[Terrapreta] charcoal in plantings of Jatropha curcas

[Roy Lent]

Of course you can "steal" it. Just like I did as I got the idea originally
from people using tumbling drums powered by water wheels to polish jasper
and agate pebbles for jewelry use.

Roy

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
wrote:

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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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