[Terrapreta] Char hydration

[MFH]

You're doing better than me. I've had char in buckets for 3 weeks with added
urea, wee, cow poo and detergent.

There has been some water uptake by the char in the bucket with the soap,
but all the other remains floating like tennis balls.

Source was dry and dense eucalypt.

M


-----Original Message-----
From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of francoise precy
Sent: Tuesday, 3 June 2008 5:46 PM
To: Larry Williams; terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] no instantaneousness = no overnight


Hi Larry,

"Francoise-------Give me a break..." :-) the request for sensibility I
wouldn't even have thought of addressing to you. polite attentive interest
(and neat data, but that's just a side-effect). Am not commenting on British
boarding schools, got enough to say on French ones.

"... the fresh Weber made charcoal (in a 5 gal bucket of about 20 water to 1
urine, Nooksack River rock dust and comfrey leaves-Borage family) sunk after
being in the "juice" for about two weeks, i.e. the charcoal hydrated. This
has been the shortest time that it took to hydrate pieces of charcoal that I
have accomplished.
> What does this mean? It may mean that this is as close to "instant" as it
gets."

... would the rock dust have anything to do with it? I dropped a bag the
other week, it's pretty heavy. But then it also tends to fall at the bottom
of the bucket, so I don't know. Did you stir the thing during soaking
period? 

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