[Terrapreta] the pyrogenic nature of pyrolytic charcoal

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

Michael,

I know its true.  I took delivery of those two truck loads!

Gerrit


On 6-Sep-07, at 4:59 AM, Michael Bailes wrote:

>
>
> On 04/09/07, Gerald Van Koeverden <vnkvrdn at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Dr. Antal,
>
>         Charcoal produced by pyrolysis, as Adriana Downie writes,  
> tends to
> be highly pyrogenic.  In an earlier message, she described charcoal
> stored in plastic pails as melting the containers.  I know two
> instances (another company) when such pyrolytic charcoal being
> transporting have started combusting.  This makes storage (under
> nitrogen?), handling, and shipping (flammable materials licensing,
> etc.) rather problematic.  Is the charcoal produced by flash
> carbonization pyrogenic?  If so, how have these difficulties been
> solved?
>
> Gerrit
>
>
> I find this hard to believe unless the char has only just been made  
> and not properly extinguished.
>  Here it is mostly stored in paper bags, so we should have fires  
> everywhere.
> I have seen pallets of them and no spontaneous fires.
>
> (I have seen spontaneous fires of oily rags in a factory dustbin.)
>
> There are no government warnings or regulations coving char safety   
> either.
> Chemist shops should have little fires on their charcoal tablet  
> counter
>  It should also be impossible to put out a bushfire.
>
> -- 
> Michael the Archangel
>
> "You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . .
> Most people don't know that"
> FROM
> http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf

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