[Terrapreta] Economics of biochar

[chris braun]

Hello Sean,

What is the current stand of your reactor ?
Have you already made field trials ?

Sincerely yours,
Christelle

On Jan 11, 2008 6:02 AM, Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com> wrote:

>  Hi Greg,
>
> I have many of the books too and have been through some, but not all or
> even much of it.  Although I would say I don't completely understand it yet,
> like Tom Reed or Agua Das (NREL/BEF), Robert Brown (NREL/UofIA), Michael
> Antal (UofHI), Danny Day (Eprida) might, I'm slowly getting there.
>
> I have cracked open some of my best college biochemistry books and bought
> and read from many other books sources and articles; Knowledge Publications,
> Scientific American, American Association for the Advancement of SCIENCE
> (AAAS + SCIENCE Journal), Nature, IEEE, IREE (Inititative for Renewable
> Energy and the Environment in Minnesota), the University of Minnesota,
> Department of Defense, the IPCC,  United Nations FAO/TPI, and etc.
>
> I read as much as I can, too, of anthropological history like; Jared
> Diamonds, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse" and Charles Mann's,
> "1491".  I paid up my US$229 for Dr. Johannes Lehmann's (Cornell University)
> seminal compilation on Terra Preta, "Amazonian Dark Earth, Origins,
> Properties, Management".  I read all over Wikipedia and the Internet, too.
>
> To me, it is all so very interesting; the chemistry, physics, engineering,
> and the applied science is all very invigoratingly thought provoking for
> me.  I can do it all day and night most of the time.  I think about and talk
> about it even while eating and sleeping.  I'm steeped in it.
> It's just a great big, world wide, scientific research, experimentation,
> and applied science development project!!!  I'm probably going to stay at it
> until I die.
>
> I am building a reactor (and more other designs and devices to follow) to
> do experiments.  I want to make and sell charcoal, biomass energy, gases,
> and biomass-to-energy/bniomass-to-charcoal conversion devices.  I want to do
> my own field testing with charcoal in soils and to help others to develop
> Terra Preta soil testing trials, development soil test procedures, and
> charcoal making methodologies and recipes.
>
> I'm trying real hard to learn and still learning, because I really want to
> and I love doing this kind of work.  More than anything else, I think
> it is my desire to understand this topic that helps me understand it.
>
> Regards,
>
> SKB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Greg and April <gregandapril at earthlink.net>
> *To:* Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:37 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] Economics of biochar
>
> Been there - even have a number of the books - still doesn't make it any
> easier to understand.
>
>
> *From:* Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com>
>
> *To:* terrapreta at bioenergylists.org ; Greg and April<gregandapril at earthlink.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2008 20:38
> *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] Economics of biochar
>
>  Hi Greg,
>
> I get a lot of my information from the Biomass Energy Foundation library,
> at www.woodgas.com
>
> Regards,
>
> SKB
>
>
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