[Terrapreta] Poultry Waste Plant

[joe ferguson]

    Alternative energy plant to go in Surry (county, NC, USA):
    http://www.newsobserver.com/print/friday/business/story/1098244.html

This article appeared in today's paper.  I send it to indicate the 
magnitude of subsidies available to operations when there is a 
connection to governmentally acknowledged problems, in this case, an 
agricultural waste product: poultry litter.

Thinking outside the box, if we can tie the interests of soil 
improvement with some other pressing social need so that one feeds the 
other, we might make much speedier improvement in both soil condition 
and the social problem.  Lots of financial resources are already being 
thrown at various of these problems, and if a processing path and a good 
economic case can be made, perhaps some of that financial resource 
stream can be captured for the benefit of industrial-scale TP funding.

It may or may not increase land productivity or demonstrate other 
benefits that the TP advocates promise, but it should lock up some 
elemental carbon for a few millennia.

And that, my friends, is a worthy goal.