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Keep up the good work. Your efforts are very interesting.

You may want to invest in a metal trash can. Once the fire is going,
throw in the small stuff, and put the lid on the trash can.

Tropical rain forests have laterite soils, not clay. Water absorbs CO2
from the atmosphere, and becomes carbonic acid (H2CO3). The carbonic
acid, in turn, disolves metals in the soil, leaving a soil rich in iron
and aluminum. The soil is usually very porous and will not hold
nutrients (being a rain forest, water retention is not a concern).
The classic example is from a book called "The Ugly America". IIRC it
concerned a tractor salesman in the 1960s, who was spreading the word
about the "Green Revolution" in farming. He plowed a rice paddy as a
demonstration, somewhere in South East Asia. When he finished, the rice
paddy disappeared, because he had destroyed the lining of the paddy
(organic or clay, I don't know), and the water went down the laterite
like water down a drain.

Keep us up dated.
--
- Billy

Mad dog Republicans to the right. Democratic spider webs to the left. True conservatives, and liberals not to be found anywhere in the phantasmagoria
of the American political landscape.

America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash.
It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the
greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks
and the portfolios of the uber-rich.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/.../michael-moore
/michael-moore-says-400-americans-have-more-wealth-/