But I thought that ADM was shooting for one variety of seed that did everything and that they controlled.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Thom McMahon <[email protected]> wrote: > "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) > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Bates Technical College Tacoma, WA Member: SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC _______________________________________________ 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)
