - JK), nickel sulphate hydrate, potassium chromium sulphate, copper sulphate (JK), ferrous ammonium sulphate, alum (JK), monoammonium phosphate (JK)

• ultrasonic: piezoelectric crystals (quartz, rochelle salt) attached to high freq. AC power source (500 and 2,000 kHz) > rapid expansion/contractions = transmission of ultrasonic waves → reflected off (body) and received by quartz, transduced → electric signals eg. display image
• signal → magnet, quartz, tin can = piezoelectric speaker (ref. http://bizarrelabs.com/foxhole.htm)
• shaking quartz crystals in dark → triboluminescence
• use variable conductive ores → point contact diodes/semi-conductors in arrays w. other circuits/measurement-display projects (http://softsolder.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/diy-diodes-nisley.pdf)

• local groundwater precipitations vs. grow-your-own from supersaturated solutions
• silicon precipitations: see techniques - including how to make silicon from sand; making sodium silicate (towards synthetic fossilizations); growing a crystal jungle.

onion skins, mushroom, samples (10x20mm) immersed 1 hr. and rinsed in distilled water → preparations of 1000/3000/5000 ppm sodium silicate in leachate/contaminated water from recycling experiments left for 24hrs/1week → microscopic photography for comparative rates of deformation/preservation

PH meter, Hcl, flasks

• Casimir quantum effect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bmxIwgLYEY

• earth power (after: transducer of the earth, Nathan Stubblefield), composite earth batteries http://johnbedini.net/john34/stubblefield.html

• http://www.creative-science.org.uk/sea1.html Baghdad batteries in series to drive a simple electrolysis reaction….Using silver and copper electrodes in a vinegar electrolyte we found (given enough time) that we could successfully silver plate the copper using our set-up

induction coil furnace + conductive work piece + mineral = pyroelectric effect

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto

eg. investigate use of leachate solutions (question whether water separates acid from its crystal matrix) (nitric -42°C, hydrochloric -46°C, sulphuric -3°C - but depresses when <100%) → microscopy/kirlian imaging experiments

use liquid nitrogen/dry ice (fridge/freezers -18 to -34°C)

see: http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=summit2011:hv

JK to bring kit from London - glass plates, clips, transistors, 1x ignition coil, acetates

see: http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=artificial_fulgurites and http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=openlab_fulgurites

one idea is to use new geologies (synthesized computer minerals) (fossilizations of the anthropocene), as crushed (accelerated erosions) substrate for high voltage discharges → fulgurites

mot(s), neon transformer (try arc welder), bucket/box, ignition leads, stick, powedered minerals/silica etc

see: http://www.fotokatie.com/katier/?tag=odic-negative

http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=recrystallization:berlin_resource#colloidal