[TheForge] eco coke

[peter fels]

Seems the "biochar" has other soil virtues, including fighting compaction, holding water for  an extended time for plant roots and sequestering some nutrients for later use....It also endures a heck of a long time.
Buried wood gets broken down and returns to the carbon cycle pretty promptly, given moisture.


On May 25, 2011, at 4:08 PM, CraigSchaefer wrote:

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> "As promoted in America,  it wasn't the charcoal fuel goal, but as a method 
> of turning waste wood into sequestered carbon  soil." 
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> Couldn't you just bury the crap and sequester ALL of the carbon instead of letting some of it go as CO2 and CO from burning off the volatiles? 
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> Hard to believe someone got a recent patent on this idea.   Making charcoal in an airtight environment is not a recent revelation. 
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