Hi! Hilary, I do not remember hearing that one, but it may be so. The use of a highly effective BD system is one way of clearing a number of highly polluted soil situation. There is a very interesting effect called "biological elemental transmutation". Some think RS observed and noted this. A French research, who's name I can't recall just now wrote about it in detail in about the late '89s. Hugh Lovel has written on it several times, possibly to this list, as has Hugh Sangster in Australia.
BEM is the situation where soil biota actually disassemble not only molecules, but also elements and construct new element from them. In Australia, this is used to remove spilt fuel and heavy metals from polluted soil on industrial sites. An example is the old Islington Railway Workshops in Adelaide. Here they removed the soil and stock piled it and they grew things like fava beans, which were turned in and the heap turned. Last report it was going well. Terry Farrel, Melbourne has been using his products (non BD, but still effective) to transmit salt. I understand that he has significant sales to another country, to allow the growing of food in badly salted soil. If you ask Hugh Lovel, I expect he would have a post on this. His experience is BD, while Terry is using parallel methods and still getting a like effect. The breakdown of a Radioactive element takes place in nature, so it could be assumed that a good health BD situation would aid the process. Gil
