[Terrapreta] Dumping Char in a hole

[Jeff Davis]

I would agree with Kurt on this one. Another point being if one stores
pure charcoal in a hole what is going to stop people from digging it up
and using it as fuel. If the charcoal was mixed in the soil it would be
more difficult to the harvest the charcoal as fuel.

I also think charcoal makes a great fuel if made for fuel.


Jeff



Kurt wrote:
>
> This is NOT an attack on anyone.
>
> Someone just said:
>
> "Otherwise, it would be cheaper to simply dump the
> biochar into a hole in the ground. As coal is taken out of the ground,
> we could simply backfill with biochar."
>
> Others, in the past have said substantially the same thing.
>
> It is a concept that bothers me greatly. Somehow there is something
> perverted  about the concept of digging up fossil carbon and replacing
> it with new carbon. Perhaps it would be better to burn it in a power
> generator instead and thereby release a lesser amount of fossil carbon
> into the atmosphere.
>
> Better still, use it to make Terrapreta soil :)
>
>
> regards
>
> Kurt


-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA