[Terrapreta] FW: [Gasification] soil and plant nutrition off topiccomments

[Sean K. Barry]

Wow ... white rot fungi and huge CEC  That is a compelling story Tom Miles.  Invite this Tom Taylor onto our list, please.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Miles<mailto:tmiles at trmiles.com> 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 6:12 PM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] FW: [Gasification] soil and plant nutrition off topiccomments


  Tom Taylor sent the following message to the Gasification discussion list in
  response to a post about terra preta.   
   
  > Dear Tom Miles,
  >      For 35 years, we supplied a naturally occurring organic mineral
  > which has more chemical benefits than charring, or organic materials such
  as
  > composts or manures. Some idea of chemical activity can be gained from the
  > cation exchange capacity of a carbon compound, similar to that of the
  > absorption area of charcoal. This mined product has a cation exchange of
  900-1200 meq/100
  > gms (milliequivalents/100 grams), composts may be 35, normal soils 12-20,
  > clay solid 20-25. The deposit was from a freshwater swamp formed millions
  of years
  > ago and contained various microbes which included white rot fungi which
  can eat
  > lignin, long chain hydrocarbon molecules, and kept our mining equipment
  > worn out before it's time.
  >      The microbes would eat the paper bags in about 60 days, and
  > polyethylene bags even in stretch wrapped pallets in about 3-4 months.
  Tires would
  > be blue after a rain from the digestion of the rubber.
  >      This product when used with the right nutritional program produced
  > spectacular results. We shipped it to Greece and doubled the sugar beet
  > production, Guatemala and set the world's blueberry, raspberry and
  strawberry
  > prices that year from the volume that the 10 truckloads shipped to the
  single
  > grower produced. Various crops including cotton, alfalfa, corn, wheat,
  milo,
  > lots of various trees, including citrus, mangos (Brazil, Costa Rica) and
  so,
  > freeze resistance in pineapple, citrus, apple, apricot, peach, and other
  crops
  > was significantly increased. I was pretty proud of getting a 5.3 bale
  > cotton crop in Arizona and 96 bushels/acre of soybeans in Wisconsin.
  >      When it comes to raising crops for biomass energy programs, the
  > norms can easily be broken and completely different economics apply. This
  is
  > the single biggest limiting factor to biomass energy projects.
  >      This all crashed down when the US Gov't failed to follow court
  > orders from a US District Judge in Albuquerque, and the State of New
  Mexico
  > likewise didn't follow his orders although they were not specifically
  required
  > to, and the mine was closed. A contempt of court order was issued against
  the
  > Bureau of Land Management for not following the judge's order but he
  didn't have
  > jurisdiction against the State and it was not able to operate the mine
  > any longer.
  > All of the equipment still sits there.


  > Sincerely,
  > Leland T. Taylor
  > Leland T."Tom" Taylor
  > President
  > Thermogenics Inc.
  > 7100-F 2nd St. NW Albuquerque, NM 87107
  > Phone:505-463-8422 Fax:505-268-9206 (call first)
  > Web:thermogenics.com



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