Nearly everyone skipped home from primary school at some stage of their lives extremely happy with themselves after showing teacher and their class the wonderful simplicity of photosynthesis with their colourful drawing of the process. How easily this simplicity is forgotten over time shows how destructive media and government are not just to the mental health of people in general, but to the destruction of our natural world. Science teachers who I know, repeat this anti carbon mantra at will to their students, along with long lists of the different genders. It is these 'professionals' who along with the media and our globalist politicians who are toxic to all natural life, and will, I believe, be held accountable by our creator.
If you like food and you believe in Creator then you will truly appreciate getting carbon into the soil to grow more, better, nutritious food.
If you think fire could be classified as a gift from Creator you would be humbled by the efficient processes that humans can implement to manage forests and agriculture's byproducts.
The subject of this article by Unbekoming, Topher Gardner has a channel (bitchute, rumble, etc) Biocharisma that I think you would enjoy. He explores interesting ideas and builds amazing dome homes.
A commenter in this section, Kelpie Wilson, has written a very knowledgeable text (The Biochar Handbook) and authors a Substack, Biochar Prepper. Kelpie has researched, engineered and designed a excellent, portable kiln for the production of biochar from brush that would otherwise be chipped or burnt to ash. Kelpie has worked extensively with USFS producing biochar from slash piles.
Now I personally do not believe that biochar will save the world just as I don't believe atmospheric CO2 will destroy it. But I have experimented with adding biochar to soil on 1 acre farm in a controlled, side-by-side experiment and the biochar soil delivered unbelievable bounty.
Yet also I consider the industrial processing of forest slash and ag byproducts/waste and do imagine a limit to the benefit of converting these constant streams into recalcitrant form of carbon which has a generally accepted life of 400 years. Grok aided my research in estimating that if all current global levels of forest slash and ag byproducts/waste were converted to biochar then in 47 years all of the topsoil layer could have a 10% biochar component and thus be full. It is feasible to have higher percentage of char but as long as human population persists and agriculture and forests exist there will be material that must be accounted for either as extant waste or some productive conversion like biochar.
Incredible! We have so much already provided, all around us.
Mr Gardners using his intellogence has shown once again that Nature is incredible and with respect can be utilised without Industrial excesses/problems for humanity.
What was Mr. Gardner's heat source for producing biochar? I'd love to learn more, I compost horse and chicken poop but am always looking for other natural ways to improve my soil.
One youtube you can find a ton of different ways to do it. Lots of people experimenting with coffee ground and such. Waste wood is perhaps the easiest way to do it.
Also check out air burners. They are definitely doing some cool stuff too. More sophisticated equipment for dealing with the sewage sludge problem is on the way.
It all sounds plausible but where are the experimental scientific papers that show (how) it works? Need to separate what is real from the woo-woo. E.g. Does the charcoal creation temperature matter? What about “innoculation”? I tried my own experiment last year using a bucket of chicken-poo-innoculated charcoal dust on a square meter, and got no clear improvement. Do I have to repeat for X years before it starts working?
You see the most dramatic results in poor tropical soils. If you already have a rich loam soil, it won't be so dramatic. However I find the best way to use biochar is how it helps you manage other organic waste streams. Layer it into your compost pile and it will produce a more nutrient and microbially rich compost in half the time
Yes I use it for that. Also use it in a toothpowder for oral health. It cured my gum disease. I recommend CharcoalHouse.com for more info on biochar and health.
Biochar is pretty good. Net-zero is silly. We need a stable planet for sure with an engineering safety margin in case something unexpected happens. That means we need to stop asking for prophecy of Earth's future. We need to build a thermostat and control it. Just like any other cruise ship. You don't know it's hard if you haven't tried.
Environmental and climate Restoration are a different goal, better, and possibly cheaper. How do we get the planet back to the comfy conditions of the last 20,000 years, the Holocene? Biochar is a start.
One other thing is letting the Ocean do its part. You can get an Ice Age for free that way if you overdo it. The ocean likes to eat carbon dioxide and turn it in to seafood. Problem is there aren't enough whales to pump nutrients from the bottom to the surface. Whale poop used to provide food for the phytoplankton that feeds the baitfish, and all the other ocean life. But we killed 95% of the whales, mostly to make machine oil, like for my 1970 GM Automatic Transmission.
We can supplement the whale poop cheaply. Don't need whales. The right kind of iron fertilizer will do it. See Peter Fiekowski climate restoration.
these are all great ideas. unfortunately we cannot control the sun, and the science does point towards the sun and other geological forces to be the main player in the planet's temperature.
I've watched Topher being interviewed by Steve Faulkner on YT, great episode! I love the beautiful convos being shared by those willing to explore undiscovered/undisclosed topics.
Thanks for the inspiring report! You all might enjoy my Biochar Prepper substack and my book, The Biochar Handbook (Chelsea Green 2024) with tons of information on how you can make and use biochar at any scale.
I am giong to send your article here to my friend in the Philippines who is trying to grow an organic garden on about 1-1/2 acres of apparently very poor soil that he got from the local government for free. Thank you.
Looking forward to using some of ChrisTopher's biochar -- putting it out for my chicken flock and letting them consume what they'd like and redistribute on my landscape in their droppings.
Depending on how the biochar is produced, it can have quite a bit of napthalene and other poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in it. It is reasonable to assume that most "backyard biochars" have this issue. The solution to this is to mix the biochar with you chicken manure / or spent bedding and leave it there for a couple of months. This will denature the PAH - they will break down naturally over time.
Generally biochar is spread into the soil, much like how you lime soils, not put in feed. You will see talk of feeding biochar to cows and such on the web, but this is unlikely to be a good idea.
That tech is super cool, but it is still not good enough to get around the, we should probably mix it with compost and let it denature for a while problem.
Nearly everyone skipped home from primary school at some stage of their lives extremely happy with themselves after showing teacher and their class the wonderful simplicity of photosynthesis with their colourful drawing of the process. How easily this simplicity is forgotten over time shows how destructive media and government are not just to the mental health of people in general, but to the destruction of our natural world. Science teachers who I know, repeat this anti carbon mantra at will to their students, along with long lists of the different genders. It is these 'professionals' who along with the media and our globalist politicians who are toxic to all natural life, and will, I believe, be held accountable by our creator.
As we've said a million times before: There is no education. It's indoctrination.
Well-stated.
If you like food and you believe in Creator then you will truly appreciate getting carbon into the soil to grow more, better, nutritious food.
If you think fire could be classified as a gift from Creator you would be humbled by the efficient processes that humans can implement to manage forests and agriculture's byproducts.
The subject of this article by Unbekoming, Topher Gardner has a channel (bitchute, rumble, etc) Biocharisma that I think you would enjoy. He explores interesting ideas and builds amazing dome homes.
A commenter in this section, Kelpie Wilson, has written a very knowledgeable text (The Biochar Handbook) and authors a Substack, Biochar Prepper. Kelpie has researched, engineered and designed a excellent, portable kiln for the production of biochar from brush that would otherwise be chipped or burnt to ash. Kelpie has worked extensively with USFS producing biochar from slash piles.
Now I personally do not believe that biochar will save the world just as I don't believe atmospheric CO2 will destroy it. But I have experimented with adding biochar to soil on 1 acre farm in a controlled, side-by-side experiment and the biochar soil delivered unbelievable bounty.
Yet also I consider the industrial processing of forest slash and ag byproducts/waste and do imagine a limit to the benefit of converting these constant streams into recalcitrant form of carbon which has a generally accepted life of 400 years. Grok aided my research in estimating that if all current global levels of forest slash and ag byproducts/waste were converted to biochar then in 47 years all of the topsoil layer could have a 10% biochar component and thus be full. It is feasible to have higher percentage of char but as long as human population persists and agriculture and forests exist there will be material that must be accounted for either as extant waste or some productive conversion like biochar.
Incredible! We have so much already provided, all around us.
Mr Gardners using his intellogence has shown once again that Nature is incredible and with respect can be utilised without Industrial excesses/problems for humanity.
What was Mr. Gardner's heat source for producing biochar? I'd love to learn more, I compost horse and chicken poop but am always looking for other natural ways to improve my soil.
One youtube you can find a ton of different ways to do it. Lots of people experimenting with coffee ground and such. Waste wood is perhaps the easiest way to do it.
https://ringoffire.earth/
Thanks, the show "Port Protection" featured a way to do it as well. I will check out U.T. I love to see different ideas
Also check out air burners. They are definitely doing some cool stuff too. More sophisticated equipment for dealing with the sewage sludge problem is on the way.
https://airburners.com/
https://pyreg.com/carbonization-of-sewage-sludge-removes-pollutants-of-high-ecological-and-human-health-impact/#:~:text=Per%2D%20and%20Polyfluoroalkyl%20Substances%20(PFAS,and%20pyrolysis%20gas%20burning%20process.
It all sounds plausible but where are the experimental scientific papers that show (how) it works? Need to separate what is real from the woo-woo. E.g. Does the charcoal creation temperature matter? What about “innoculation”? I tried my own experiment last year using a bucket of chicken-poo-innoculated charcoal dust on a square meter, and got no clear improvement. Do I have to repeat for X years before it starts working?
You see the most dramatic results in poor tropical soils. If you already have a rich loam soil, it won't be so dramatic. However I find the best way to use biochar is how it helps you manage other organic waste streams. Layer it into your compost pile and it will produce a more nutrient and microbially rich compost in half the time
Also sounds plausible! And I just added a layer of char to my compost heap yesterday. May take it time to work through, though.
Does anyone have a resource on how to make it at home?
Also - has anyone heard of ingesting biochar for gut health?
Yes I use it for that. Also use it in a toothpowder for oral health. It cured my gum disease. I recommend CharcoalHouse.com for more info on biochar and health.
Shilajit.
This is amazing stuff. I hope someone can figure out how to make it a real feature in soil conservation.
How about outlawing and destroying anything Monsanto produces? That would be a good start.
Biochar is pretty good. Net-zero is silly. We need a stable planet for sure with an engineering safety margin in case something unexpected happens. That means we need to stop asking for prophecy of Earth's future. We need to build a thermostat and control it. Just like any other cruise ship. You don't know it's hard if you haven't tried.
Environmental and climate Restoration are a different goal, better, and possibly cheaper. How do we get the planet back to the comfy conditions of the last 20,000 years, the Holocene? Biochar is a start.
One other thing is letting the Ocean do its part. You can get an Ice Age for free that way if you overdo it. The ocean likes to eat carbon dioxide and turn it in to seafood. Problem is there aren't enough whales to pump nutrients from the bottom to the surface. Whale poop used to provide food for the phytoplankton that feeds the baitfish, and all the other ocean life. But we killed 95% of the whales, mostly to make machine oil, like for my 1970 GM Automatic Transmission.
We can supplement the whale poop cheaply. Don't need whales. The right kind of iron fertilizer will do it. See Peter Fiekowski climate restoration.
these are all great ideas. unfortunately we cannot control the sun, and the science does point towards the sun and other geological forces to be the main player in the planet's temperature.
All forms of carbon have uses.
I've watched Topher being interviewed by Steve Faulkner on YT, great episode! I love the beautiful convos being shared by those willing to explore undiscovered/undisclosed topics.
Is this possibly related to nitrogen fixation (from the air?) by leguminous plants?
Thanks for the inspiring report! You all might enjoy my Biochar Prepper substack and my book, The Biochar Handbook (Chelsea Green 2024) with tons of information on how you can make and use biochar at any scale.
I am giong to send your article here to my friend in the Philippines who is trying to grow an organic garden on about 1-1/2 acres of apparently very poor soil that he got from the local government for free. Thank you.
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Looking forward to using some of ChrisTopher's biochar -- putting it out for my chicken flock and letting them consume what they'd like and redistribute on my landscape in their droppings.
Depending on how the biochar is produced, it can have quite a bit of napthalene and other poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in it. It is reasonable to assume that most "backyard biochars" have this issue. The solution to this is to mix the biochar with you chicken manure / or spent bedding and leave it there for a couple of months. This will denature the PAH - they will break down naturally over time.
Generally biochar is spread into the soil, much like how you lime soils, not put in feed. You will see talk of feeding biochar to cows and such on the web, but this is unlikely to be a good idea.
Thank you for sharing!
https://airburners.com/
That tech is super cool, but it is still not good enough to get around the, we should probably mix it with compost and let it denature for a while problem.
Crazy, The day after taking a ride to Cape Cod to pick up some Biochar this shows up.
Many Thanks!
Do you have a link to how Topher makes his biochar? Is it easier to do that in the tropics or can you do it anywhere on Earth?
You can do it anywhere. You can make it in a kettle grill in your backyard with some sticks.
Who paints the beautiful paintings you include with each post. So gorgeous!