[Terrapreta] no instantaneousness = no overnight

[francoise precy]

Sean,

didn't know that 'overnight' topic'd go on. It's only about the overnight "making Amazon style TP soils" we're on, c'mon, forgive me please I ask you Sean, admit it's mad dream so we can all get over it and besides it gives bad press to scientists. Of course there are instantaneous effects other ways. So it's good to dream, but it's got to be 'along with' the (so-called) medium, not 'about' it as in 'manipulating it as per Our needs and wishes'. Can't expect to find overall coherence otherwise. And there is a miracle already in that soil, no point blurring it by making things up on top or we'll never get near it. "Explore with the curiosity of a SENSIBLE young boy". Heh.. not meaning to be abrupt, i think it's just that part of life that's so. 

Folke, Larry, 
"Why in one situation the charcoal seems absorb smells and in another it seems to retain a modified smell is interesting." 
thank you for getting my attention on the smell aspect, it's most intesting indeed, notably the modified smell. Got put off experiments last year by people moaning at the bucket of cow dung cum charcoal I had left to macerate a few weeks in a corner. I should have stuck to my guns. Thing is, the only place I could leave it (without risking myselft being packed up along with the bucket) was near the pile of dung itself and that overpowers all smells within about 200m (a layer of charcoal between the loads may do wonders there?). Tried to leave The Bucket (it acquired capitals along with the bad looks) in the field with the cows, cows kept toppling it off. So Bucket was outranked and I had to drop the experiment, with acrid memories. So when gone back home I had forgotten that I thought it was the pile itself and not the bucket. Am getting back to it, thanks. 

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