[Terrapreta] WATER BOMB

[back40]

It's old stuff and widely discussed. The list was higher quality and
more advanced before. Perhaps this is the fall that never ends. . .
again. Time waster.

On 4/18/08, lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, sure if the stuff is not relevant to terra preta. However, my purpose
> here was to alert folks to an aspect of biochar that has not received much
> discussion -- namely, its ability to increase moisture retention in the
> soil. In a world of more water shortages, this might be a critical property
> and another incentive to put char into the soil.
>
> Perhaps I erred in not being explicit about the context and just providing
> the article under the assumption that everyone would understand the
> connection to terra preta. Sorry if that was the case.
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:09 PM, back40 <back40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It would be nice if the terrapreta list wasn't spammed with all manner of
> > stuff that we hear a dozen other places. Focus.
> >
> > 2008/4/18 lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com>:
> >
> > >
> > > Melting mountains called a water 'time bomb'
> > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24127215/
> > >
> > > There's a lot of competition for water coming.
> > > We need to link biochar to the water problem
> > > as well as the hunger and climate problems.
> > > Increased retention of soil moisture due to char
> > > maybe part of the response. Are there any studies?
> > >
> > > lou
> > >
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> >
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> > Gary Jones
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Regards,
Gary Jones