[Terrapreta] Assaying carbon levels in soil

[lou gold]

Hi Rick,

You would not measure the amount of carbon already in the soil. You would
measure the amount of carbon added as an agrichar amendment.

all best,

lou

On Nov 30, 2007 6:35 PM, Rick Davies <rick.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> If a poor rural community wanted to get paid for sequestering carbon in
> their farm soils, how would they or any independent third party be able to
> measure the carbon of their soils content before and after putting biochar
> in the soil?
>
> Would it be rocket science, or are there any methods that are reasonably
> low tech, whose costs would not exceed potential income gains from selling
> carbon offsets / carbon credits?
>
> (Putting aside all the questions of how they would access these markets
> via intermediaries / demand aggregators)
>
> regards, rick davies
>
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