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A new biochar research literature database by Jacob Jeffers has been getting a lot of kudos in the biochar community. I’ve added a link to the Links page. … Continue reading
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Opinion: Where is agriculture’s place in a low-carbon economy? One important focus area for biochar in NZ is water quality butting up against intensive dairy. Maybe this could be addressed in the future with more research on riparian margin biochar … Continue reading
The European Journal of Soil Science dedicates the January issue to biochar in soils: new insights. See the link bellow, (all the papers are free) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejss.2014.65.issue-1/issuetoc One of the 21 papers has NZ links… … 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
“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
This is the title of a masters thesis by Jake Northup from Iowa State University that has been getting kudos from the international biochar community… “… Many biochar-based substrates produced plants with shoot dry mass greater than or equal to … Continue reading
Thanks to Barry Batchelor for identifying this story on research under way by the South Australia No-Till Farmers Association. Note the much lower application rates that may better reflect the economics of biochar utilisation in broad acre applications. http://www.theland.com.au/news/agriculture/cropping/general-news/biochar-creates-options/2663817.aspx?storypage=0 … Continue reading
Erich Knight provides some great marketing for the upcoming USA biochar conference: “This article omits the concomitant benefits of biochars for soil Carbon sequestration, building soil biodiversity & nitrogen efficiency, in situ remediation of toxic agents, and how modern thermal … Continue reading