And he had potassium nitrate.

We're not the first ones to process cellulose.

So they're spinning these tiny nano fibers of pure cellulose.

It then spread to a huge stockpile 800 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

Ammonium nitrate can be purchased easily and cheaply in most countries as fertilizer.

It had three chemicals we were really surprised to see sulfur, potassium nitrate and charcoal.

The mushrooms then are harvested, but very importantly, the mycelium has converted the cellulose into fungal sugars.

Besides legitimate purchases, significant quantities of ammonium nitrate are occasionally stolen from dealers and other storage sites.

To this effect, the United Kingdom adopted the Ammonium Nitrate Materials (High Nitrogen Content) Safety Regulations in 2003.

Generating ethanol from cellulose using mycelium as an intermediary and you gain all the benefits that I've described to you already.

What I'm not suggesting is that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials.

And because of the super absorbency of this kind of cellulose, it just takes one, and a really short one at that.

Bacterial cellulose is actually already being used for wound healing, and possibly in the future for biocompatible blood vessels, possibly even replacement bone tissue.

But to go from cellulose to ethanol is ecologically unintelligent, and I think that we need to be econologically intelligent about the generation of fuels.

I'm essentially using a kombucha recipe, which is a symbiotic mix of bacteria, yeasts and other micro organisms, which spin cellulose in a fermentation process.

These regulations establish certifiable standards and control mechanisms on ammonium nitrate based products and compounds, particularly those containing more than 28 per cent by weight of nitrogen.

This was part of Phase 1 (2002 2003) examples of activities included mathematical models for nitrate transfer, preparation of vulnerability maps, and establishing a soil and water database.

Ammonium nitrate has been used by terrorists in the composition of bombs for numerous attacks, including the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 and the Istanbul bombings of November 2003.

Finally, I came to know it is a special cellulose derived from a pinewood, but even after that, you need a multimillion dollar plant like this to process that material. Again, a stop up.

Now, spray foam is an excellent insulator it fills in all the cracks but it is pretty high embodied energy, and, sprayed in cellulose or blue jeans is a much lower energy alternative to that.

You know, I started off with little tiny amounts of potassium nitrate and sugar, which was readily available, and I mixed it in different proportions, and I tried to light it on fire.

Iraq also states that possible increases in levels of nitrate, phosphorus and organic matter in the treated wastewater used for irrigation may have had beneficial effects on crop yields by providing more nutrients.

Al Qaida supporters arrested in the United Kingdom in March 2004 on suspicion of planning a massive explosion in central London were found to have acquired and stored over half a ton of ammonium nitrate.

In previous years, microbiological inspections detected most often contaminants as follows increased total or aerobic mesophyllic bacteria, E. coli and faecal streptococcus, while chemical analyses detected organic contents, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, iron, and other toxic matters (disinfection processes by products).

Despite the difficulties of effective regulation of dual use goods, the Monitoring Team believes there is scope to introduce new measures that would limit the ability of Al Qaida and the Taliban to use commercial or improvised explosives, such as ammonium nitrate.

And the reason for this, it turned out, after two or three years' work, was that in the skin we have huge stores not of nitric oxide, because nitric oxide is a gas, and it's released and in a few seconds it's away, but it can be turned into these forms of nitric oxide nitrate, NO3 nitrite, NO2 nitrosothiols.

Another promising development is bioplastics, which have begun to compete with petroleum based products in certain short lifespan applications such as packaging and agriculture over the last two decades. Given that bioplastics are produced from renewable or bio based sources (cellulose, starch, and glucose) and, in some cases, through microbial fermentation they have a lower carbon footprint, contribute less to global warming, and biodegrade to small molecules.

In view of the threat posed by improvised explosives and the potential to reduce the threat through national regulatory mechanisms, the Team recommends that the Council urge States to share established legislative best practice on the matter, and encourage States that have not already done so to introduce safety regulations governing the manufacture and sale of ammonium nitrate based products with a high nitrogen content.

At the Mayak Industrial Reprocessing Complex in Russia s southern Urals, a storage tank holding nitrate acetate salts exploded in 1957, releasing a massive amount of radioactive material over 20,000 square kilometers, forcing the evacuation of 272,000 people. In September 1994, an explosion at Indonesia s Serpong research reactor was triggered by the ignition of methane gas that had seeped from a storage room and exploded when a worker lit a cigarette.