Alternative to Nitrate Fertilizer

Inexpensive nitrate fertilizers have overshadowed the research in other means of stimulating plant growth.  One such alternative explored was Electroculture.  Is this a Green Opportunity today?  Worth exploring? - Others seem to have thought so....

Start Materials...

• http://home.earthlink.net/~kernels/Diss4.html
• http://books.google.com/books/about/Inventors_project_book.html?id=K5QrAQAAMAAJ - Topic 99 and 100
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Negative_environmental_effects
• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981IJBm...25..309P
• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1918Natur.101...64V
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5314723
• http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Environment&Ecology/+Doc-Environment&Ecology-FoodMatters/StimulatingPlantGrowthWithElectricity&Magnetism&Sound.htm
• http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?38949-Electro-Culture--Increase-plant-growth-using-all-kinds-of-alternatives-
• http://dwechsler.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/experimenting-with-electroculture-part1/
• http://www.guelphorganicconf.ca/2011/01/electroculture-magnetoculture-new-ways-for-agriculture/
• http://www.google.com/patents?id=tJ8gAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=(plant+OR+crop+OR+agriculture)+(electroculture+OR+electro-culture)&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0Z1TT5jsJcf_ggetn_jtDQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=(plant%20OR%20crop%20OR%20agriculture)%20(electroculture%20OR%20electro-culture)&f=false 
• http://www.google.com/patents?id=8NUZAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=(plant+OR+crop+OR+agriculture)+(electroculture+OR+electro-culture)&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0Z1TT5jsJcf_ggetn_jtDQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=(plant%20OR%20crop%20OR%20agriculture)%20(electroculture%20OR%20electro-culture)&f=false 
• http://www.jstor.org/pss/2808576
• http://www.jmpee.org/JMPEE_PDFs/20-2_bl/JMPEE-Vol20-Pg65-Nelson.pdf
• http://www.google.com/patents?id=XdDWAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA18&dq=high+frequency+electrostatic+field+agriculture&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GqFTT-PtCKni0QGX98zvDQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=high%20frequency%20electrostatic%20field%20agriculture&f=false
• http://www.google.com/patents?id=ts0ZAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=high+frequency+electrostatic+field+agriculture&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GqFTT-PtCKni0QGX98zvDQ&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=high%20frequency%20electrostatic%20field%20agriculture&f=false
• Search String - (plant OR crop OR agriculture) (electroculture OR electro-culture)

Good Luck in your efforts to make this a better Earth!