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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar Making Chamber
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:33:48 -0700


Not to beat a dead horse, but no one has shown the end cost of trying to
sequester enough carbon by biochar to keep CO2 below 350ppm to beat global
warming. $100 trillion or $10 quadrillion?

Seriously there are several mainstream solutions far more doable such as
cutting out 95% of the feedlot operations, or cutting fossil fuel use by 75%.

As for compost being shortterm sequestration, that's fine with me. Because if
all agriculture did it we'd still be out of the woods and continuous
composting would keep us there. But what I'm doing and advocating is not
composting. I'm burying green matter in growing soil. That's better..

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/14/2011 at 12:40 AM richard green wrote:

>Ok your heating the house utilizing the escaping gas from the wood inside
>the chamber while at the same time making charcoal. A win-win situation
>because you had to heat your home anyways. I like the fact the charcoal
>was made out of smaller branches and such which normally would not be used
>in a fire place. It certainly Did look like it worked, I thought the holes
>were a tad bitt larger than needed. I am not convinced that bio-char
>increases crop production and have started my own tests to verify for
>myself. I understand the reasoning behind sequestering of the carbon in a
>stable form like charcoal. All organic matter when decomposing realeses
>CO2, as much as I like compost its only a short term sequester of carbon.
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>Rick
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>> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:26:01 -0600
>> From: martyk@allspecies.org
>> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: [Livingontheland] Biochar Making Chamber
>>
>> Just put a biochar making chamber video on youtube. Shows Theo Bunch, Art
>> Institute student, welding it and me making first batch of charcoal. High
>> excitement, for me at least.
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6a8TdyMIdA
>> Marty
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