[Terrapreta] Frenzy

[Michael Bailes]

The Chinese have been using all sorts of poo for thousands of years
including Pig poo for fireworks
In the early days of Australian settlement the Chinese were despised as they
collected "Night Soil" but they also sold beautiful vegetables that saved
many a life from scurvy and other deficiency diseases !!
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2008/6/11 MFH <mfh01 at bigpond.net.au>:

>  Its becoming increasingly obvious that there's the beginning of a whole
> new "wordsmithing" industry on how to save the planet, like using human poo:
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/11/2271675.htm
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> Asian farmers have been doing this for millenniums. But that was before
> antibiotics and HGH's and oral contraceptives, and not just the ones that
> are filtered by bodies but the pills that are tossed down the toilet. As per
> a previous article, at least one farmer has ended up with sterile cows.
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> I'd assume that if sewage sludge was a source for Biochar, then 500-600 deg
> C during the process would overcome most of these issues.
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-- 
Michael the Archangel
"Politicians will never solve The Problem;
because they don't realise they are The Problem.".
-Robert ( Bob ) Parsons 1995
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