Looking forward to the test results of others. In my test applications, at 2 to 5% w/w in coir-based mediums, carbonates and hydroxyl ions became more...
Stephen Hayden
solid-ground@...
Jan 1, 2009 9:05 pm
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FYI Another paper by David A. Laird. I didn't see the attached document being referenced anywhere on the list. Original source here: http://tinyurl.com/8od95l ...
Lloyd Helferty
lhelferty@...
Jan 2, 2009 5:40 am
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Folks, I have been contacted a couple days ago by a gentleman who works for the US Army Corps of Engineers on projects in and around the Mississippi river. He...
Lloyd Helferty
lhelferty@...
Jan 2, 2009 5:54 am
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Someone by the name of Don Fletcher wrote the following on the http://greenhome.huddler.com <http://greenhome.huddler.com/> Forum: Use of a pyrolitic process...
Lloyd Helferty
lhelferty@...
Jan 2, 2009 6:55 am
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from Lewis L. Smith Right on, Lloyd ! I have had some dealings with the Corps recently in PR with regard to navigable waters. They are "in the doghouse", not...
Methinks it would not be prudent to put char in these hard structures without a long-term R&D effort to determine the impact on the structures' ability to do...
re: Payments; Just who is supposed to be paying whom? In case no one has noticed, there is a world wide economic downturn right now. The American Auto makers...
James Thomas
jthomas@...
Jan 2, 2009 7:06 pm
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While the ACE caught allot of flak about Katrina, I think it was more a case that they were made into a sacrificial lamb, while politicians in the area, got...
Granted. OTOH, I feel that I must point out that the levies and such were never designed to deal with a Cat 5 hurricane like Katrina - they were only rated to...
... It's interesting to look at how fire is used as a management tool in this very belt. take a look at ...
andrew heggie
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Jan 2, 2009 10:14 pm
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The Corps told everyone that would listen - local voters even approved money to spend in improvements, and what happened? The money was wasted on buddies and...
A critical analysis of proposals for 'carbon negative' bioenergy, including biochar (agrichar). There are probably quite as few things in these document that...
Lloyd Helferty
lhelferty@...
Jan 3, 2009 1:04 am
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Lloyd etal 1. I sent a critique on an earlier version. See it and their response at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuelwatch/message/2819 . 2. There...
i'm unsure why everyone gets so excited about these biofuelwatch.com folks. reading their material, they self-reveal as cranks. the critique of biochar is...
Greg, The Corps has been misguided for many years. It resembles the Army at large in its institutional myopia. Destruction of wetlands in the name of ...
Hear here, Jim! I agree. Read it and then you can know their whole story. They criticize snipits and do not themselves present any sort of plan or even...
i suspect a bit of flawed logic and overstated numbers here. yes, in hot climates, biological digestion of organic matter gets pretty high. perhaps nearly...
Thanks Ron, I missed these. (In early December I was quite busy prepping for the CBI conference in Montreal and was not reading others e-mails much). I quite...
Lloyd Helferty
lhelferty@...
Jan 3, 2009 6:25 am
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Maybe this has already been addressed, but Gaunt and Lehmann in, "Energy Balance and Emissions Associated with Biochar Sequestration and Pyrolysis Bioenergy...
List: This is partly to respond to Lloyd, Sean and Jim messages of the last day - re the Biofuelwatch (BFW) topic of the last few days. Then I ask for...
Hi Paul, What temperature range does G&L suggest as ideal? What compounds are formed? I was of the impression that semi-volatile PAHs were artifacts of lower ...
Thanks Joe. I agree. This gentleman has just started working for the US Army Corps of Engineers (in December) as a Civil Engineer Technician. He is working in...
Lloyd Helferty
lhelferty@...
Jan 4, 2009 1:16 am
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Thanks Paul. I was able to download the document from <http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/publ/ES&T%2042,%204152-4158,%202 008%20Gaunt.pdf> ...
Lloyd Helferty
lhelferty@...
Jan 4, 2009 2:49 am
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Ron, Thank you for this. I think it is quite a well thought out reply. My preferred route on this portfolio would be to positively engage with BFW and bring...
Lloyd Helferty
lhelferty@...
Jan 4, 2009 2:52 am
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Hi Ron, I think we had a discussion on the list noit to lonfg ago about form and content in scientific papers. There can be a vast difference reading a...