David, Exactly. The wood chips used had been sitting, semi-composting for 1-year. I didn't try to hot compost the pile, but it was so large, I could see steam coming off of it in the mornings for months.
BigDaddy -----Original Message----- From: Gasification [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Coote Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Gasification] Cheap charcoal manufacture Hi Tom, Do you have anything handy on what sort of conversion ratio (charcoal/input biomass) you were getting from the stove? And have you had the char tested for porosity etc? And re the trials "Big Daddy" mentioned, I suspect you might get better results if you dug the innoculated char into the the soil root zone. Topical application would probably be less effective. And nitrogen drawdown in most backyard gardens with healthy soil is not much of an issue with carbon rich mulch. Fresh chip can leach various chemicals that have an effect on plants. The way to avoid this is to compost the mulch for a while. Regards David _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenerg ylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
