[Terrapreta] Greenhouse Gases, Forestry, Dinassour Carbon, IPCC, Carbon Tax, etc, etc...

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Lou

lou gold wrote:
> Kevin it sounds like you might mean, "/How can char// be used in the 
> soil to its greatest advantage?/" minus the possible advantages for 
> (1) carbon sequestration for atmospheric CO2 reduction, (2) waste 
> management, (3) water retention and purification, (4) funding a new 
> agriculture, (5) reducing deforestation and (6) re-balancing the 
> relationship between large human populations and the earth.

Those are excellent topics on their own, and would each be deserving of 
a List of their own.  Folding all those topics into the Terra Preta List 
dilutes the  content directly relevant to the use of charcoal in the 
soil  to 1/7 of its potential strength.

With our present lack of knowledge about how to use char in the soil to 
best advantage, it is like a car with no wheels. Progress in your 1: to 
6: areas of interest will be seriously hampered without the knowledge of 
how to best use char in the soil. Lets put wheels on the car and then we 
can really go places with the topics of interest and concern to you and 
Sean.

Would you know of any other Lists that focus on "/How can char// be used 
in the soil to its greatest advantage?/"

Best wishes,

Kevin


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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Kevin Chisholm 
> <kchisholm at ca.inter.net <mailto:kchisholm at ca.inter.net>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Lou
>
>
>     lou gold wrote:
>>     Kevin,
>>
>>     I will be blunt.
>>
>>     I think that you should stop reading and responding to subjects
>>     that don't interest you and let others do as they please.
>
>     I also will be blunt.
>     I think you should stop writing postings that are not more
>     directly relevant to whatever Tom Miles, the List Owner, decides
>     is relevant to the TP List. :-)
>
>>     There is no harm in discussing peripherals. You are acting like
>>     some type of thought police.
>
>     Tom Miles: What are your views on what should be the nature of
>     postings to the TP list at this point in time? Do you think that
>     it should focus more directly on topics that are on a track to
>     answering the question: "/How can char// be used in the soil to
>     its greatest advantage?/", OR do you think it should encourage
>     peripheral discussions on issues not related to answering the
>     above question?
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     Kevin
>
>
>
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>>     lou
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>>     On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Kevin Chisholm
>>     <kchisholm at ca.inter.net <mailto:kchisholm at ca.inter.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         In reviewing the recent volume of postings, it strikes me
>>         that the most of the List Volume is peripheral to the what
>>         some of us feel should be the main objective of the TP list:
>>         Answering the question:
>>          "/How can char// be used in the soil to its greatest
>>         advantage?/"
>>
>>         All these other threads and topics are interesting in their
>>         own right, and serve a purpose in their own right, but they
>>         don't seem to advance us toward the goal of answering
>>         questions about the use of Terra Preta in the soil?
>>
>>         Is there any way we can get back on subject and focus on
>>         addressing the question:
>>         "/How can char// be used in the soil to its greatest advantage?/"
>>
>>         What do others think about this suggestion? Do you think it
>>         has merit? Do you think it will help prevent loss of TP List
>>         subscribers?
>>
>>         Best wishes,
>>
>>         Kevin
>>
>>         _
>>