[Terrapreta] Successful charcoal burn

[Richard Haard]

That is an interesting perspective.  There is the debris pile at the  
nursery that is at least that size. Hmmm, farming or sequestering -  
not enough time for everything. This definitely would not have  
happened here  at 4CN without Larry's help and creativity.

My charcoal in agriculture file has 9 images from this latest burn.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rchaard/sets/72157594444994347/

In this set is an interesting closeup of the char showing filaments  
that appear to be intact vascular elements http://www.flickr.com/ 
photos/rchaard/458342446/in/set-72157594444994347/

and this
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/rchaard/458350089/in/ 
set-72157594444994347/

It was interesting to me that the charcoal showed a blue-green  
iridescent sheen that I was not able to capture with the camera.

It will be interesting to see how proximate analysis will compare  
these two burns.

rich

On Apr 14, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Tom Miles wrote:

> Can you make 11 more 500 lb batches and put them in the ground?  
> That would
> make 6000 lbs, or 3 tons,