Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> From: "altamira" <altamira@ecpi.com>
>
> >Phyto-mining, or biomining, is the use of plants to extract
> >valuable heavy-metal minerals from soils.
>
> I first heard of a member of a group called the Bioneers doing this
> a number of years ago. The person involved was actually an artist
> and used this to "bioremediate" an area that was a former battery
> dump.
That would be a useful application of the technology, sure.
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