Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Marty, if mankind stopped digging coal for just ten minutes that would help 
more than all the people interested in making charcoal together for all the 
rest of their lives.
By letting timber rot in the ground you increase the amount of life/ 
biomass. By making charcoal you increase death and our species is much too 
good at that already.
john


> Liz
>
> I don't know what exactly goes into the atmosphere. I'm sure that a
> lot of it it water from those fresh chips. There are oils that could
> be seen burning as they came out of the chamber. They add to the
> heating of my house. As John says a weight comparison is in order.
> I'll dry out a batch and see. Even if it is not totally efficient i'm
> sequestering more carbon and keeping it locked up for a much longer
> time through pyrolysis than it i put the chips in the soil and let
> them rot.
>
> Marty
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Liz wrote:
>
> > I was wondering this myself. In most of the videos I've seen about
> > making charcoal, it sure looks like an awful lot of white smoke is
> > going up into the atmosphere. Marty, I see that you're using an
> > oxygen-reduced burn, which should release less CO2, but clearly
> > it's not a zero-emissions situation. Are you certain that most of
> > the CO2 in the wood isn't just floating away?
> >
> > Liz
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tradingpost"
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> > To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Making Biochar in my New Char Chamber
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