Australian scientists have discovered that vegetables
planted in rock dust grow to an extraordinary size. The
dust, a byproduct obtained from rock quarries, rejuvenates
tired soil. By mixing the rock dust with compost,
researchers have been able to produce football-sized
cabbages, coconut-sized onions, and plum-sized strawberries.
Best of all, the rock dust absorbs the CO2 that is emitted
from car exhausts. Moira Thomson says we could "cover the
Earth with rock dust" and solve many of our environmental
problems.
Paul Kelbie writes in the Independent that Moira and Cameron
Thomson spread rock dust on 6 acres of land where erosion
was so severe that nothing had grown there for 50 years. The
dust mimics the natural glacial cycles of the Earth, which
fertilize the ground with minerals, eliminating the need for
artificial fertilizer. Since the last ice age 3 million
years ago, there have been 25 glaciations, each of which
lasted about 90,000 years. Right now we're in a period
between ice ages, which is why we need to spread fertilizer
on agricultural land. But rock dust does the job even better
by putting essential minerals back into the Earth.
How does this fight climate change? The calcium and
magnesium in the dust converts the carbon in the air from
greenhouse gases into carbonates. Also, plants grown in rock
dust need much less water. NASA is so impressed with the
idea that they plan to use it rock dust to grow crops on
other planets.
Rock dust could also eliminate the need to take a daily
multivitamin pill. One reason we're urged to take vitamins
is because plants no longer contain sufficient vitamins and
minerals, and the main reason for this is the poor quality
of the soil they're grown in.
Nobody used rocks like the
Egyptians,
who were able to carve them into building blocks for their
gigantic pyramids. According to William Henry, the pyramids
were also "resurrection "machines," and the secrets of
interstellar travel are revealed by the "wormhole dance,"
which can be seen in the DVD that comes with this
extraordinary book!
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