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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Earth charity
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:10:29 -0700


On Jan 31, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Don Bowen KI6DIU wrote:

But the carbon in this dead zone is unavailable to plants except as water
storage. The carbon and nitrogen are food for the microbes that break them
down to make them available to growing plants.

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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