In a message dated 11/18/2010 5:22:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: DD: Dan Dimiduk responds.
http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/18/beware-the-biochar-initiative/ DD Burying Biochar is like any other soil management practice, it needs to be balanced. Soil is a living organism. Feeding it an unbalanced diet can wreck it, feeding it a balanced diet can enhance it. Enhanced soil holds carbon, wrecked soil releases it. Best use of efficiently produced charcoal is to combust it efficiently to offset and reduce fossil fuel usage. This reduces CO2 emissions and depletion of carbon reserves. Nothing wrong with using charcoal as a tool for better growing, if that tool is properly used. Charcoal is a great end product for biomass wastes so why destroy good biomass to make it? Only replensihed and managed supplies of cultivated biomass should be used for charcoal or energy production. Use the waste biomass first. No shortage of it. Dan Dimiduk
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