permaculture

[William Genest <genest@pivot.net>]

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trasdtional diets....


On Sep 8, 2005, at 2:51 AM, Martin Naylor wrote:

> seeing the optimum diet for man is fresh fruit and vegetables,
> do we need fish and animal products, [for that matter how much  
> grain is necesery for optimum health, i've just started going raw,  
> so don't have much personal proof, although Joel Fuhrman m.d. eat  
> to live presents a lot of scientific evidence and case history's.] 
> as this been explored in p.c.
> excelent work lawrence
>
>
> "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net> wrote:
> Anyone interested in exploring possibilities with living machines
> add your commens.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tall grasses  
> set to
> power Europe
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 04:11:42 -0400
> From: Lawrence F. London, Jr.
> To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU
>
> Lion Kuntz wrote:
>
> > --- "Lawrence F. London, Jr." wrote:
> >
> > > Last Updated: Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 00:49 GMT 01:49 UK
> > > E-mail this to a friend Printable version
> > > Tall grasses set to power Europe
> > > By Jonathan Amos
> > > BBC News science reporter, Dublin
> >
> > How many times do I have to say this. The most energy-efficient
> > species of life on planet Earth is Homo Sapiens. I don't care
> > how you slice and dice it, photosynthesis is never more than 1%
> > to 2% efficient in capture and utilization of solar energy.
>
>
> > Human beings have achieved 20%, 25%, 30% efficiency using the
> > higher cost pure monocrystal photovoltaics, and 13%-14% using
> > the low cost Multi-Crystalline PV.
>
> Homo sapiens has not yet learned how to feed himself in a  
> nutritionally
> correct way, with food grown under optimal conditions and recycle his
> waste byproducts back to the Earth leaving the smallest possible
> footprint. He may have produced devices that are more efficient at
> converting light energy into electical energy than plants are at
> converting light to biomass but he can not do without those plants
> as they prouce food, shelter, clothing and much more. All human waste
> should be converted to biogas, plantfood and food for soil-dwelling,
> soil-building, plant-nourishing lifeforms. Each home could recycle all
> its biological waste in a "Living Machine" system that could produce
> flammable gas for heating and cooking (and heating the greenhouse in
> cold weather), humus to increase soil tilth and compost to feed plants
> growing in one component of the "Machine", which could, themselves, be
> recycled back through this system or composted externally to feed food
> crops and the permaculture landscape surrounding the energy-efficient
> dwelling (exterior & interior walls built of heavy concrete block
> surrounding a 12-16" core of AAC block [Aercon or Hebel], concrete
> floors). Rainwater would be collected off the roof, yard and paved
> surfaces and stored for use in the "Machine" and in the landscape.
>
> _That's_ efficiency.
>
> Use sewage to grow biomass crops in a constructed wetland. Harvest and
> convert the plant biomass to biogas and feed the compost back to the
> system and to food-producing gardens. Harvest aquatic animals and  
> weeds
> from the wetland to feed livestock which in turn produce manure to
> apply to gardens which produce food for people who produce manure to
> feed the wetland and so on ........
>
> Grow Miscanthus in sewage (human, kitchen and garden, and livestock
> waste), irrigate with rainwater. Harvest the crop and dry in in a  
> solar
> kiln. Get your exercise on a treadmill that generates electricity and
> powers a flywheel that turns a biomass compactor to compress the  
> dried,
> chopped Miscanthus leaves and stems into bricks to be used as fuel  
> in a
> super-efficient, clean burning wood-fired boiler (HS Tarm [Denmark] is
> the best) plumbed to a hot water radiator home and greenhouse heating
> system. Grow vegetables, fruit, herbs, livestock and fish year- 
> round in
> a greenhouse that is connected to your "Living Machine" used for waste
> recycling.
>
> Waste not, want not.
>
>
>
> > There's no plant nowhere, not on steroids, not GMO, not nothing,
> > that can come within one-sixth as good as human beings on its
> > best day.
>
> See above.
>
>
> > We don't need expanded human footprint to waste land in
> > inefficient energy production. We don't want net-zero CO2, but a
> > drawdown in CO2 by smartening up and forgetting about every kind
> > of carbon fuel. Burning carbon in any form whatsoever is not
> > smart,
>
> Yes we do and ASAP.
>
> LL
>
>
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Best Regards,

 William Genest

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