[TML] Plants, animals and characters

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 3 Apr 2008 at 19:42, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> On 4/3/08 5:17 PM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Eating, I need some help here but the roots of the energy system are:
> > the sun, geothermal and ???? After that it is all about eating others
> > and how fast, big and or resistant to eating the others are and you
> > are.
> 
> Solar is by for the primary.  Geothermal is only available in very limited
> areas, and those areas can die out over time.  I really don't know over any
> other *known* sources.

I just recalled that a *lot* of bacteria get energy from processing 
things like sulfide ores into sulfates.

Not going to work for large animals, but bacteria will do 
chemosynthesis in the presence of the like sort of ores. 

Do note that it's the chemicals *not* the heat that are the basis of 
the ecosystems around deep ocean vents.


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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