Tribo-power enables space flora/fauna

[Phillip Huggan]

It is possible to affix thermo-mechanical and tribo-electric coatings to plants, coral skeletons and some animals. A central power source would move water or less safely for now, air. Ethane on Triton; tele-operated rocket fuel on Enceladus or tidal-tribo power, power beamed to outer Saturn; a comet with coal, plants only; a Kuiper asteroid with coal, one or two couples soil...all would provide a central power source. Wavy sea grasses can provide self-heat in 6C water. Cacti can be heated metres away from flowing water. Coal is limited and aloe vera are slow growing. Jellyfish are a hard coating to master. Mantis shrimp can wear a necklace. Most shrimp can be heated. Some may be R+D for a weekly space reward dinner. Mantis insects will leave the strip alone. Heated terrarium plants can feed aphids and ants. Spiders can make silk. Scorpions are bio-R+D. Turtles are winners. A hot USA State will get a UHV vacuum chamber enclosing pressured water rapids and desert terrariums and master the spider beetle scorpion ecosystem. The safest one to practise fire and explosive hazards.

 

[Phillip Huggan]

For scorpions, they have a thin layer of wax as their 2nd layer of "skin". A similiar custom engineered wax should be biocompatible. I'd go with metal nanoparticles in the wax and the particles are a metal device heated remotely. Biocompatibility for a creature can be based on own chemical production. Some metals can be uptaked and can form a means of heating (the gob of affixed wax). Think of it as bio RFID tagging. To be a part of a food chain is harder and metal nanoparticles would need to be exfoliating or not the product actuating heating of the animal. Low temps is less disasters for the equipment at first too...
...the pebbles in the stream are 3d printable as is the desert mini-golf hole of area. Sea grass whips a log curve profile reaching horizontal as it tapers. The tribomotor is aerodynamic like a leaf and connected by wire under the stream and to the dry terrarium where it heats a soup can volume +10C. The 3d printed pebbles should be good for biome nutrients. A biologist and an eco-peripherals person can handle this it is difficult unmanned.