Organic Material, Organic Matter & Soil Carbon Many times we think of organic matter as the plant and animal residues. we incorporate into the soil. We see a...
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lou gold
lou_brasil
Oct 30, 2008 8:36 pm
David, Great. Can you give us a link? Thanks, lou ... -- http://lougold.blogspot.com http://flickr.com/visionshare/sets http://youtube.com/my_videos...
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David Yarrow
yarrow_david
Oct 30, 2008 10:45 pm
i uploaded to the files area 9 photos of a test burn with a newly fabricated, gunther-style, 2-barrel retort at pony farm in temple, NH on friday, october 24: ...
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David Yarrow
yarrow_david
Oct 30, 2008 11:04 pm
this was published in the october acres USA magazine (www.acresusa.com). much useful insights and data about soil carbon, organic farming and mycorhyzae. he...
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MFH
mfh01@...
Oct 31, 2008 12:57 am
David - how can I open the photo file without having a Yazoo membership? Ta, Max H _____ From: biochar@yahoogroups.com [mailto:biochar@yahoogroups.com] On...
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Erich Knight
erich_knight
Oct 31, 2008 2:38 am
Hi Alex, Erich in red ... This is the sort of egg on my face that I depend on this list to clean off. The 10% was from memory, I'll post the official analysis...
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mmbtupr@...
lwssmth
Oct 31, 2008 2:48 am
from Lewis L. Smith Is it possible to arrange the tests so that one distinguishes between the individual effects of particular inputs and all possible...
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Tom Miles
trmilesjr
Oct 31, 2008 3:16 am
Yahoo membership is free and not likely to cause you problems. Tom From: biochar@yahoogroups.com [mailto:biochar@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of MFH Sent:...
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David Yarrow
yarrow_david
Oct 31, 2008 3:32 am
if you're on this email listserv, you should be a yahoogroups.com list member. just in case: username: yarrow_david password: eyeland ... From: MFH To:...
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palmtreepathos
Oct 31, 2008 3:42 am
It sounds to me, that with a bit of tweaking you can make char AND heat a sauna... "filling the charcoaling chambers with rocks and brick pieces instead of...
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Mark Ludlow
dosidicas
Oct 31, 2008 6:44 am
Hi Lewis, I frequently have no idea what you are discussing. Can you please quote a bit of the original text to put your valuable responses in context? Best...
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Erich Knight
erich_knight
Oct 31, 2008 7:25 am
David, Great article Dr. "Mike" is well aware of Biochar, I have had several phone conversations with him, also with Dr Paul Hepperly at Rodale and he is quite...
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andrew
list@...
Oct 31, 2008 10:17 am
... Not so in my case :-(, I'm retrying now. ... David also posted some to: http://groups.google.com/group/terra-preta/files which seem to be publicly...
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David Yarrow
yarrow_david
Oct 31, 2008 1:42 pm
BioPower Generation Company: Green Power Conferences Start date: February 1, 2009 End date: February 12, 2009 Cost: EUR 1499 Location: Belgium, Brussels ...
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Kelpie Wilson
eiplek
Oct 31, 2008 3:45 pm
Came across a couple of items this morning. First, this conference is looking for more speakers. There is a section on biomass gasification. It would be great...
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Kelpie Wilson
eiplek
Oct 31, 2008 4:03 pm
Hi David, we are on the same wavelength this morning! -Kelpie ... provide an excellent platform for business to learn about the latest trends and international...
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Kevin Chisholm
kchisholm@...
Oct 31, 2008 4:54 pm
Dear Kelpie Isn't it inherently inappropriate to promote a connection between "biochar" and "power"? Biochar is not connected with energy. If it is used as...
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tdmeeh
Oct 31, 2008 5:05 pm
Hi All, I posted the original "low cost/tech clean charcoal" note a while back. Thanks to all the kind folks who responded to my query with valuable...
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James Thomas
jthomas@...
Oct 31, 2008 5:22 pm
Yes that is a good point. For example ,in my garden this past year I applied about 4-5" of semi-composted steer manure mixed with bedding. I tilled this in,...
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joe ferguson
jferg2114
Oct 31, 2008 6:02 pm
Not at all inappropriate. Pyrolysis products range from combustible gases to charcoal, and the mix of what comes out is strongly dependent upon how the process...
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Greg and April
gregh80915
Oct 31, 2008 6:14 pm
I'm not a engineer either, but just off hand, I'd say your going to have problems loading and unloading your retort, for a couple of reasons. 1) Top loading...
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Jason Aramburu
jasonaramburu
Oct 31, 2008 6:29 pm
Any idea what will be the carbon/energy balance of this kiln... ie how many pounds of biomass is charred for each pound of wood combusted? On Fri, Oct 31, 2008...
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Max Turunen
maxturunen@...
Oct 31, 2008 7:49 pm
All heat comes out at the top, in the middle. No smoke though, as that smoke is efficiently burned. (horrid amount of white smoke / steam if wet sticks are...
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tdmeeh
Oct 31, 2008 8:51 pm
It is only a drawing at the moment. If I am not mistaken, the dry mass out per dry mass in for charcoal kilns generally ranges from 15 to 35% and depends on...
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tdmeeh
Oct 31, 2008 9:00 pm
Thanks for the feedback, Greg. I was thinking that one could just toss materials in and shovel char out with a grain shovel. Regarding the gas collector...
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Greg and April
gregh80915
Oct 31, 2008 9:37 pm
Speaking just for my self, I have a large contractor grade wheelbarrow, and the way I figure it, it takes quite a bit of shoveling to fill it, and if I have to...
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lou gold
lou_brasil
Oct 31, 2008 10:05 pm
*Can charcoal paint the world ...
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chris braun
neobsam
Oct 31, 2008 10:14 pm
Hello, http://terracarbona.org/chardb/ An updated version CharDB 3.0 has just been released! It works mainly as before but I cleaned up the code and refined...
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mmbtupr@...
lwssmth
Oct 31, 2008 11:31 pm
from Lewis L. Smith In response to your query of 2:45 AM today, forwarded herewith is the post to which I was replying. Sorry I didn't make that clear,...
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Brent Neal
fbneal
Nov 1, 2008 12:45 am
In regards to the variables here and the levels, I -highly- recommend that you use a designed experiment assuming interactions between all the variables. You...
