Maximum Yield USA 2009 June | Page 12

LETTERS TO the editor Pure Water Green Alternatives I enjoyed reading Erik Biksa’s article, LEDs: Lighting for Hyper Space Crops or Just Hype? The way I see it, we need incremental stages of familiar comparable wattage LEDs to phase out or to build a complete replacement for HID lighting in a way that isn't so humbling to the hobby market. Surely this way in the long term, the market could reduce initial costs to early adapters, thus accelerating the market. I believe we need watt for watt replacements for HID lighting in the industrial green housing market to prove once and for all that proper LED diodes yield more than HID while generating less heat, therefore, justifying long term costs and adaptation. Charles Andrew Besso A Dedicated Reader USA December 2008 To the great people of Maximum Yield, During a move last month, I lost my December 2008 issue of Maximum Yield USA. I am enclosing $5 in hopes that I can replace it. I have a complete Aero Soil - Habanero Part One library of your publication and Hydroponic Growing Methods: feel lost with a missing issue. I Compared and Contrasted am currently working on the CPS: Continuous Production Systems project; great article by the way. As well, the rest of the articles in the magazines are great. I N D O O R G A R D E N I N G FREE VS STAY INFORMED, STAY CONNECTED Thanks Your Loyal Reader Wayne Affordable Landscapes Kent,WA. Biodynamics Claptrap The Biodynamics article on page 88 of February 09’ USA is unintelligible claptrap, just like biodynamics is claptrap. We need to make an effort to expose this nonsense for what it is. Maybe an article by a real agriculture expert could be published, addressing some of the garbage. The author of the article is described on page 10 as having an interest in bringing awareness to the injustice of municipal water fluoridation. Back in the 1950s, nutcases c