Double Food Production and Carbon Sequestration

 

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/walnuts.htm

 

Since then, we have found that the sea minerals used on this walnut tree also facilitate a similar increase in the size and abundance of oranges and plums on trees which have been supplemented with these minerals. The plum tree in my front yard is my current favorite example of this increase:

 

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/plums.htm

 

Here are some pictures of oranges given these minerals:

 

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/oranges.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/citrus.htm

 

It appears that these production increases take two to four years to fully manifest in perennial plants and require the replanting of seeds grown using these minerals for annuals. So far, we only have one year results on annual plants from a very few university studies. These studies were done using a specific producer's product but other similar products including the same minerals have shown similar results. You can read about these studies conducted on grains and annual row crops at:

 

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Sea-CropTests2007.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Sea-CropTests2008.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Sea-CropResults.htm

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/Sea-Crop_MicroTom.htm

 

Keep in mind that the four links above all represent a single year's results and do not show the results we would expect from multi year application to perennials or to annuals from seeds grown using these minerals. They also don't adequately describe what happens in the soil when these minerals are applied. One study suggests that total fungal biomass doubles in three weeks after application. The exact numbers are reported at:

 

http://www.sea-crop.com/index.html

 

Anecdotal reports also suggest that cattle will graze the sea mineral treated areas before touching the untreated areas in an undivided field:

 

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/cows01.htm

 

A series of studies done on a quarter million broiler chickens in Holland, that were directly given these minerals, suggest that the chickens gained more weight in a shorter period of time while eating less food. These results are described at:

 

http://www.sea-crop.com/research.html

 

Obviously, all of these results suggest that it may be possible to dramatically increase carbon sequestration using these minerals in agriculture. Furthermore, the savings in reduced fertilizer use will easily cover the costs of the minerals plus their application.

 

I wish to make it clear that I am not promoting the Sea-Crop product. It is my preference that everyone learn to extract these minerals for themselves using the following method:

 

The Wet Method consists of taking sea water or whole sea salt dissolved in water and raising its pH to 10.78 using lye (also known as caustic soda or sodium hydroxide) to precipitate out these beneficial minerals. The precipitate contains these minerals in a more concentrated form with reduced salt. You can read a thorough description of the Wet Method at:

 

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/ormus2.htm

 

Other simple methods can concentrate these same minerals from rock sources. Here is a story about the application of these minerals from rock sources to onions:

 

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/greenonions.htm

 

This mineral precipitate is typically applied at the rate of one to three gallons per acre (ten to thirty one liters per hectare). It is usually applied just once a year for most row crops but will be after each harvest for grains and other crops which get multiple cuttings per year.

 

I think the most important consideration is that anyone with access to wood ash (to make lye) and sea water (or rocks) can extract these minerals for their own use. Thus they are ideal for increasing carbon sequestration (and reducing hunger) in third world countries.

 

I would like a bit of help in figuring out how much these minerals might increase carbon sequestration, if applied to agricultural lands, and how much more would need to be applied to non agricultural land to begin sequestering more carbon than is being put into the atmosphere each year by our current petro economy. I have written a speculative article on this topic at:

 

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/moregreen.htm