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Comment on Greater Dayton Fishing Association by Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:38:14 +0000

I would like to see fishing improved in the Dayton area. Keep me posted on what needs to be done when and where.

Scott

Comment on Greater Dayton Fishing Association by PANDSCORP

PANDSCORP — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:24:32 +0000

Right now we are collecting contact info from as many people as we can get, so please spread the word. Make sure I have an email address and/or a phone number. It would help to know what each persons interest/priorities are as well as how they feel they could best contribute.

Comment on Greater Dayton Fishing Association by williamj@ameritech.net

williamj@ameritech.net — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:29:13 +0000

Ken Carman, read Sunday’s paper and I am interested. What can I do.

William

Comment on Super-Structure Community by Lornkanaga

Lornkanaga — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:22:05 +0000

This sounds very much like a survival-type community, and I don’t mean that in a bad way — self-sufficiency is a good thing, whether on a small or large scale, and combining that with christian values is just a plus.

Have you read S. M. Stirling’s “Dies the Fire” series of books? Granted, it’s science fiction and many of the major characters are of some pagan religion or other although many characters are christian, it’s mostly about how people band together in small communities after a major worldwide disaster and how they live, love, and struggle to survive in the succeeding generations.

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Comment on River Nutrient Removal by PANDSCORP

PANDSCORP — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:27:09 +0000

Hmmm . . . I really like where you are going with this. I was at our local inner-city riverside park yesterday, and it grieved me to see the stormwater discharge openings spewing dark oily water into the river after a much needed brief rain. I have been focusing on the litter that comes out of these discharges because it is the easiest problem to fix. Still, the petrolium waste that comes off the streets has always been on my mind. I still think that growing and harvesting plants is the best way to remove nutrients, but I am going to give your idea some thought (and experimentation) as a means of capturing surface oil.
I have two new articles I will be writing soon. One on growing and harvesting plants, and the other on using river powered spiral pumps to remove surface pollutants.

Thanks for writing and sharing your thoughts. I look forward to hearing more from you (and others) on this topic.

Comment on River Nutrient Removal by Lornkanaga

Lornkanaga — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:01:31 +0000

Oh, I agree, a large comprehensive system would be required, but someone’s got to start experimenting at some point.

Are you familiar with the booms used to absorb/redirect oil in the Gulf oil spill? Some people are using human and animal hair stuffed into nylon stockings to absorb small amounts of the oil. The hair-stuffed stocking are strung together to make a boom.

I was thinking something similar could be made with biochar-stuffed stockings to line rivers, lakes, and ponds and that, once or twice a year, they would be replaced and the old biochar could be spread in gardens or even crop lands as a way to use those nutrients.

Just something I’ve been thinking about.

Comment on River Nutrient Removal by PANDSCORP

PANDSCORP — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:33:10 +0000

I am familiar with it for filtering small amounts such as what one would consume at home, but for filtering an entire river, a large comprehensive system would be required. You can’t just grow plants in the river, they have to be harvested. Otherwise, the nutrients simply return to the ecosystem. As I see it, you either have to filter the water through the watershed (and use it to water crops at the same time), or grow something useful and easy to harvest such as duckweed.

Comment on River Nutrient Removal by Lornkanaga

Lornkanaga — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:24:27 +0000

Have you looked into biochar? I’ve long thought it could be used as a filter for/absorber of excess fertilizer runoff that could be positioned along the shorelines of creeks, ponds, or lakes.

Biochar has many properties similar to charcoal, is a wonderful soil additive in that it helps hold nutrients and water in the soil, and helps sequester CO2.

Of course, before using it for this purpose, tests would have to be conducted to find out how much of the nitrogen runoff it can absorb and how often the biochar would have to be replaced for optimal performance.

Comment on Wind-Roof by Remortgage

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