[Terrapreta] char & vascular systems

[Richard Haard]

Good catch Roy. Mark can you tell me what MSW is? and Also can you  
give me some references about sites of biological activity in  
charcoal? I tend to dwell on Ogawa's work which just makes sense to me.

So far as algae and vascular systems these plants do not have  have  
these specialized cellular structures for conduction of liquid. They  
are however cellular organisms  and have structures of varying from  
single cell to very large complex plants as long as 100 feet.

Rich
On Jun 7, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Mark Ludlow wrote:

> If the utility of biochar requires a xylem-rich original structure  
> to provide demonstrable benefits, then this does not bode well for  
> the conversion of such things as MSW, which at least some  
> investigators believe makes perfectly adequate biochar.
>
> Mark
>
> From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org [mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Roy Lent
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 10:24 AM
> To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
> Subject: [Terrapreta] char & vascular systems
>
> When I asked about lignite as TP I was told that lignite does not  
> work since it contains no real vascular system. At least one list  
> member was of this opinion. Now I see the discussion on the list  
> about making TP char from algae, May I point out that no algae has a  
> vascular system. Is there something I'm missing here?
>
> Roy

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