permaculture

[Brent Neal <brentn@freeshell.org>]

On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:39, Vital Scherrer wrote:

> Hello,
> Discussing about carbon in mulches, I wonder whether the article  
> below has
> ever been published and reviewed in this forum; as I am new here I  
> would
> have thought it did. But as it is one of the most important issues,  
> it's
> certainly vital to bring it up (again?). I would appreciate it to get
> information about experiences and possibly alternative furnace  
> constructions
> and -methods to produce the low temperature charcoal, possibly  
> suppliers of
> furnaces or even of the charcoal.
> Cheerio
> Vital, Madeira, Portugal

Vital -

Here's a pdf that discusses a continuous processor for doing this  
kind of pyrolysis. This claims that the charcoal yield from this  
design is higher than other methods and that it is "cleaner" since it  
uses the methane byproduct from the pyrolysis for an energy source.


http://www.pronatura.org/projects/green_charcoal_en.pdf

B

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