Monday, November 12, 2007

Use of English

If 'mastery' is the dominance of a particular skill, 'biomastery' is, for me, the successful outcome of 'biomassing' - the amassing of sufficient biomass, or carbon accrual (sequestration), in a low-energy intensity system so that the reversal of past carbon extraction is achieved by cumulative net annual accrual via the carbon balance within the farm limits. There is no point in expending vast amounts of fossil fuel to achieve this outcome. The objective is to achieve a positive annual balance as soon as possible in our annual ledger. The earlier we do it, the more successful we have been in matching our accrual strategy with our expenditures.

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