“It’s showtime for soil biodiversity,” Scary news, certainly. To have it pointed out again** that, "the world’s ocean of soil is one of our largest...
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Erich Knight
erich_knight
May 15, 2013 7:00 am
* *Dear Policy & Soils,* Cirrus Mineral & Metal clouds,.* Cirrus Mineral dust & Metal cloud condensation nuclei Over all Cirrus clouds heat the planet, net...
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Erich Knight
erich_knight
May 7, 2013 6:52 am
Dear Biochar Policy & Soils, *Sino-German Biochar, Loess Restoration & Nano-Steel,...* *Report on Sino-German Symposium “Biochar in Agriculture” held at...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 30, 2013 5:23 pm
Why? BCUZ "seed signalling" [Promoting Seed Germination] could be important**. ** "/The first two weeks of seed germination and plant growth is the most...
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Daniel Mataruka
dfmats
Apr 30, 2013 8:10 am
Y ... Y On Apr 30, 2013 7:12 AM, "Erich Knight" < erichjknight@... > wrote: Dear Policy & Soils, Reduced N2O; Who ,What, When, Where & Why;...
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Erich Knight
erich_knight
Apr 30, 2013 5:12 am
Dear Policy & Soils, * Reduced N2O; Who ,What, When, Where & Why; * Agricultural soils represent the main source of anthropogenic N2O emissions. Recently,...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 30, 2013 3:39 am
See: https://www.facebook.com/events/446253322134490/ Biochar Ontario is partnering with EnvironFocus Incorporated to organize: Eco Rendezvous -- Biomass and...
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Erich Knight
erich_knight
Apr 29, 2013 3:29 am
Dear Policy et all, The convergent interest & technology of Astrophysics and microbiology already demonstrated in this thread about "off the shelf"...
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Erik Van Lennep
erik_van_lennep
Apr 28, 2013 3:19 pm
Still in Ireland, *en route* to Spain, by way of Netherlands. Confused yet? ... Stay tuned............... erik SKYPE green.heart www.youthandelders.org youth...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 28, 2013 2:56 pm
FYI A nice rebuttal to the Climate News Network article <http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/04/soil-carbon-science> By Tim Radford. See below,...
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Kevin C
redirondog
Apr 28, 2013 8:26 am
Dear Josiah Do you, or ANY List Members know of a solvent that can dissolve the inorganic carbon portion of biochar? If not, the article is fluff. Kevin...
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Josiah Hunt
josiah.hunt54
Apr 27, 2013 9:00 pm
Multiple expletives would be useful in explaining my feelings towards the attention grabbing media sensation spinning off this one "scientific" article (which...
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Burkhard Kiehne
burkhardkiehne
Apr 27, 2013 3:13 am
These numbers I got from bamboo seed suppliers in Thailand and China, but also from Charlotte O'Brien (she published those numbers somewhere), who works...
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Ron
rongretlarson@...
Apr 27, 2013 1:58 am
Burkhard: I think you are on the right track. Can you give any cites for the 70 Gt/ha-yr value? Dry biomass, not C, i presume. For how many hectares...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 27, 2013 12:10 am
I've been tweeting this every time I see reference to this article: Of course does not mean #biochar ...
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Burkhard Kiehne
burkhardkiehne
Apr 26, 2013 11:24 pm
This article is very interesting, but I cannot agree completely. Nobody postulated that charcoal will stay for ever in the soil. Most scientist gave the number...
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nnumericality
Apr 26, 2013 10:21 pm
... Yes, I had to join SA in a hurry and suddenly I was "Ballarat"; :-) I'm a compulsive biochar cheerleader. Frankly I was bluffing in that I haven't read the...
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rongretlarson@...
Apr 26, 2013 8:24 pm
"nnumericalty" and Biochar-soils: 1. If you are also "Ballarat";, thanks for going to the effort. Because of your note below I added this at the SA site: "This...
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nnumericality
Apr 26, 2013 7:03 pm
This article also showed up in Scientific American, so I went to comments to critique its scientific method. -- Brian...
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nnumericality
Apr 26, 2013 6:33 pm
I was hoping we wouldn't see more articles like this: http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/04/soil-carbon-science excerpt: Some environmentalists...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 24, 2013 10:39 pm
*New biochar group to focus on economics* The Canadian Biochar Consortium is planning large-scale biochar field trials across the country in the hopes of...
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Kevin
kchisholm@...
Apr 24, 2013 12:14 pm
Dear Erich Lets make it simple and get back to fundamentals.. :-) There is some confusion about the definition of "Biochar". The definitions of "Biochar" seem...
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Erich Knight
erich_knight
Apr 24, 2013 5:39 am
Thanks Thomas, "Despite the spin on this as something new it isn't really, it is long known that small refractory molecules are readily transported, and in...
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rongretlarson@...
Apr 23, 2013 10:00 pm
Greg cc Tom etal (adding David Laird and Carolyn Masiello who have much more expertise and biochar interest in this area than I . 1. In conversation today with...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 23, 2013 8:46 pm
Thanks, Tom. Greg, With regard to loss of biochar from soils, of course it will "remove whatever carbon benefit biochar bestows on soils/land plants". This...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 23, 2013 5:50 am
Ron, Don't get yourself in a knot over this article... Frankly, I don't look at this paper in a negative light at all! In fact, I think it could potentially be...
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Erich Knight
erich_knight
Apr 21, 2013 6:41 am
Dear Policy & Soils, *Cool to Colorado?* In California, Cool Planet Energy Systems may relocate its headquarters to Denver, opening a manufacturing plant there...
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rongretlarson@...
Apr 21, 2013 2:50 am
Lists: It appears that a recent paper in Science that briefly mentions biochar will get a lot of play. Negative "play" that I think is unwarranted. My last...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 19, 2013 1:09 pm
Wow!!! What an amazing, eye opening article~! It puts much of what we know into perspective. Well worth the time to read through... Regards, Lloyd Helferty,...
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Lloyd Helferty
lloyd_helferty
Apr 19, 2013 3:04 am
Notice of Correction In the message sent on April 16th regarding the joint *Biochar Ontario AGM* and *EnvironFocus /Eco Rendezvous/* that takes place in a...
