[Terrapreta] Company wants to use oil-spill tech as biochar feedstock?

[Max Turunen]

Two things:

1. Not a word, not a *peep*, about the plant compost part. Just only carbon
without the nutrient part.  Why not mention that it is possible to Do It
Yourself mix this carbon powder with freshly decomposed, composted, plant
mush ? Why not mention that Do It Yourself methane biogas digestors produce
apparently suitable composted plant mush for this... utilizing nowdays
wasted plant materials, byproducts of farming, while giving farms much more
energy than they need themselves, enough to sell most of it to the grid. Why
not mention this at all ?

2. Mycelias. Mushrooms. They actually seem to eat up various of the forms of
oil and metabolize it into forms of mushrooms we recognize. It appears that
to them it is just very old decomposed organic feed to use.
More data on that bewildering point, and tests about it, can be found in
Mycelium Running, by Paul Stamets, Ten Speed press (amongst many other
practical Do It Yourself small and large scale mycelia applications).

and a third thing... (relating to the claims, and aims of the said
company... the whole bioremediation momentum):

Why not collect Water Hyacinths from the overnutritioned waters (ones that
are full of organic "filth"), then sun dry half of them, and burn them into
charcoal and pyrolysisgas energy.... and other half to biogas digestors
(large airtight plastic bag is the simplest... with waterlock from garden
tube and old plastic bottle...In India the poor communities use clay
cavities instead of plastic bags)... then to make the Terra Preta mixture
from the rotted plant mush and powdered charcoal from pyrolysis utilized
plants... and spread that to frigid sandlands... Thus, this could mean
practical, doable by even very poor communities... transferring of nutrients
away from waters that are chocked with them... into sandlands that badly
need them.... while preventing the methane emissions from the naturally
rotting (in their habitat waters) water hyacinths. After all... Methane
seems to be even much worse greenhouse/climate change gas than CO2.


MaxT

  And all the CO2 that is produced by burning of Methane and/or Pyrolysis
gasses (like CO) to feed plant growing areas, greenhouses or just
orchards.... and mycelial farming.... add rockdust for minerals... and why
not fermented bacterial soilfeed from india with some cow urine, some raw
sugar (or perhaps potato starch) and a barrel of water... just to wake the
soil bacterial scene up... and and and... and so on.
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