Aquaponic Algae or Spirulina
lloyd kinder (lkindr@hotmail.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:46:30 PDT
Hi, esp. to Paula and other Aquaponic peoples. I heard a tape lately
from the pyramic power guy, Patrick Flanagan, which said that algae can
feed more people and animals per acre than most any other food and it's
very nutritious. Dr. Richard Schulze, the herbal doctor, calls it a
superfood. Spirulina is an algae, as is chlorella, etc. I'd like to know
if anyone has tried growing edible algae like these aquaponically. Would
the algae use up all of the oxygen in the water and make fish suffocate?
Or could the algae grow in place of other plants in an aquaponic system?
The plants are normally watered [automatically] every ten or twenty
minutes, aren't they? Would the algae be able to go that long without
water? Or could they retain some of their water supply? And would the
algae be able to filter out 98% of the fish wastes to purify the water
for the fish the way other plants do in aquaponics? We "all" know how
overpriced spirulina and chlorella is. If such foods are going to feed
the world's people and animals, the price needs to come way down. It
looks like CSA's and community gardens, etc. could grow things
aquaponically and help lower prices on organic foods and herbs. And
surely algae could be grown that way too, somehow. Many of us know of
the possible economic and even survival problems that are a real threat,
not only from the y2k "time-bomb" but also environmental, geological,
astronomical and political threats [from terrorists as well as fanatical
cults in and out of gov'ts]. It seems to me that aquaponics should be
tried in earnest by anyone who lives in an urban area, especially, but
by anyone who wants to have greater security. The main glitch I see with
aquaponics is the need for power to pump water frequently. Does anyone
have ideas or experience re how to pump water about 1000 gallons every
15 minutes with little or no electricity? I guess wind power would be
unreliable and solar would be too costly for startup. Brown's gas, which
is monatomic hydrogen, derived from water, using a small[?] amount of
electricity, is one source of fuel I can think of. Info on how to get
the Brown's gas report is available at www.lauralee.com, I believe, thru
the radio book store. I'd like to hear other ideas from anyone. Aloha.
Lloyd
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