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 | phocalimagery2 on Carbon0 (13) |
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Hi Eva,
We as modern society most certaintly do not want to trash any forests, much the opposite which is to replace and regrow forests (native companion plants) that have been raped from the land over the past few hundred years.
By improving the soil with bio-char, the yeilds are greater per acre which should lower the demand for more cropland, hence the forests remain. Carbon has a positive charge that binds the nutrients around the plants, rather than nutrient runoff in heavy rains.
The material sourced for bio-char production is the rubbish that would normally be dumped as landfill, and green waste like weeds and bi-products from farms. Town councils that collect household green waste return it as bio-char blended soil to community gardens and produce suppliers of carbon enriched potting mix.
So the idea is to re-use waste products in a new way, not to cut down tree’s to use as a source, that would be pointless and backward thinking.
Hopefully in the future we won’t need to produce bio-char beause we will be far less rubbish polluting than we are now and the forests will cover more of the Earth again, for a natural carbon balance.
Have a great weekend, Mark
By: phocalimagery2 on August 28, 2009
at 10:07 pm