« The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a loyal servant.
We have created a society which honours the servant, but has forgotten the gift »

Albert Einstein

It is important to know and choose the Biodynamics because this is:

• the choice of those who love our children and so the Earth they will leave them
• the choice of those who are aware of belonging to a whole cosmic vital entity and so of being also jointly responsible for it
• the choice of those who want to put ideals, morality and fraternity into practice
• the choice of those who listen to the three natural Kingdoms calling for their loving care
• the choice of those who turn the socialization capacity into the aim of their life
• the choice of those who want the quality instead of the quantity and the collaboration instead of the competition
• the choice of those who demonstrate their skill with a high professional competence
• the choice of those who know the high qualitative level of the biodynamic method and would like to show its whole power in practice

At school we have learnt that "NOTHING IS CREATED and NOTHING IS DESTROYED, but EVERYTHING IS TRANSFORMED".

In fact the use of bacterial enzymatic products helps and accelerates the natural transformation process of an organic compound (that might be also stinking or putrescent) into a product free of bad smells, which helps (if used in the farm sector as fertilizer or enzymatic soil improver) to strengthen the plants roots, protecting them for 45 days against a total drought and so also against the possible lack of irrigations and of other several applications.

But let's try to illustrate briefly what the environmental biotechnologies are.

What we produce today with the modern methods we have at our disposal, thanks to the technology and to the applied research, is only a natural non-toxic non-harmful product, which can help us to accelerate the natural processes.

In fact in the past ( when we were few) the nature was responsible for these transformations and so we hadn't to do anything else, but wait the completion of the natural processes.

But later the world population increased with an exponential growth: now it amounts to over 6 billion people and it is quickly reaching the figure of 10 billion people (see population increase in China, India and Africa in general).

The population increase was followed by the production of chemicals like fertilizers etc. in order to compensate for the natural cycles of the soil exploitation.

But after using such chemicals for many years, we realized that their use and abuse didn't help use, but created on the contrary many problems not easy to solve.

Another problem caused by the population increase was the staggering increase of the water consumption, which is going to become more expensive than petrol. And this is really true, because all people are worried about the full tank cost, but nobody cares about the rationalization of the water consumption (no problem… it's always available, some say, but they are absolutely wrong).

Let's start to make some practical examples.

Both well water and river or sea water (that is all the water of the world taken both above and underneath the surface) contains 15 mg/liter of oxygen dissolved in it. The oxygen develops certain bacteria, whose function is to destroy the pollution.

So, tell me: why was the river Tiber clean at the time of the Roman Empire? Why did people go swimming in it? And why didn't any pollution rate exist? The answer is very easy: try to consider the number of people living in Rome at that time, who used to discharge (among other things) their natural waste to the “cloaca maxima', and compare it with the present inhabitants of Rome (the number has made tenfold).

The Tiber running through Rome is always the same and has approximately the same flow of that time. But someone might say that now there are all the industries discharging to the river and so this is the reason why it is now polluted, while it wasn't at that time. Unfortunately your reasoning (even excluding the problem of the industries) doesn't take the essential datum into consideration, that is to say that each inhabitant pollutes with a quantity of 60 g/BOD5 per day (BOD 5 is the Biological Oxygen Demand)

If we suppose to make a theoretical section of the Tiber, we will see that X square metres of water run through that section in a time corresponding to one second, one minute, one hour etc. We have told before that the water contains 15 mg/litre of oxygen dissolved in it. So, if we multiply this figure (15) by the square metres per hour running through our hypothetical section, we will see that the Tiber brings in Y kg of Oxygen, which once was sufficient to purify naturally the waste discharged to the 'cloaca maxima', but today IT ISN'T ANY MORE.

This example is very simple, but it was the first step to develop the whole purification theory about civil wastewater, which can't be discussed in detail on this occasion. But, should someone be interested in further information about it, we can recommend several scientific texts about this topic.

Someone might wonder about the connection between this summary about the BIOTECHNOLOGIES and the examples of the Tiber. The answer is very simple, because all purification plants make use of such principle to purify the wastewater, that is to say that they bring in oxygen in the water under several forms in order to obtain the active sludges responsible for the purification.

But, if you design a plant for 1000 people and later that village or district is inhabited by 1200 people, the polluting load will pass from 1000 x 60= 60000 grams to1200 x 60 = 72000 grams with a 20%-increase. Under these conditions the plant, even if well designed, will suffer a crisis being undersized. So, what's the solution? You can either build another plant or inoculate into the purifier the bacterial-enzymatic products (biotechnology-based action), which will enable the purifier to bear a higher polluting load.

There could be a lot of examples, but this is not a treatise on the biotechnologies, but only one example to illustrate the advantages you can have using bacterial-enzymatic products instead of other solutions.

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