I had never heard of Protocells but they look promising. I love the explanation by Sarah Maurer and "Knitting a Protocell" - a scientific poster. The future is in good hands. Protocell videos
"protocells – tiny droplets of fatty oil suspended in water, that have been engineered to behave like living microorganisms."...Under certain conditions, the oil droplets will develop a precipitate coating that they eventually slough off....It might all sound like science fiction, but it is currently being publicly demonstrated, on a small scale. Hylozoic Ground, an installation created for the Canadian Pavilion in the Venice Biennale 2010, uses protocells to create carbon-containing solids from the CO2 exhaled by visitors.... it is also hoped that the technology could be used to stabilize the entire city of Venice, by creating a limestone “reef” beneath its foundations that would spread the structural weight-load of the city.
