Kelpie Wilson from www.wilsonbiochar.com has led this initiative… “A quick summary of results of experiments in open burn techniques to minimize smoke and maximize charcoal production. Experiments were conducted by volunteers over a 3 day period, November 15-17, 2013, outside … Continue reading
I’ve been a little slow in finding the output from this conference… I’m sure the most comprehensive biochar event to date. This link leads to all the conference content including video coverage. … Continue reading
An opportunity here for to get biochar understanding into an expert panel. This Waikato river quality program should be well funded and should include support for biochar nutrient management research. My June posts are probably connected with this new initiative… … Continue reading
The following presentation was given by Sam Gregory at the 2013 WasteMINZ conference on 23 October 2013: “Application of biochar to a soil contaminated with organochlorines and arsenic (As) from a past agricultural practice known as sheep dipping was analysed … Continue reading
David Yarrow has put out this for comment… http://www.dyarrow.org/adsorb/ If some of this is still too much for your rusty organic chemistry, I recommend checking out this… https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry … Continue reading
This biochar workshop delves deep into the many aspects of biochar production and application. Part 1 focuses on practical production techniques using ‘drum within drum’ retort. There may be some advantages for this over the TLUD system (ie, reduced supervision). … Continue reading
This should prove to be a valuable contribution to the accumulated knowledge on the benefits of combining biochar and compost (and incorporating references to our very own Clough et al on biochar and soil N dynamics) … ———- Forwarded message … Continue reading
This recent TED-talk by Rob Lerner has been receiving accolades from the biochar community… http://sea-biochar.blogspot.com/2013/10/biochar-putting-carbon-genie-back-in.html … Continue reading
“Researchers report that wood-biochar supercapacitors can produce as much power as today’s activated-carbon supercapacitors at a fraction of the cost.” Read more: http://www.theengineer.co.uk/energy-and-environment/news/biochar-used-to-produce-supercapacitors/1017349.article#ixzz2iyzhDkTf … Continue reading
Don Graves’ second article on biochar has just been published in the Nelson Mail… http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/features/lifestyle/going-green/9271729/Biochar-and-soil-carbon-sinks-encourage-soil-first-farming This report was pushed to me via the google search engine so I guess that’s good news for biochar profiling in NZ. Here’s a link … Continue reading