Re: [compost_tea] abbreviations?

From: Robert Norsen <bnbrew_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:23:19 -0800 (PST)

ACT Aerated Compost Tea A variable liquid containing what the brewer extracted from compost plus any nutrients or other added, some of the microbes increased by incubation in the "brewing process".
CACT Continuing Aerated Compost Tea ( a cycle where part of a brew is taken at intervals
           as like amounts of water and compost and nutrients are added to the brew. The idea is that the microbes of the brew will regenerate in numbers at a high rate since they are already active. The brew does not have to go thru a slow start from zero. Tests have shown this process to produce a fairly even level of microbe content from hour to hour, The main testing on a 500 g brewer took 25% of the volume per hour for as long as the test continued. The test continued for 12 hours and continued the following day without a break in the concept.
 
A 500 g brewer could, on this cycle produce, 3,000 gallons. From tests on smaller brewers it is expected that the same brewer could continue for probable 10 days without a break. Much of this is still unproven. with the advent of the microscope method of estimating performance, more large farm use of large brewers and a need for this kind of production, testing may be possible. This cycle would be ideal for feeding pivot irrigation where the CACT cycle could allow an operator to go from one pivot to another with never stopping to restart a brewer.
One operator per shift in an area could manage 3 to 5 brewers if within a moderate distance .
 
This cycle is expected to work equally well with any brewer.
 
CLA is a type of fat contained in many foods, meat and plant foods. It is reported to be rather low in grain fed beef and has been found higher in grass fed beef. Betsy's report indicated it was higher in grass fed where the grass had been treated with ACT. Apparently there needs to be additonal testing to verify the degee of change.
 
Some Medical reports have stated that the human body needs CLA to recover body fat to use for energy. The implicaton in the article ( Life Extension Foundation) is that the body can store fat without CLA but can't recover fat without CLA. Thus a fat body with low CLA would become "fuel starved" and need to eat. Obesity would be hard to prevent and harder to corredt if the diet is low in CLA.


Tony Leung <leung_anthony_p_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

Excuse my ignorance, but what do the following
abbreviations stand for? Thanks, Tony.

ACT = aerobic compost tea?
CACT
CLA



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