Originally Posted By: Blast
After giving her the whole story she just shook her head and sighed, "We don't have these problems when you're at work."


That sounds eerily familiar. grin

Consider this: that blackened tuber isn't waste, it's biochar. The potato-left-in-the-microwave scenario has led some to speculate about giant microwave ovens zapping agricultural waste into carbon, enhancing soil fertility and sequestering atmospheric carbon.

So what we're really looking at is kitchen-sink geoengineering, a la Blast. cool