[Terrapreta] Spring Planting - Biochar

[Edward Someus]

Dear Sean / Mark / Tom
 
Thank you  for response. 
 
Yes there are extensive environmental works in Europe, for  which the 3R
(recycle, reuse, reduce) technology carbonization development stated up
already in the 80's, at that time in Sweden after my graduation form the
University of Lund.   Up until 2001 I was working stand alone, and the
fortunate was / is that in 2001 the European Union selected the development
for reward and since that time I am organizing large scientific, industrial,
farmer and Authority teams, and uniting + coherently integrating focused
efforts in the field of agro/food industrial biomass waste carbonization and
combined soil agro biotechnology, all in order to valorize and added value
processing these organic waste streams. 
 
The good issue is, that by now the EU is strongly supporting the programme
and the all European integrated scientific efforts towards biochar works and
applications. As a result of these European research and technical
development programmes London/NewYork City institutional investors already
entered on board, and by now we are under development of an medium sized
carbonization / pyrolysis project in USA with 30,000 t/year throughput
capacity. 
 
In practical terms, the objective is to develop economical and cost
efficient products, materials and technology/methods primarily for organic
farming ---- in our case in Europe we specialize for the horticultural
(vegetables and flowers) and medicinal plant production industries, and
secondarily for the low input farming. 
 
Have nice and sunny day. 
 
   
Sincerely yours: Edward Someus (environmental engineer)
HOMEPAGE:  http://www.terrenum.net   
EMAIL 1:        edward at terrenum.net
EMAIL 2:        edward.someus at gmail.com
3R Environmental Technologies Ltd. 
ADDRESS: H-1222 Budapest, Szechenyi 59, Hungary
TEL handy:  +(36-20) 201 7557
TEL / FAX:   +(36-1) 424 0224
TEL SKYPE phone via computer:  Edward Someus
3R TERRACARBON:   http://www.terrenum.net 
3R CLEANCOAL ENERGY:   http://www.vertustechnologies.com  http://www
nvirocleantech.com 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Sean K. Barry
Date: 2008.04.20. 0:55:35
To: Edward Someus;  terrapreta at bioenergylists.org;  Tom Miles
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Spring Planting - Biochar
 
Hi Edward,
 
Thanks for this response and the status update of your work.  I am impressed
with your cooperative efforts at communicating and working between
government, farmers, industry, and scientists.  Then, too, how great is it
that you are getting them to work together with you and make big things
happen in this area of research and development?  What you are calling "... 
the field of agro/food industrial biomass waste carbonization and combined
soil agro biotechnology", must be very interesting work for you?  By just
your apparent understanding of the issues and some of your descriptions of
your work, I can tell you are doing all the right things to help advance the
use of charcoal-in-soil, for both agronomic reasons and climate remediation
reasons.
 
I think some of us on the 'terrapreta' list are struggling to define what 
Terra Preta Nova" is.  I think your work aptly describes it.
Regards,
 
SKB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Edward Someus 
To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org ; Tom Miles ; Sean K. Barry 
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: [Terrapreta] Spring Planting - Biochar


Tom, 
 
Response to your question ---- Who’s planning to “plant” biochar this year?
 
Status of the plantation biochar in Europe 2008:  
 
We have continuos and extensive biochar production and test programmes in
several EU countries and Israel all the time, all in order to work with
different types of char and agro biotechnology and different climatic and
soil conditions, and most importantly working with different farming culture
and experience people, so diversity adaptation by all means is an important
issue for us. 
 
My united EU biochar science and technology programme FP6 (2005-2008) with
ongoing works is consisting of 12 high qualified EU research institutes and
large agro industrial partners from 8 countries, while the new FP7
(2008-2012) biochar programme is already 19 partners from 13 EU countries +
Israel, covering works for agro/food biomass waste and biochar added value
utilization and valorization in all the EU27, with 4 years budget 8.5
million €.  
 
Practically the first five largest EU research institutes (with core
cooperation in DE, NL, FR, IT, BE countries), many major EU research
institutes / universities and large agro/food industrial organizations are
united in the subject under my coordination, with combined financial
investment programme of the European Commission and industrial/commercial
investors. 
 
The biochar consortiums I coordinate are technology and product development
programmes, based on integrate advanced applied science and applied
industrial engineering, and always including the industrial scale up /
engineering of the scientific results, so our output is/will be IPR
protected technology and product, therefore publications are and will be
limited. This is the way how we turn science to industrial practice in the
field of agro/food industrial biomass waste carbonization and combined soil
agro biotechnology.  
 
   
Sincerely yours: Edward Someus (environmental engineer)
HOMEPAGE:  http://www.terrenum.net   
EMAIL 1:        edward at terrenum.net
EMAIL 2:        edward.someus at gmail.com
3R Environmental Technologies Ltd. 
ADDRESS: H-1222 Budapest, Szechenyi 59, Hungary
TEL handy:  +(36-20) 201 7557
TEL / FAX:   +(36-1) 424 0224
TEL SKYPE phone via computer:  Edward Someus
3R TERRACARBON:   http://www.terrenum.net 
3R CLEANCOAL ENERGY:   http://www.vertustechnologies.com  http://www
nvirocleantech.com 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Sean K. Barry
Date: 2008.04.19. 3:44:39
To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org;  Tom Miles
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Spring Planting - Biochar
 
SKB raises his hand.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tom Miles 
To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:28 PM
Subject: [Terrapreta] Spring Planting - Biochar


Spring must be here. The ice is starting to recede from the lake shores in
southern Minnesota. Who’s planning to “plant” biochar this year?
 
Tom
 
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