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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] straw bales as greenhouse heat source??
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:30:32 -0500

Hey, I hate to be the dense one, but that's not really 7-15 gallons of WATER that your soaking the bales in. It's water and SOMETHING ELSE, SOMETHING VERY "N"ish. If this were a permaculture list, I wouldnt have to guess what we were all thinking of using for 'water.'

On this list, particularly in an organic context, I've got to ask: what are you going to use in that water to heat a 50lb bale of carbon to over 110 degrees.

This isn't a challenge.

I just got to know.

Next to that: isn't it standard folk lore that warm bales of straw (apparently) spontaneously generate populations of rats? Will the ground cover prevent that?

Thanks

-Allan




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