[Terrapreta] Biochar included in U.S. Farm Bill

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Kevin,

That's easy pie for me.

Spend it on ...

making charcoal.

designing systems to make charcoal more cleanly and less expensively.

building nuclear power plants.

building more efficient and powerful electric cars.

building geothermal heating and cooling into all the places that people live and work.

designing systems to harvest bioenergy from non-food crops.

developing cultivars that produce lots of biomass per hectare.

exporting carbonization/pyrolysis technologies to poor, rural economies all over the world.

finding those "Super Seeds" that somebody hid from the India people when Indians designed them.

policing the heavy taxation of fossil carbon pollutant mining and oil exploration interests.

educating our children to "find another way" and to teach their children and grandchildren to do the same thing regarding "fossil carbon resources."

buying compact fluorescent bulbs for every electric bulb socket in the world.

turning NO COMMUTE jobs into the norm for people.

sending an army of ECO-WARRIORS around the world instead of combat soldiers.

...


Shall I go on?  I can go on ... I can spend $3 MILLION dollars every 15 minutes just like any WAR MONGERING f**k you'd ever find.

Regards,

SKB


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kevin Chisholm<mailto:kchisholm at ca.inter.net> 
  To: Sean K. Barry<mailto:sean.barry at juno.com> 
  Cc: terra pretta group<mailto:Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> ; Biopact<mailto:biopact at biopact.com> 
  Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 12:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Biochar included in U.S. Farm Bill


  Dear Sean

  The Research Community could do a lot with $3 million.

  What would be good projects on which money could be sensibly spent? How 
  would you suggest that anything more than $3 million could be sensibly 
  spent?

  Best wishes,

  Kevin

  Sean K. Barry wrote:
  > Hi Lorenzo,
  >  
  > $3 BILLION would be better.  Maybe $300 BILLION might make a dent.  
  > Only $3 million is an insult.  Ethanol subsidies, oil subsides, 
  > automotive company subsidies, and other farm subsides far exceed this 
  > by many decimal magnitudes.  A little something is not better than 
  > nothing.  This US Senate/House is still to bent on self-preservation 
  > in their seats, pork-barrel for their individual states, and on boot 
  > licking the oil-moguls of this world to be any good yet!
  >  
  > Regards,
  >  
  > SKB
  >  
  >  
  >
  >     ----- Original Message -----
  >     *From:* Biopact <mailto:biopact at biopact.com<mailto:biopact at biopact.com>>
  >     *To:* terra pretta group <mailto:Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>>
  >     *Sent:* Monday, May 12, 2008 11:51 AM
  >     *Subject:* [Terrapreta] Biochar included in U.S. Farm Bill
  >
  >     Hi,
  >     on May 8, the U.S. Senate-House conference committee on the new
  >     Farm Bill announced its final farm bill conference agreement. The
  >     bill includes $3 million per year funding for biochar research,
  >     development & demonstration.
  >      
  >     I thought this was good news, and wrote a short press release on
  >     it (see attachment), to be published by the Biochar Fund.
  >      
  >     Comments and corrections are welcome. Please don't distribute this
  >     text yet.
  >      
  >     Best, Lorenzo
  >      
  >     Press release:
  >
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