Many Thanks Stephen, sounds good.

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Hi geoff The companies I work with do this all the time. You need to pretreat the wood/straw with minerals and then pyrolyse and then crush into a powder. Note the smaller the particle the faster it w

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One of the first questions friends asked me after seeig the Doug Pow videos is “how do we incorporate that in our feed” Talking today with a pellett manufactuter, (for Cows,) he maintained that small

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Stephen. A fish fertilizer company here has been adding biochar for the last few years with fantastic results for the vegetable growers. Their challenge is finding suppliers with consistent quality at

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Hi Tomaso it is interesting when we talk to farmers in Australia. Most dont want to make it themselves but to buy it. If you can provide a biochar based fertiliser of animal feed char that makes them

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Stephen Thanks for the more detailed explanation about cation and anion capacity Industrially “produced” and “commercialized” biochar has a high price … but many (auto) produce biochar at much lower p

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Phoslock is zeolite and lanthanum. Once the filter is saturated, the P cannot be separated and therefore cannot be recycled. I think that's important. I think we would end up with a filter that slowly

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May I add some further consideration here John, Have you snuffed or quenched chars and observed the differences? Quenching the hot and/ or at least ultra-dry char with various liquids, be they pure ra

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Tomaso, I have done multiple rounds of testing of raw biochar- in column tests and bottle tests both - in my experience the raw char, from all sorts of different biomass, has not been very effective a

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Hi Tomaso Biochar is much more expensive than the minerals in the enrich version in the Australian context. Most biochrs here (except for SIMCOA sell for over $ Aus1000/tonne. Even in China in the lar

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I highly recommend reading Biomass Controls' fine booklet that covers this with clarity and authority. https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:b57f9ea0-390c-4269-941c-c981cfe29

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John Thanks for sharing Can you elaborate a bit more on the differences of the “various engineered biochars made at my facility” What is the cost benefit of the different biochar engineering processes

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Stephen Very interesting Have you studied the efficacy of just biochar without the enrichment that probably increases significantly the cost of the process 200 kg of chipped hemp fibre were used as th

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Dear Harry This is a paper we published that may be of use to you. Regards Stephen

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John – this is some great data. We need to catch up some time soon.

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Good Work in Progress John! Thanks for sharing. I am sure before too long we will discuss this in a formal way between Tasmania and Oregon. In New Zealand is also a drive, desire and need to capture n

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Here is our latest data set for research we are doing with ag/water – looking specifically at dissolved phosphorous capture with various engineered biochars made at my facility. We are using Phosloc a

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Hi Harry, This is a situation where the terminology may be getting in the way of the actual question or use. Biochar is / should be best used to describe fully charged nutrient sharing media that is g

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In the Chesapeake Bay some are using Biochar as part of bio reactors and to enhance swales and ditches. Basically linear bio reactors Charles H. Hegberg, President reGENESIS Consulting Services, LLC I

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Received an inquiry from a Lake States SWCD interested in the potential role bichar could play in ag drainage management. Specifically, the nutrients moving in those systems. Can anyone point me to pu

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