[Terrapreta] fertilizer

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Exactly. What's more, if biochar is produced industrially as a large byproduct of pyrolysis based biofuels, then you hit the petroleum-based farming system at the core: you produce local biofuels which already compete with oil at $120 for use in farm machinery, and you beat the fertilizer market simply by using less from it via biochar.

Biochar can be a wonderful story about localizing production processes and making agriculture less dependent on outside forces, inputs and markets.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lou gold 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:11 PM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] fertilizer


  look at what just came in...

  http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2029388120080520?sp=true

  i really think that the possibility of terra preta resulting in less fertilizer use is one of our strongest arguments. 


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