permaculture

[Thomas Allen <thallen@nwlink.com>]

One can make charcoal in a pyrolizer while cooking food, heating water  
or similar uses. And one can use grass from the current growing season  
or tree prunings and such from last year to do it. That process  
sequesters current or year-old carbon pulled from the atmosphere and  
sequesters it in the soil. You don't have to use old-growth trees. How  
scalable is this? Won't work for industrial ag scale but then  
industrial scale ag isn't sustainable anyway so you've lost nothing.  
The pyrolizer-on-current-year-growth method seems like a win win to me.

--Tom


On Nov 16, 2011, at 3:33 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

> I like this but still think that charcoal burning is detrimental if  
> we want
> to stop climate change. We produce 20 times more CO2 while making  
> charcoal
> than we ever sequester whatever system we use. These days forest are  
> already
> disappearing to make charcoal and that is madness. Stopping burning  
> fossil
> fuels would be the only sure way combined with stopping  
> deforestation. If
> you want to sequester carbon then plant trees and shrubs, increase  
> biomass.
> (= living-mass)
> That is permaculture or not?
> john
>
> > http://jordforbindelse.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/biochar-is-part-of-a-local-solution/
> >
> > --
> > <http://jordforbindelse.wordpress.com/>
> > _______________________________________________
> > permaculture mailing list
> > permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subscribe, unsubscribe, change your user configuration or find out  
> > more
> > about this list here:
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
> > Garden Hand Tool Sourcelist and Biointensive Gardening Guide
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/gardening-hand-tools.faq
> > permaculture forums http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums
> > Market Farming Mailing List
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/marketfarming
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> permaculture mailing list
> permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subscribe, unsubscribe, change your user configuration or find out  
> more about this list here:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
> Garden Hand Tool Sourcelist and Biointensive Gardening Guide
> http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/documents/gardening-hand-tools.faq
> permaculture forums http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums
> Market Farming Mailing List
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/marketfarming