On Monday 31 October 2011 20:01:02 Tom Miles wrote: > If I am taking char from a TLUD and adding it to cooking scraps for > compost do I ignore the carbon in the char when calculating the Carbon > to Nitrogen ratio?
That's an interesting one because we know the char contains both labile and recalcitrant carbon. The bugs that compost the scraps need labile carbon to respire and nitrogen to make amino acids. Intuitively I'd guess one would ignore the fixed or recalcitrant part of the char but am also interested in Frank's opinion. AJH _______________________________________________ Stoves 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/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
