[Terrapreta] charcoal degradation - uncertainties about itshalf life

[henry buehler]

charcoal and rusty nails ?
people with shoping carts full of scrapmetal are always on my street they
stole my gate twice, now I have a wood gate. robbins a community away is
going to power a generator with wood, robbins community power. a charcoal
retort can be made from a 55 gallon drum, I don't want to sell them. I don't
want to tell anyone you will buy charcoal from them. I was told not to burn
treated wood. tossing a sawdust covered box of junk on the fire, that was a
mistake.


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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