[Terrapreta] Fwd: Soil improvement from oil ?

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Michael,

Yes, certainly.  You could post it there and tell any of them to send any comments they might have my direction (sean.barry at juno.com<mailto:sean.barry at juno.com>).

Yeah, there is a Dynamotive project in Iowa (or being planned), where they will make bio-oil from corn stover and they will be trying to determine if the bio-oil can be used as a soil enhancing, soil amendment.  I'm thinking it might need to be a very light application, because, for comparison, there is only a small percentage of bio-oil, volatile mater, etc in charcoal.  It will be interesting to see what they come up with.

That article that talked about this was in Grist, maybe?

SKB
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  Thanks Shan,
  Can I re-post your analysis on the permaculture and hypography "organic gardening" forums?

  Do you think natural fertilisers such as 'blood and bone' be a better deal for the environment? 

  If "wee beasties" grow on the resins and bio-oils on charcoal.
   Could bio-oil be used as a soil amendment?
  This is the question I asked the people in the States making bio-oil (Dynamaotive?)

  You may be interested in this thread on Coal as a soil amendment.
    http://forums.hypography.com/terra-preta/11638-coal-soil-amendment.html<http://forums.hypography.com/terra-preta/11638-coal-soil-amendment.html> 






      Soil from oil?  Do you mean better soil using the energy obtained from oil?  Or do you mean a direct amendment of oil or a petroleum based product put into soil to improve its characteristics?




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