Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
So it is in the following ways that a number of effects can occur that may or may not be of
benefit to your land, including:
• The electro-migratory transport of macro- and micro-nutrients away from soil
particles where they are held, to accumulation in pore-water.
• The transport of root exudates in a similar manner.
• The spreading of soil amendments, also.
Electrokinetic Processes in a DC Field
Source: Bill Perry based on
Wieczorek
While much is known about modern soil science, much more research is needed to show
the effect of these applied fields to soil. More study is needed to determine the effects
that occur under a wide range of soil conditions with respect to the wide variety of ores,
minerals, and other complex or crystalline compounds found in soils.
The advantage of using electricity for nutrient transport underground is that it can be very effective in
spreading nutrients throughout a region comprised of varied land and soil conditions. Over 100 years
ago, it was written that electroculture has been found to be a very effective method for inexpensively
Looking at the soil pyramid and seeing that soils vary primarily between sand and clay, it
makes sense that the performance of electro-osmosis, electro-kinesis, and electro-phoresis
will differ under the wide variety of soil conditions that are possible. Furthermore, since
the structure and components of most ground-based soils (compared to container-based
soils) are predominantly non-uniform, especially as the area of ground increases in size,
the electrochemical effects of these phenomena are not completely known in large scale
growing environments, and thus their behavior can only be estimated.
