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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: Biochar
  • Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:01:23 -0500

On 11/14/2011 5:31 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

They don't yet know how it works? But they are already telling everybody how
to make it? Burning the planet to cool it?
If it were not for the very name which comes under the heading of
"new-speak" in Brave New World more people might wonder if it worked at all
as do I. Bio means life and char means coal and freedom is slavery and war
is peace.

Its all about using an industrial (probably wasteful and polluting processes) byproduct to create another product to market for high dollar.

It does not make any sense to char biomass to make charcoal that then must be pulverized and field spread (often using fossil fuel) when all that needs to be done is to allow weeds to control weeds, crimp or roll them to make a semi living mulch that controls weeds, adds seeds and organic matter to soil to increase OM and eventually humus while significantly building soil quality and productive capacity.

Thumbs up for notill agriculture (and minimum till).

LL




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