[Terrapreta] Energy Source

[Duane Pendergast]

          Sean, Kurt, 

 

As to proof we are not necessarily stupid, I'd again like to encourage list
members to submit proposals for papers to the Engineering Institute of
Canada Climate Change Conference. 

 

http://www.cctc2009.ca/

 

There writers will be subject to some degree of formal peer review to help
keep them on the science-engineering path. The Internet is wonderful but it
is turning into a tower of babble and it's increasingly hard to separate the
wheat from the chaff.

 

Having your ideas, analysis and supporting data formally published will help
a bit with credibility.

 

I'm organizing speakers for the opening plenary session and have one who has
indicated he will introduce the terra preta concept there in the overall
session context of engineering, energy and sustainable development.

 

Duane

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean K. Barry [mailto:sean.barry at juno.com] 
Sent: May 11, 2008 10:44 PM
To: still.thinking at computare.org; 'Terra Preta'; 'Kurt Treutlein'
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Energy Source

 

Hi Duane,

 

I agree that Bob Dratch's ideas are not the normal for what I would expect.
I also agree that using nuclear power to carbonize more biomass into
charcoal is a pretty good idea, compared to burning 1/2 the biomass we
harvest (and letting the gases and heat go into the atmosphere, unused) to
make the other 1/2 into charcoal.  Making Terra Preta Nova or Neo Terra
Preta do the jobs we need it to do will take LOTS of charcoal.  Nuclear
power can help us get more sooner.

 

Hmmmm  ... Is there any proof that anyone one of us isn't stupid?!

 

Regards,

 

SKB

 

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