Sunday, July 26, 2015



At low power by scanning EM we have:

At high magnification by transmission EM we have:



What we do know is that this reaction is taking place:














Passthecream said...

This is deeply interesting.

Have to say: even if no demons are insight, there will be a devil or two in the details somewhere! I have a feeling we are back near that bacterial battery again ie proton flow through a semi-permeable salt bridge, compensatory electron flow through 'wire'.


Passthecream said...

I had a passing thought about electron currents vs proton currents - in terms of electrical potential it's trivial that moving a + charge out of an area has the same relative effect as moving a - charge in. In terms of potential difference ==> electromotive force, less negative is identical to more positive. So then I thought about semiconductor theory and had the idea of protein 'transistors' - cell subunits running hard wired protein logic.

( It turns out that various groups are working on protein semiconductors eg )

There's nothing particaularly relevant to your detailed proposals here but I wonder if the electron/hole approximations used in semiconductor physics would have some applicability?

3.1 Energy bands and electrical conduction
3.2 Charge carriers (electrons and holes)

just thinking...

Peter said...

Absolutely. Looking at electron input down the FeS wires, electron input/output through the membrane (CoQ couple) and proton (hole) flow through the pore I keep being dragged to analogies of a semiconductor device. Adding in mtG3Pdh and ETFdh makes the membrane in to a semiconductor chip integrating energy status.

I spent many, many hours on this paper.

It contains a number of logical flaws but is interesting never the less.

I also spent an embarrassing amount of time on this appalling paper

which is very interesting re quantum tunnelling within DHA (probably real) but marks Crawford out to me as, well, not a person of note. I’m unable to wet my knockers over DHA. Does the Frohlich effect matter? Possibly, but people need to write better papers than this to convince me that they remotely know what they are talking about. Did DHA “cause” a big brain. Well duh, no. An evolutionary advantage to a bigger brain made a bigger brain worth developing. What bricks are available? Ah, DHA, I’ll use that. DHA “controls” DNA to generate a bigger brain? Don’t make me laugh.

And don’t even start me on this embarrassing paper

Ms Bradbury is welcome to join me for a picnic on Caister beach. My kids and their great grandad Victor can gather us a DHA/protein rich lunch while I write a symphony and correct her paper at the same time.

But yes, the base of Ech looks a lot like a field effect transistor to me….


Passthecream said...

" this embarrassing paper"

Might be more digestible if it was printed on seaweed.


Peter said...

Or carved in to pre set concrete

Passthecream said...

This is the antidote:

Vegan carbaholics ==> zombies, hence the general poor mien and uncontrollable desire to eat brains.

Peter said...

But just trust Cordain to throw away the mesenteric and sub lumbar fat. Anyone would think he was a lipophobic PUFA lover. Oh.....

I prefer

But then I would, wouldn't I!

Passthecream said...

Yes I like that one too. Since I first read it I have been wondering how much pemmican could have been made from one elephant.

Vis-a-vis W3's, various fats and protein, you can get them from dryland molluscs, termites, amphibians, moths, grashoppers, myriad other small creatures and reptiles. I have read (somewhere?) that there is as high a density of nutrients in the Aus. drylands to be had from termites and reptiles as there is from big game on the African savannah.


tristopia said...

You can look how fat elephant is

as can be seen, the Gabonese to not fear fat as the sauce is made of red palm oil.