[Terrapreta] agri-char market price.

[bhans at earthmimic.com]

Sean et al,

The formula for ROI would be easy to write but long and hard to plug real
life numbers in. What is native soil? How much native top soil is left?
What are you growing? The landowner is going to have to make some back of
the envelope calc's and then ground truth them so their neighbor knows if
its a good deal @ $200/t or not. This is why Im looking for a general
market value, to start to put together some ROI's estimates for local land
conditions. 

Another issue to marketprice is the quality of agri-char. Some may not be
worth more than a lump of lignite and some may be worth well over our
assumed $200/t. 

But before agri-char goes anywhere...some norms need to be assembled so
that marketing dept's can do their work. For the farmer even to start to
evaluate adding char to the land, he needs something to work from, not just
a concept. 

Added to this marketprice...is there any carbon credit company paying for
TP sequestering in the usa? Certainly this could augment the cost to the
farmer and/or producer. 

Brian 



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