Oh, this is so cool. I have found myself discarding vast quantities of SCOBY in previous attempts at home brewing. It would be great to put that byproduct to use.
It might be easier to compost it.
Yeah, that is how I discarded it.
if the required uniformity and stability can be achieved this could be an interesting alternative for pcb substrates.
regarding their other research, probing living cultures for dynamic electrical response. no doubt it may offer creative routes to novel technology…but something about it unsettles me. maybe we should think before we zap living things.
To be fair though, consider baking bread. We breed a culture of yeast and then bake it to death and eat their husks.
True.
Though it becomes a part of us when we eat it. So maybe we’re slightly less on the hook for those cases?
I can’t imagine that’s much consolation for the yeast. :)
