Ethan Au Green via David Luis Leal Cortez "[New Energy Economy founder Mariel Nanasi] juxtaposed in her talk images from a post-wildfire excursion to the Cochiti Canyon after the Los Conchas wildfire of 2011. The fire caused 300 foot flames and burned so hot (a rate of 1 acre per second), forming a pyrocumulonimbus cloud which pushed air down, like putting a lid on boiling water, cascading down the canyon, making the air hotter than 2000 degrees. It was so hot trees didn’t burn but were actually baked in place. This is a phenomenon that is almost never seen. Another occurrence never seen here before was hydrophobic soil, caused by such intense heat — the first foot and a half of soil became glasslike, resulting in horrible floods. All the microorganisms in the soil are gone, and there will not be a forest there for 200 years. Nanasi described places where literally nothing lives, reminding her of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic book The Road." livetaos/2013/06/renewable-taos-energy-report-iii-activist-dna/
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 03:06:22 +0000
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