[Terrapreta] no instantaneousness = no overnight

[MFH]

Looks like this topic reduces to a quality issue. You see, Australian cow's
poo doesn't smell.

M


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[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of francoise precy
Sent: Monday, 2 June 2008 9:36 PM
To: lwilliams at nas.com; terrapreta at bioenergylists.org; folkeg at gmail.com
Subject: [Terrapreta] no instantaneousness = no overnight


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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