“...it can make some pretty good firecrackers!!”
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Posted on 05/02/2022 4:27:06 AM PDT by GonzoII
“Go pee on the rhubarb!”Engineer Fabien Esculier has never forgotten his grandmother’s unconventional approach to gardening — in fact, it has inspired his career. Human urine may seem like a crude way of fertilising plants in the era of industrial agriculture, but as researchers look for ways to reduce reliance on chemicals and cut environmental pollution, some are growing increasingly interested in the potential of pee.
Plants need nutrients — nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium — and we ingest these through food, before “excreting them, mostly through urine”, said Esculier, who runs the OCAPI research programme in France looking at food systems and human waste management.
This presents an opportunity, scientists think.
Fertilisers using synthetic nitrogen, in use for around a century, have helped drive up yields and boost agricultural production to feed a growing human population.
But when they are used in large quantities, they make their way into river systems and other waterways, causing choking blooms of algae that can kill fish and other aquatic life....
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“Go pee on the rhubarb!”
In medieval times they used to have pee buckets to collect men’s urine. The urine would be allowed to rest until it had a high concentration of ammonia, which in turn was used to set vegitable based dyes (inexpensive and new technology
then). Medieval times were actually filled with vibrant color, much more like the technicolor movies pre-1960 than the later movies that show medieval colors of dull browns and grays. I guess we need to set up a separate system for the collection of urine. Maybe cities can finally do thier part. ;)
Now I know why rhubarb pie is so tart.
I can think of a whole lot of people I wouldn’t want contributing to the pee pool.....a whole lot.
Ha! Nope - that can be blamed on being skimpy with the brown sugar.
Eat bugs and pee on your plants. What an awful world is being forced on us.
...it can make some pretty good firecrackers!!
“...it can make some pretty good firecrackers!!”
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unless you are so poor you do not have a pot to pee in
Daddy rabbit: “This radish is kind of pithy.”
Junior rabbit: “Well it should be; I just got done pithing on it!”
Visualize world pees
Bad idea. Ever wonder why we see E. coli and other pathogens on lettuce and other green food crops? Water reclamation done poorly.
Tree farms for years have taken bio solids and applied it to the soils and municipalities here sell or sometimes gives it away to home gardeners. They always tell you NOT to use it on vegetable soils.
I don’t know about feeding the world but i pee around the flowers in my yard during the spring, summer and fall to keep the deer away. Works great.
LOL
http://richearthinstitute.org/
https://humanurehandbook.com/
Half or more of the population is taking prescription drugs so their excrements are no good for fertilizer.
Start passing out honey buckets like they do in china. Anyone on welfare is given the collection job.
That would be problematic. Not long ago they were saying we should drink urine and the other day I read about lab meat, a DIY kit called ouroboros (snake eating its tail). It’s a steak made from a swab of your cheek, they claim it’s not technically cannibalism...
Steak? More like hotdogs.
I don’t like rhubarb.
And I don’t like pee.
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