I've got an idea about the crop food, that consist in this sentence scheme:
produce renevable energy -----> carbon dioxide+NOx+SOx and so on ----> mixed ashes with other nutrient derived solid substance after fermentation ---->>>> good quality crop food. Bye Ezio > Quite right Doug. > > Best wishes > > Keith > > > >Organically grown crops tend to have their nitrogen in complete proteins. > >Plants grown with large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer tend to have a > >certain content of free amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) > >in the plant sap which the plant-eating (juice sucking) insects find very > >convenient. It saves them considerable energy which they would otherwise > >have to use to chew leaves etc. and digest proteins. > > > >Doug Woodard > >St. Catahrines, Ontario, Canada > > > > > >On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Keith Addison wrote: > > > >[snip] > > > > > Anyway, when chemists look at plants and/or soil and start talking > > > about nitrogen, beware!!! For a start, nitrogen may be a plant > > > nutrient, but it isn't a people nutrient. Do you know how they > > > measure protein content in crops? They don't, they measure the > > > nitrogen content instead and multiply by, by what, 6.14, IIRC, the > > > ratio of N in protein, and, hey, that's the protein content. Only it > > > turns out that the more N in the form of NPK chemical "fertiliser" > > > was used to grow the crop (or maybe just pump it up and paint it > > > green) the more likely it is that a lot of the alleged protein > > > content will be nitrates and nitrites and other semi-synthesised > > > stuff that's not only not exactly nutritious it can be downright > > > toxic. The N in your compost, however, is different: it doesn't > > > deplete the soil O/M, it doesn't wreck the soil pH, nor the soil > > > life, it doesn't make dead pools in the Gulf of Mexico or anything > > > like that, it just steadily becomes available to the roots as the > > > plants need it, and, along with all the other effects of your compost > > > - primarily biological effects - it helps the plants build real > > > protein. But the difference will not only not be apparent to said > > > chemist, he'll probably deny it exists, thus flying in the face of a > > > large amount of scientific evidence, and a vast amount of other > > > evidence. Of course there are chemists and chemists, just the same as > > > there are fertilisers and fertilisers. > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > ____________________________________________________________ Libero Flat, sempre a 4 Mega a 19,95 euro al mese! Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
