[Terrapreta] Madison energy firm BEST Energies receives $275, 000 grant

[Tom Miles]

More on the business side of developing terra preta. Thanks to Michael
Bailes' recent post and for spotting this.  BEST Energies has been
successful at getting a grant from the government of NSW for work to be
completed by 2009. 

 

BEST Energies press release:

http://www.bestenergies.com/pressreleases/BESTenergies_pressrelease_20070620
.pdf

 

Three work areas are described:

1.     The ability to classify the surface characteristics of black carbons
and the chemical pathways that enable them to limit GHG emissions from soil
systems; 

2.     quantify the reduction of GHG emissions resulting from the
application of black carbon to agricultural soils; and 

3.     quantify the savings versus the costs of using those pathways for
reducing GHG from both an environmental and economic perspective.

 

Australia seems to be making public funding available for this kind of work.
I would guess that most US funding of this kind is going to universities
rather than private companies. 

 

Tom Miles   

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