[Terrapreta] & Greenhouse Gas from the non-Indian pensioner

[Richard Haard]

On Mar 2, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Michael Bailes wrote:

> Thanks Richard an interesting article on TP

The pdf was passed on to us by Folke Gunther. Tom has the link now and  
is available. The usendit service is how Folke transmitted it. It is  
an interesting service.
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> I was most interested in his comments that charcoal should not be  
> added to soil without fertiliser as it would lock up nutrients.
> I had not heard that before

or compost.

I concur completely with Gunther on this aspect of charcoal in soil.  
At the UGA conference in 2004, I was instructed to pretreat the  
charcoal by Dr Ogawa and others. In addition my own research last year  
which is a repeat of Christoph Steiners work in Manaus charcoal  
combinations fared better than charcoal alone. Also, Larry Williams  
has had particular success with his enrichment of charcoal with urine,  
food drippings and aging in the weather for several months before  
using. At present we are designing a spring treatment of our remaining  
charcoal that we will implement in a few weeks. We will inform the  
list how this comes together.

We both, Larry and I , feel very strongly that this biological  
dimension of terra preta nova is critical. Beyond this idea of  
charging this charcoal with nutrients getting it as habitat for the  
beneficial bacteria and fungi makes it prepotent.

Also keep in mind that in general the context for the use of charcoal  
in soil and terra preta nova is in analog situations to the  tropical  
oxisols, ie om poor, leached. In arid climate soils and in naturally  
rich soils this requirement for precharging may not be as critical.

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> What is the software you used to send it?
> It says it has downloaded a copy to my hard drive but now having  
> read it I can't find it again.

It probably out it into a downloads folder. Do a search for a file  
named 'Terra pretav1_0 ' This work by Gunther is an important  
educational tool about charcoal in carbon capture and for the slash  
and char agenda. Please note there is also a power point  file by him  
which offers a  companion to the pdf text also available in the  
'library'.


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> Have you sent a copy to Tom so he can put it in our TP List "Library"?
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Richard Haard <richrd at nas.com>
> Date: 29 Feb 2008 17:54
> Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] free National Greenhouse Gas Accounting  
> Toolbox
> To: Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
>
> Michael
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> If you have not looked at this already Folke Gunther on biochar in  
> soil as compared to standing crop of biomass and natural decay of  
> organic matter puts this creative accounting in context.
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> Rich H
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> Download the file - Terra pretav1_0.pdf
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> On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Michael Bailes wrote:
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> Michael the Archangel
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> "You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . .
> Most people don't know that"
> FROM
> http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf
>

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