BIOCHAR HORIZON 2025 – by Hans Peter Schmidt & Simon Shackley, (2016) book chapter in Biochar in European Spoils and Agriculture Summarizes the progress of biochar science & applications in agricultural practices. From historical assessment of lessons learned & progress … Continue reading
http://www.businessawardseurope.com/vote/detail-new/the-award-for-environmental-corporate-sustainability-1/15785 … Continue reading
This trial run was conducted on 1st November
2015-10-27 18.04 IBI Webinar Series with Dr. Stephen Joseph_ Making biochar commercially viable for horticulture and animal feed If you are looking into commercial biochar production or applications, then I think this latest webinar is well worth the investment in … Continue reading
Here is a short video of the initial firing of a square kontiki kiln. It was fired on a mixture of paulownia and and unidentified hardwood. This prototype will probably be superseded by a more conventional and larger conical kontiki … Continue reading
Dr. John McDonald-Wharry will be speaking on biochar at the next Bioenergy Association conference on the 17 November 2015 at Waikato University. http://www.bioenergy.org.nz/event/advances-biofuel-market-opportunities Biochar is well integrated into the Bioenergy Australian. It is good to see some recognition and profiling … Continue reading
Stunning results and always good science coming from Hans-Peter’s work. It may not represent NZ industrial agriculture but there is a lot to learn from this short video. http://sea-biochar.blogspot.my/2015/10/farm-scale-biochar-production-biochar.html Hans-Peter summarizes his recent work in Nepal which covers simple biochar … Continue reading
This looks like a great event and just a hop across the water via Gold Coast (56km south). The live streaming option is innovative but it would be great to get NZ delegates in attendance. Anyone interested in a block … Continue reading
I plan to circulate a capability and cost questionnaire to testing laboratories in NZ very soon. A template for this Q-aire can be viewed for here. Your comments welcome. I am also exploring options for sending samples overseas. Please let … Continue reading
I’m sure we can learn a lot about how to establish a forestry based biochar project from this work in the USA. It would be good to get some feed-back from NZ foresters and farm-forest groups on what is shown … Continue reading