> My original point was that we can begin now to bury the excess carbon
> using a method known to be permanent. The technology exists (even if
> you didn't care for my link to the story about the demonstration
> plant.) All that is lacking is the will.
We may have somewhat different perspectives on this, because I am
working in the field. People have been pressure cooking biomass in all
sorts of variants for ages. The Max Plank institute is relatively new
to this and I do not think they have found anything particularly novel
or exciting. Nor are they about to commercialise their process in
Coevorden, that plant has nothing to do with their lab scale
dabbling.
Nor do I see any evidence that this particular pressure cooking
variant would make biomasss especially resistant to biodegradation
compared to other carbonisation methods, or any reason why they the
term biocoal should suddenly be restricted to their product, when it
was used by others long before they got into this business.
Not to say that there aren't differences in biodegradation behaviour,
but you can't just point to a distinction between "charcoal" and
"coal", say the former is degraded over time and the latter isn't, and
then losely associate a particular carbonisation method with "coal"
and another (all others???) with "charcoal" and declare that therefore
one carbonisation method is superior to the other. That logic doesn't
work.
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