[Digestion] Environmentalists Anti-AD Issues

[Anand Karve]

Dear Steven,
All living beings convert their food through a chain of biochemical
reactions into carbon  dioxide, water, and some other chemical
components. The energy that is released in the process is used by them
for their own metabolism. The penultimate link in this chain of
chemical reactions produces acetic acid. In the case of organisms
breathing oxygen, the acetic acid reacts with oxygen and gets
converted into carbon dioxide and water. Under anaerobic conditions,
the acetic acid is not oxidised and under these circumstances, the
methanogenic organisms convert the acetic acid into methane and carbon
dioxide. Nitrogen in the food is generally in the form of amines,
amino acids or proteins. These substances get converted into methane
plus carbon dioxide plus ammonia.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Steven Bolgiano <steven at planetfound.com> wrote:
> Wow. I like this group more and more.
> I'll submit one more time on this and then go back to begging the group to
> be spoon fed the science I need to achieve some sanity for my small piece of
> the planet. I am 60 years old, and this is me enjoying local water:
> http://www.planetfound.com/surfing
>
> My friends, neighbors, family and I became tired of watching the
> bureaucracy, the farmer, and the environmentalists bang each other over the
> heads like some old time silent film comedy. No solutions, only finger
> pointing, misinformation, with real information held hostage by red tape.
> We decided if our grandchildren have any chance of enjoying the magnificent
> waters surrounding our region, we better not wait on the system.
> Is it any wonder there are only 158 registered agricultural AD systems in
> the United States? And the 5 that are for poultry are mismatched for 99.9 %
> of the poultry farms.
>
> So with all the naivete of a village idiot we have decided as a community
> group we will take responsibility and struggle to learn what you folks seem
> to do so effortlessly. So far we are pursuing groupings of 6,250 gallon,
> solar heated bladders, ... batch loaded 5 times a year. We have a design, we
> have fabricators for the bladder tanks, gas bags and what may be a very
> revolutionary approach to solar heating water, ... also using pumps run from
> solar panels.
> That's the mechanical. But the science we need to get much better at
> understanding. And part of that is the original intent of this thread, which
> is to prepare for the resistance of those with their own agendas, to respond
> with scientific fact.
>
> Thanks so much for this list. I've learned more in a month here than in 6
> months plowing through journals on my own.
> If anyone of you gets to the Mid-Atlantic coast please be my guest ....we
> have wild horses on our islands, seafood galore, and wonderful waters
> everywhere. Hopefully it will stay that way.
>
> OK back to the science for me .... I want to know more about temperature
> fluctuations and the affect on free ammonias (and what is  free ammonia!).
>
> Thanks,
> Steven
>
>
>
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> Steven Bolgiano
> Executive Director
> Planet Foundation Ltd.
> 443.235.1344
>
>
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