http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/27/breaking-down-crab-shells-could-improve-solar-technology/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/27/breaking-down-crab-shells-could-improve-solar-technology/#comment-114796 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=35030#comment-114796 The shells you have pictured above are NOT a source of chitin. They’re made of calcium… The chitin being used in this R and D project is derived from the flexible shells of shrimp, lobster, crayfish, soft shell crabs, and the like… Your comments about ocean acidification – based on chitin – are therefore false assumptions… The supply of chitin from the global shrimp industry is huge. Furthermore, the supply of chitin is actually expanding, because aqua-farming is being mastered and the supply of farm raised shellfish is expanding rapidly. For example, Aqua Manna has a zero waste recycling system that produces 6,000 pounds of shrimp a year from four 18 ft diameter portable swimming pool tanks. This is happening on land – in FOWLER, Indiana… See: “Benton County shrimp farm one of six in the country” by Aaron Leedy.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/27/breaking-down-crab-shells-could-improve-solar-technology/#comment-114518 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:22:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=35030#comment-114518 Wise application of Biomimicking!
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com

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