tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post7585620766697194505..comments2024-03-22T19:12:22.089+11:00Comments on One Salient Oversight: Not drowning, wavingNeil Cameron (One Salient Oversight)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03143948543305522865noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post-31667883485541201622008-12-05T19:18:00.000+11:002008-12-05T19:18:00.000+11:00Flannery thinks that if the world got really serio...Flannery thinks that if the world got really serious we could probably produce 6 gigatons of biochar a year! That would probably mean biocharing every agriwaste and forestry waste we could.<BR/><BR/>However, rather than getting us off the hook, it seems climate change experts are warning that we no longer have "10 years to act" but are already over the safety levels. So even if we switched to 100% clean energy tomorrow, it would STILL take Biochar a long time to bring the Co2 levels down to normal. But at least we'd be heading in the right direction then... unlike the exponential growth in Co2 emissions we are currently engaged in.<BR/><BR/>Let me know how it goes, I hear it can "burp" particularly nasty smoke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post-59896322626127529412008-12-04T15:25:00.001+11:002008-12-04T15:25:00.001+11:00On a 'field trip' (Drugs and Behaviour course at V...On a 'field trip' (Drugs and Behaviour course at Vanderbilt University) we went to Lynchburg, TN-the Jack Daniels operation. There, I saw charcoal being produced in situ, ie in open air. Always thought this had to be done anaerobically-if not in a vacuum<BR/><BR/>They did it by stacking cordwood in ricks-they said the geometry (access to drafts) was the key<BR/><BR/>Still don't understand how it was done...<BR/><BR/>CrocodileChuck<BR/><BR/>ps never liked the product (JD)CrocodileChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10762442097044797842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14237465.post-65664299105724029122008-12-04T15:25:00.000+11:002008-12-04T15:25:00.000+11:00On a 'field trip' (Drugs and Behaviour course at V...On a 'field trip' (Drugs and Behaviour course at Vanderbilt University) we went to Lynchburg, TN-the Jack Daniels operation. There, I saw charcoal being produced in situ, ie in open air. Always thought this had to be done anaerobically-if not in a vacuum<BR/><BR/>They did it by stacking cordwood in ricks-they said the geometry (access to drafts) was the key<BR/><BR/>Still don't understand how it was done...<BR/><BR/>CrocodileChuck<BR/><BR/>ps never liked the product (JD)CrocodileChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10762442097044797842noreply@blogger.com