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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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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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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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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Dear Tom I would be grateful if you could email me the paper on P solubilization by oxonized biochar application. Regards Kwame

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Stormwater biofilters are being implemented widely in urban environments to provide green space, alleviate flooding, and improve stormwater quality. However, biofilters with conventional media (sand,

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Tom, Thanks for the overview. Here is a link Pacific Northwest Biochar Atlas that I believe you were involved in getting started. I am not sure how up to date it is, but there is a list of biochar sup

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We see good market potential in stormwater. Biochars are currently being used in several commercial stormwater applications. Companies like Gulleywasher and Stormwaterbiochar.com have been using bioch

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Tom, These results are encouraging and reinforcing for both stormwater management and agricultural management. Do you see stormwater management folks seeing these results as executable and affordable.

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Biochar at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 12-16, 2020 Reducing Stormwater Runoff Volumes with Biochar Addition to Highway Soils Final report, December 2019 St

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I am not sure how this is so new. A few people have reported on Mg-containing biochar (https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/9/9217). Also, the use of magnesium salts to trap nitrogen and phosphorus is al

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