This pile was three piles until I turned them and combined them. It gets watered every day, so I knew I had a good burn going inside the pile. I felt a big blast of heat on my face and a I saw a big puff of steam released when I turned it and opened up the middle. I used to think I wanted this kind of high energy action. But now, I'm thinking that I should be able to draw off that energy and somehow translate that into greening my garden.
It may sound silly, but the thought of compost reaction always reminds me of the physicists building the first atomic reaction pile. I believe that was done under the stadium of a university in Chicago. That was when atomic critical mass was achieved for the first time. They knew they had it right because the result was heat in the core. The aim was to harness atomic energy to produce power. A large amount of energy is generated in a pile of dead garden refuse and it is just laying there. It would be something to draw that power off and apply it to husbandry for results that seem as miraculous as the power of atomic energy.
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