[Terrapreta] EUROPE leading the way

[Edward Someus]

Dear Naomi, 
 
Thank you for interesting info from NZ. 
 
Although several advanced progress made in the TP issue in different
countries world wide, the All European 3R COAL & CARBON - PROTECTOR -  TP
group seems to be one of the international leader in this field FROM SCIENCE
- TO - INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & PRACTICE.  We are working  in 8 countries under
the European Commission FP5 and FP6  grant funding scheme. 

The new expanded all European FP7 - TP related network project 2008-2012, -
for the European Commission I am organizing, - including all the major EU
agro research institutes and large companies from 13 West European countries
+ Israel, and covering field works in all the 27 EU countries.  

Parallel with further advanced research 20,000 m3/yr TP + bone char
production sites under development. 

Marketing + publications under preparation for 2008/2009. 

   


Sincerely yours: Edward Someus (environmental engineer)
Terra Humana Clean Tech Ltd. (ISO 9001/ISO 14001)
3R Environmental Technologies Ltd. 
ADDRESS: H-1222 Budapest, Szechenyi 59, Hungary
TEL handy:  +(36-20) 201 7557
TEL / FAX:   +(36-1) 424 0224
TEL SKYPE phone via computer:  Edward Someus
3R TERRACARBON:   http://www.terrenum.net 
3R CLEANCOAL ENERGY: http://www.nvirocleantech.com 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: naomi luckett
Date: 2007.12.17. 2:57:15
To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
Subject: [Terrapreta] NZ leading the way
 
News from New Zealand,
 
Published today in the New Zealand Herald...
 
RESEARCH
Roles focus on charcoal's benefits
 
Two professorships at Massey University have won Government funding for
wide-ranging research of "biochar".
Studies overseas have shown that turning wood or other plant material into
charcoal and burying it in soils can not only keep carbon dioxide from
reaching the atmosphere, but also help soil organisms extract more carbon
from the atmosphere. 
And the economic viability of the process can be improved if the biochar is
made as a by-product of biofuels from forestry "slash" and other waste.
The concept of improving soils with charcoal is ancient - there are theories
that it was used for centuries to improve soils in the Amazon -  but it has
been revived in modern times, partly because of the potential to claim soil
resevoirs of carbon as "sinks" in climate change mitigation schemes. 
The New Zealand research was announced last week by  Forestry Minister Jim
Anderton, who said the establishment of the two professorships was an
important step on the path towards New Zealand becoming a low-carbon nation.

One will focus on biochar and it's behaviour in New Zealand soils and the
other processing of biomass feedstock into biochar.
Pyrolysis - burning wood in the absence of oxygen - can turn material such
as wood chips and crop waste into three main components : gas (methane and
hydrogen), a renewable "bio-oil" that can be used as fuel or for "green"
chemical production, and a char that contains roughly 60 per cent of the
carbon contained in the biomass. 

-- 
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances of survival of
life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." 

- Albert Einstein 







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