[Terrapreta] charcoal degradation - uncertainties about itshalf life

[henry buehler]

dynomotive makes an oil that is of poor quality that can be used to fuel
boilers, range fuel is to make ethanol but they have not built their plant
yet.

we need to build into our refining capacity the ability to consume trees
again like we did before we drilled for oil. 17 th century..
we have shipping containers in stacks a hundred feet high I think they could
be used as retorts to produce charcoal and vapors that can be made into
fuel. and I would use a crane for loading the retort moving it to the kiln
and then to dump out the charcoal.

50 cent gallon credit for producing methanol, we want and geological aging
is being debated here. we want carbon credits for producing charcoal, which
may have agricultural benifits.
I have some battery back up, I do use wood heat I do not have a pellet
stove. I did not use wood heat last year, I have been saving my junk mail
for heat. mostly we heat with natural gas. I try to use public
transportation. I am interested in pellet stoves and miscanthus pellets.

I think nothing is going to be done
and more people would be unhappy if you did try to do something. I had
sugested growing plants in the sea and harvesting them for fuel. some people
have strong feelings about trees.

On 11/17/07, Jim Joyner <jimstoytn at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Shawn, for good or bad, there are at least two companies that are
> converting as much of that wood as possible to pellets to be burned for
> fuel. Be nice if there were enough known about the use of biochar to
> convince the companies to make biochar instead.
>
> I'm finding it very difficult to find even a few hundred pounds of
> charcoal to experiment with.
>
> Jim
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com>
>
>  Hi Henry,
>
> That is an amazing story!  We need to turn 1.1 billion tons of carbon into
> ~260 million tons of charcoal before it decomposes, put the charcoal back
> onto that soil which the trees came from, and then plant new trees into that
> ground.  That is an achievable goal.  We can harvest energy from part of
> that biomass too as we do it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sean K. Barry
>
>
>
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