[Terrapreta] Spring Planting - Biochar
Mary Lehmann
mlehmann3 at austin.rr.com
Tue Apr 22 10:45:20 CDT 2008
Where are you "under development of an medium sized carbonization /
pyrolysis project in USA with 30,000 t/year throughput capacity"?
Mary Lehmann
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On Apr 20, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Edward Someus wrote:
> 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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