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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Beetle Kill and Biochar-- Fwd: USDA Invests in Research to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into Renewable Energy
  • Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 18:11:52 -0000

Lawrence you know what I think about "biochar". The name is a very good name to sell a product that is quite bad for the planet.
Want to keep the planet cool? Then go for living trees and shrubs and all sorts of plants. You want to do something good for the soil then let residues rot in situ. That is food for living organisms. Bio-char is a dead substance whatever the name.
John

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence London" <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Beetle Kill and Biochar-- Fwd: USDA Invests in Research to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into Renewable Energy


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Amy Little <amylittle@hvc.rr.com> wrote:

Though not stated clearly... Cool Planet Energy Systems is BIOCHAR
oriented
company.....

From: "USDA Office of Communications" <usda@public.govdelivery.com>
To: jeffs@ncat.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 1:04:01 PM
Subject: USDA Invests in Research to Convert Beetle-Killed Trees into
Renewable Energy



That could be a lot of trees across the country utilizing losses from ash
dieback, pine beetle and other sources. I remember the years when pine
beetle devastated
quite a large number of southern yellow pines and possibly other varieties.
If the harvesting is done on tree farms, state and national parks lands,
federal land,
private sector tracts growing timber for paper or lumber products then you
might have a lot of material to convert to biochar. The main issue is
getting the trees harvested and
transported to biochar production sites; who is going to pay for and do
this?

Lawrence London
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
http://www.avantgeared.com
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