[Terrapreta] Commercial charcoal briquettes

[Allan Balliett]

What about the 'organic' brands? The ones sold a Whole Foods, etc? -Allan

At 10:27 AM -0700 5/9/07, Janice Stettler wrote:
>Mr. Trevor asked about commercial brands of charcoal like Kingsford. 
>These products use coal dust, saw dust and charcoal in their 
>formulation.  While coal is carbon, it is a crystallized form 
>without the necessary porosity.  Saw dust sucks up nitrogen in the 
>course of breaking down.  Neither of these constituents are 
>desirable.
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>Tony Stettler
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