I see an economic diasater coming...

[the_big_m_in_ok]

2 books on compost?
compost is too much trouble, we just haul the organics to the garden and heave.
every scrap of kitchen waste.
fritznien

Excellent, actually.  When my Dad was alive he took his scraps to the compost heap and then, when they were ripe enough, he threw them on the garden and raked them into the soil.

--Lee

[triffid]

As I am always searching for strange and wonderful ideas on the internet.I ran across somebodys article on a super beefed up compost pile.He was talking about drawing heat from it for the dead of winter.Putting copper coils in the middle of the heap.Of course the idea was not to draw so much heat you stop the process.And to super insulate the pile to retain the heat.Now the two books tell me it can heat up to 158 degrees F and no more without killing the bacteria creating the heat.The books also tell me that zeolite,clay and humus maintain a natural neg charge to attract pos charged odor molecules.So a compost pile has charged particles in it???.triffid

[triffid]

Also gravity is used to turn the compost in one design for a compost bin.
I always like it if gravity is used in a device.

[triffid]

Shelves are used to hold the compost until it reaches a certain stage of ripeness then removed to tumble it further down into the bin with no need to turn it as a result.triffid

[triffid]

I usually have to look at a planetary body to see gravity being used to do work of some kind.Jupiter and io gravity creates heat as a result of flexing ios crust.Earth and moon gravity pushes the moon further away from the earth with the help of tidal action.triffid