[Terrapreta] charcoal in plantings of Jatropha curcas

Michael Bailes michaelangelica at gmail.com
Mon May 19 01:07:03 CDT 2008


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> *The cultivation of Jatropha curcas should include considerable prunning
> and although these prunings would make poor fuel charcoal, they should be
> suitable for *terra preta *uses. Since I assume that the charcoal should
> be reduced as finely as possible to go in the soil, why not place it in a
> rolling drum with some rocks to be turned by a small water wheel?


 That's a good inventive, energy saving idea.
Can I steal it?
A bit like the way dinosaurs munched up their hard greens!


-- 
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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