CV's original concept of a partially glassified frit he called Thermopotash remains the way to go, imho ... fits in every way - it's a far superior product for the humid clime, it's the logical thing to do with the verdete resource, it will require far lower capex and have far lower opcost, it won't be nasty toxic difficult stuff to handle like the chloride
Only one disadvantage farmers have to choke down - you need to transport and apply more tonnage per unit of K applied to roots ... but there are so many advantages that make this worthwhile - you don't need to pay big bucks and then treight it from some other hemisphere, you don't need to apply it nearly as often, it won't kill your beneficial soil animalitos, it won't degrade delicate flavonoids in crops where taste counts, and it'll have all sorts of trace elements and minerals that the chloride never could
This business of calling the chloride 'conventional' is standing history on its head, in a way - greensand was used as soil amendment in England long before old Liebig came along and gave us the core of N-P-K understanding ... people knew its effects were similar to those of wood ashes, from which come the word 'potash' ... the process of turning the right rock into a frit with known slow-release qualities is not new either, it's well over half a century old [upthread somewhere i post links to sites that quote papers from the 1940s, smong others, search terms at the time started with 'fritted trace elements'] ... nothing new here, and nothing difficult either, you only need to grind the stuff right then cook it right, roll it around in a hot trommel, screen it for desired particle size, and ship it out ... mmm wait, better let it cool first, or at least warn the truck driver, lol ... but there is nothing scarey about the 'unconventional' thermofert imho, it's perfectly straight-forward and better in every way
A flash of good sense prevents me from making any shareprice predictions here ... yours seems reasonable, and i'm betting that way, however some of my previous guesses upthread didn't work out so well, lol ... i stand by all the other stuff - still shaking my head at how the market ran the stock on news of the 'Cambridge' process ... people liked it, paid up big for it, for a while ... but CV had the right idea in the first place, and yes does deserve credit for it |
