[Homestead] Earth charity
Jerry B
liberty at kaballero.com
Thu Jan 31 15:44:09 EST 2008
Errr, I inadvertently deleted that I was thinking of posting to Allen
Yeomans himself.
Jerry B wrote:
> I really do want to get to the bottom of these issues. There are very
> few things more important to me.
> I may paraphrase these comments and make it clear his comments will be
> published here. I think there is a good chance he will reply.
> -------
> The more available and tapped by the plants roots, the more of these
> Carbon ladened substances are deposited in the soil, and more carbon
> deposited and so on. As long as the elements of sun, water, and air can
> get to the roots. Without a hard-pan layer blocking the forces of
> gravity, the burrowing of creatures (ie earthworms) and especially the
> channel formation from decaying roots, these substances move further
> downwards. all this played a part also in depositing carbon under the
> oceans and land in the form of oil and coal.
>
> Rather ironically, given present attention, the soil under virgin
> forests and jungles is relatively devoid of this action, hence carbon.
> Tree roots may last for long periods of time, unlike grasses, without
> decay, and are in the main, run quite shallow. It can take thousand of
> years to get past the solid substratum formed under forests and jungles
> ... thanks Allen. I was not sufficiently aware of that fact.
>
> jerry b
> ------------------------
> Gene GeRue wrote:
>
>> On Jan 31, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Don Bowen KI6DIU wrote:
>>
>>
>> And that brings us to why I am skeptical about the carbon
>> sequestration premise. The carbon gets into the soil through the
>> plants. It gets down to the roots. But the next crop or the next crop
>> after will be eating the nutrients the microorganisms produce when
>> they are eating those roots. Why should the carbon stay down there?
>>
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