"All our seed in one basket?" There are apparently 1400 seed banks worldwide, this one just got to the 500,000 varieties and hope to reach 1,000,000 varieties in the next 10 years. (They believe that if they ever got to 1,500,000 they'd have almost all of the worlds plants covered.
Just a note, that while there are 1400 in the world, most are "regional" and not intended to replace all species. There have been three destroyed in recent history, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Philippines. Thom McMahon, SET Firetech, Inc. 2560 Copper Ridge Dr P.O. Box 882136 Steamboat Springs, CO 80488 Tel: 970-879-7952 Fax: 970-879-7926 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of å... .... Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 6:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Svalbard Global seed vault it is wise to not put all our seeds in one basket, in case Mr. Fire comes to town? put some corn in the left side of the room, and the rest of the corn in the right side. put a wall in the center of the room; no door... access to each is from the corridor. place in relatively tight, small, non-combustible shoe boxes. this is *kinda like* the approach one might use in the previous thread about hanging/drying tobacco...and how to keep it safe(r) from fire. One could sprinkler the hanging tobacco more effectively, if it were compartmented more finely than a single, open-space. Probably, with the tobacco, there would be no deeper levels where possibly additional vaults and rooms with valuable agricultural assets could be damaged by accumulating water. scot deal excelsior fire _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
