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─ [16] Fidonet: SUST_AGRICULTURE (1:352/111) ───────────────────────── SUST_AG ─
Msg : 12 of 41
From : Lawrence London 1:151/502 Sun 30 Jan 94 23:35
To : Cissy Bowman
Subj : Greenhouse heating
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* Forwarded from "homepowr"
* Originally by Scott Parks
* Originally to All
* Originally dated 28 Jan 1994, 15:11
Newsgroups: sci.energy
From: THROOPG@ICARUS.SOM.CLARKSON.EDU (Gary Throop)
@Message-Id: <9401261557.AA08041@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com>
Organization: School of Management
Subject: Re: Greenhouse heating
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 10:53:43 EDT
There's a woman out on Martha's Vineyard who is grossing $100,000/A
with a greenhouse heated by 100 chickens. She figures 1 BTU/lb, I
believe. It's so warm that the vents are open in sub-zero weather.
The advantages of the chickens are cost (much cheaper than fossil
fuel), "free" food (meat and eggs), free manure for the greenhouse,
and -- this is the big plus -- free CO2 and ammonia, which get pumped
into the soil under the greenhouse. The ammonia is transformed into
nitrogenous fertilizer by soil bacteria and the CO2 makes the
atmosphere so rich that the plants grow faster inside in the winter
than they do outside in the summer.
This according to a New York Times article of a year or so ago. I
have yet to get down to see it myself, but I plan to.
Anybody know this lady?
Gary
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Gary M. Throop THROOPG@icarus.som.clarkson.edu
Clarkson University 315-268-3814
Department of Management FAX: 315-268-3810
Box 5790
Potsdam, NY 13699
Re: Greenhouse heating i
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