Comments on: From Swamp to Gas Pump – Cattails Take on New Role http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/ Blue Planet Green Living - Earth Wise. Money Smart. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Srilekha YAdav http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-58509 Srilekha YAdav Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:18:22 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-58509 While Typha latifolia grows all over, including in rural areas, it is not advisable to eat as it derives from polluted water as it is used as a bioremediatior, it absorbs pollutants. It is also used for thatching roofs, making children toys such as bows and dolls during the Home Dance, and also used as cap in the dramas. Because of the extensive Typha growth irrigation canals are blocked and the local population has difficulty accessing the river, fishing has become impossible, and health problems arise from still water. In the last few years possibilities have been evaluated to remove the Typha in order to utilise it for charcoal production. Mechanical removal of Typha is costly and is not a sustainable option unless the cost of removal can partly be recovered by selling (energy) products While Typha latifolia grows all over, including in rural areas, it is not advisable to eat as it derives from polluted water as it is used as a bioremediatior, it absorbs pollutants. It is also used for thatching roofs, making children toys such as bows and dolls during the Home Dance, and also used as cap in the dramas. Because of the extensive Typha growth irrigation canals are blocked and the local population has difficulty accessing the river, fishing has become impossible, and health problems arise from still water. In the last few years possibilities have been evaluated to remove the Typha in order to utilise it for charcoal production. Mechanical removal of Typha is costly and is not a sustainable option unless the cost of removal can partly be recovered by selling (energy) products

]]> By: Jim galloway http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-39960 Jim galloway Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:25:53 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-39960 This could save the Everglades from nutrient pollution! This could save the Everglades from nutrient pollution!

]]> By: Julia Wasson http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-19580 Julia Wasson Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:03:59 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-19580 Hi Ken. Thanks for your comment. You raise some interesting issues. Have you considered contacting Dr. Blume or his colleagues at the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture? They could certainly answer your questions or tell you where to find the answers — assuming anyone has done that research. Julia Hi Ken.
Thanks for your comment. You raise some interesting issues. Have you considered contacting Dr. Blume or his colleagues at the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture? They could certainly answer your questions or tell you where to find the answers — assuming anyone has done that research.
Julia

]]> By: Ken Richardson http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-19295 Ken Richardson Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:49:19 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-19295 It states that they can be used for secondary sludge, would it be possible for it to tackle the whole issue? I'm sure there are pathogens in the secondary, the same as in the solids. I have heard of some setups on toilets that "whip" up the solids breaking them down into sludge for easier break down. I wonder if this was done with solid breakdown like that, if it would be something the cattails could handle. I wonder what it would take for a enclosed area that could deal with this. I'm sure methane gas would be an issue too. It states that they can be used for secondary sludge, would it be possible for it to tackle the whole issue? I’m sure there are pathogens in the secondary, the same as in the solids. I have heard of some setups on toilets that “whip” up the solids breaking them down into sludge for easier break down. I wonder if this was done with solid breakdown like that, if it would be something the cattails could handle. I wonder what it would take for a enclosed area that could deal with this. I’m sure methane gas would be an issue too.

]]> By: Caryn Green, Contributing Writer : Blue Planet Green Living http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-4633 Caryn Green, Contributing Writer : Blue Planet Green Living Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:48:59 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-4633 [...] From Swamp to Gas Pump: Cattails Take on New Role [...] [...] From Swamp to Gas Pump: Cattails Take on New Role [...]

]]> By: Stephen Klaber http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-2940 Stephen Klaber Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:38:54 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-2940 Making cattails into fuel is the only way to control them in the long run. Their renewability is terrifying. Cattails, and other aquatic weeds, are a mainspring of the process of desertification. Most of America's cattail sloughs should be lakes. The cattails in the Lake Chad basin are what's expanding the Sahara. Making this worldwide problem into the enormous renewable resource it should be is a huge part of the solution. Please try your techniques with other aquatic weeds like phragmites and papyrus reeds, water hyacinth, lettuce and fern. Where I'm working with this, charcoal is the fuel the economy is ready to absorb so charcoal is what we will make at first. We'll want to move on from there because charcoal has health problems attached. When time and money permits, we're going to investigate fitness for human consumption with our cattails. It isn't simple, because Africa really does have lost mines from 5000 years ago or more. There is enough cattail on the African continent to feed everyone there, if all of it were fit for human consumption. As it is, it is a dessication machine, a breeding grounds for pests, and a cause of flooding. Thanks for helping make this problem into a resource. Making cattails into fuel is the only way to control them in the long run. Their renewability is terrifying. Cattails, and other aquatic weeds, are a mainspring of the process of desertification. Most of America’s cattail sloughs should be lakes. The cattails in the Lake Chad basin are what’s expanding the Sahara. Making this worldwide problem into the enormous renewable resource it should be is a huge part of the solution. Please try your techniques with other aquatic weeds like phragmites and papyrus reeds, water hyacinth, lettuce and fern. Where I’m working with this, charcoal is the fuel the economy is ready to absorb so charcoal is what we will make at first. We’ll want to move on from there because charcoal has health problems attached. When time and money permits, we’re going to investigate fitness for human consumption with our cattails. It isn’t simple, because Africa really does have lost mines from 5000 years ago or more. There is enough cattail on the African continent to feed everyone there, if all of it were fit for human consumption. As it is, it is a dessication machine, a breeding grounds for pests, and a cause of flooding.

Thanks for helping make this problem into a resource.

]]> By: My 5: David Blume, Executive Director, International Institute for Ecological Agriculture : Blue Planet Green Living http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-2911 My 5: David Blume, Executive Director, International Institute for Ecological Agriculture : Blue Planet Green Living Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:43:30 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-2911 [...] From Swamp to Gas Pump – Cattails Take on New Role Share and Save: [...] [...] From Swamp to Gas Pump – Cattails Take on New Role Share and Save: [...]

]]> By: Caryn Green http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-2323 Caryn Green Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:37:53 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-2323 Hi El, Thank you for being one of the first on the scene to read and comment! -c Hi El,
Thank you for being one of the first on the scene to read and comment!

-c

]]> By: Caryn Green http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-2322 Caryn Green Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:33:47 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-2322 Anne, Your positive feedback is very much appreciated. I'm overdue for a visit to the Museum of Science & Industry, I would like to check out the exhibit. Anne,
Your positive feedback is very much appreciated. I’m overdue for a visit to the Museum of Science & Industry, I would like to check out the exhibit.

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]]> By: Anne Russell http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-2286 Anne Russell Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:34:15 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-2286 Amazing only goes so far. . . this piece is priceless! How can we have come so far and been moving backward the whole time? The Model-T ran on bio-fuel? We just saw one in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago a few weeks ago, but I don't remember that information being in the display. (I'm pretty blind without my glasses, so I may be mistaken.) Thanks again BPGL, you keep "discovering" wonderful information that I probably never would have noticed without you. Great job! Keep it up! Amazing only goes so far. . . this piece is priceless!

How can we have come so far and been moving backward the whole time?

The Model-T ran on bio-fuel? We just saw one in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago a few weeks ago, but I don’t remember that information being in the display. (I’m pretty blind without my glasses, so I may be mistaken.)

Thanks again BPGL, you keep “discovering” wonderful information that I probably never would have noticed without you. Great job! Keep it up!

]]> By: theeharv at 08/26/09 09:19:02 | Toyota Prius http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-2283 theeharv at 08/26/09 09:19:02 | Toyota Prius Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:21:53 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-2283 [...] Cattails produce clean green fuel! Kewl!http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/ Posted on Wed 26 Aug 21:19 retweet 0 votes RT @theeharv: Cattails produce clean green fuel! [...] [...] Cattails produce clean green fuel! Kewl!http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/ Posted on Wed 26 Aug 21:19 retweet 0 votes RT @theeharv: Cattails produce clean green fuel! [...]

]]> By: ELLEN BALESTRA http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-2276 ELLEN BALESTRA Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:48:06 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-2276 I AM VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE ARTICLE.I WAS UNAWARE OF THE HISTORY OF THE CATTAIL AND IT'S POTENTIAL OF BEING A MUCH NEEDED RESOURCE OF ENERGY.I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY LOOKED LOVELY IN A VASE! THE PHOTOGAPHS THAT ACCOMPANY THE ARTICLE ARE SUITABLE FOR FRAMING!GREAT WORK CUZ I AM VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE ARTICLE.I WAS UNAWARE OF THE HISTORY OF THE CATTAIL AND IT’S POTENTIAL OF BEING A MUCH NEEDED RESOURCE OF ENERGY.I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY LOOKED LOVELY IN A VASE! THE PHOTOGAPHS THAT ACCOMPANY THE ARTICLE ARE SUITABLE FOR FRAMING!GREAT WORK CUZ

]]> By: Caryn Green, Contributing Writer : Blue Planet Green Living http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/26/from-swamp-to-gas-pump-cattails-take-on-new-role/comment-page-1/#comment-2269 Caryn Green, Contributing Writer : Blue Planet Green Living Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:52:32 +0000 http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/?p=8180#comment-2269 [...] From Swamp to Gas Pump: Cattails Take on New Role Share and Save: [...] [...] From Swamp to Gas Pump: Cattails Take on New Role Share and Save: [...]

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