... This is much the same as my understanding of how yeast autolyses into marmite. Your piece also reinforces my feeling that the result of that study where...
AJH
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Dec 1, 2008 9:30 am
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Ajh wrote ... The benefit we need to demonstrate is that the char actively keeps the minerals from this rotting available to the roots of new growth by ...
Hi biochar fellows, We're gradually phasing out our Biopact blog. Maintaining this blog has been both a challenge and a great learning experience. In the 2...
Laurens Rademakers
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Dec 1, 2008 12:20 pm
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Michael
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Dec 1, 2008 1:23 pm
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List members: I just found out that there are two (maybe three) channels broadcasting live the floor deliberations at the Poznan conference. If you are a...
What is the Ph of the soil inside and outside of your charcoal zone, and what is your soil type? Greg H. Once you accept the universe as matter expanding into...
This is the final paragraph in an essay on renewable energy in the stuffy Guardian newspaper: "Biochar is an astonishing idea. Burning agricultural wastes in...
MFH
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Dec 1, 2008 7:20 pm
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from Lewis L. Smith For some, the "Guardian" may be stuffy, but some of my English relatives find it too left of center ! As one says in Spanish, the...
Andrew, Please keep talking about this, but with the ideas of accelerated rotting and leaching in the heat and rains of the tropics and those soils there....
it simply does not make any sense to discuss tropical soils without reference to termites. they eat humus. they eat everything cellulose. some 4 GT of them and...
gordon eliott
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Dec 1, 2008 10:32 pm
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Gordon, can you provide web links re termites and related facts like 4GT of them. My understanding is that they release methane - are termite factories gorging...
MFH
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Dec 2, 2008 1:31 am
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Dear Mr. Gupta, You may be interested in the comments by Walter Schroth below. This comment was made in answer to the comment that "The colonization of biochar...
Lloyd Helferty
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Dec 2, 2008 3:39 am
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Ron Larson has posted a great rebuttal to the BFW paper that trys to cast biochar in a very negative light; ...
Lloyd, do you know what the magnifications are for the individual photos? Ta, Max H _____ From: biochar@yahoogroups.com [mailto:biochar@yahoogroups.com] On...
MFH
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Dec 2, 2008 6:22 am
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Here's my rebuttal, much less precise than Ron's careful analysis! What I don't get about the vociferous objection to biofuels as having a negative effect,...
Max, I don’t have the magnifications, unfortunately. Actually, I don’t think they are from the same sequence (i.e. they are not showing the same piece of ...
Lloyd Helferty
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Dec 2, 2008 5:38 pm
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... Sean I wish I could say more about this but I'm not a grower nor a soil scientist. My thinking is influenced by little factets I've gleaned over the years...
andrew heggie
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Dec 2, 2008 8:26 pm
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see attachment. nearing completion. for a green & peaceful planet, David Yarrow Turtle EyeLand Sanctuary 44 Gilligan Rd, East Greenbush, NY 12061 cell:...
Thanks Lloyd, “The bigger question might be why it might take many years for Biochar to achieve these high CEC properties” I’m wondering whether there is...
MFH
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Dec 2, 2008 9:59 pm
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Greg the ph in the center is 7 outside the perimeter is 6.4 soil outside the perimeter loose and sandy clay hardpan 5inches down the charcoal has reached the...
David, This is an excellent start! I'd pass it around except for the couple of question marks [??] and the fact that it hasn't been "peer reviewed". It would...
Lloyd Helferty
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Dec 3, 2008 12:26 am
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To All, Does anyone know what complimentary or synergistic effect the other anthropogenic components of Terra Preta may have on the biochar? Perhaps this...
Stephen Hayden
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Dec 3, 2008 1:41 am
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... other anthropogenic components of Terra Preta may haveon the biochar? Perhaps this information could give us clues as to how to prepare biochar for...
Lloyd, Great to see the IBI site improvements. What is meant by serious media attention? Canada has tended to be on the front edge in many things, and good...
Hi Steve, Terra Preta, as well as virtually all other historical evidence of human habitation, is associated with elevated levels of soil phosphorous. In ...
~~~ As per previous posts, in a rough trial it took up to 8 weeks for fresh char (up to half-baseball size) to sink when placed in bucket with 20 litres of...
Not entirely sure that I agree: a) Its generally possible to blow through the pores in a char lump from hardwood. Perhaps these are the remains of the...
MFH
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Dec 3, 2008 4:18 am
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Dear Mark Concerning phos... would anyone know if there were any rock phosphate deposits near the Terra Preta deposits? (within the trading distances of the...
Kevin Chisholm
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Dec 3, 2008 4:21 am
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After soaking 1/2" minus charcoal chips in citric acid solution until the foaming stopped, all the chips sank to the bottom of the bucket. Steve Hayden Solid...
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