Thanks Tom, sounds like you know all about it, maybe the people in the village should lean on the company to re-start the gasifier? - anyway not my business. Cheers, Geoff.

Hi Ron, off topic, but you may have some sugestion, - for someone in America to contact the situation, - expect that the char would be for cement? - I see they have some char already.. Geoff. https://

Jonno, Taking the Purist point of view, that only perfection is even worth your notice, is not helpful, nor is it reasonable, nor does it achieve anything. I don’t care if you were a puritan in your l

Hi Suze, how can I protect my idea for all by using Community Commons? please. Geoff Thomas.

Oops, i have got it intertwined with a bloke from Vancouver, wanting to dry his wet wood before charring it, - sometimes threads just seem to segue into another thread, and the original thread just va

#rocketstove #retort

Hi Jonno, the chip heater produces no charcoal, only heated water. Sorry not good at drawing, perhaps others on line have a drawing? Had all that stuff, it doesn’t seem to make it through upgrades etc

#rocketstove #retort

Hi, Kobus and all, this thread developed around a small user wanting to use wet wood, - True? The use of a rocket stove was suggested ? and other ideas. My take is that the rocket stove is argued to b

#rocketstove #retort

It seems there are people who will register anything that they think they can then use to get money they have not earn’t. An associate was telling me the other day that the new fire truck water delive

Can higher PH kill the fungus, ? - ie add Borax, at higher temperature, - 30 degrees, or lower ph, - iron sulphate etc, with it’s advantages? seems unfortunate that the Biochar has to be devoid of any

Hi Tom. good thought, I always assumed that the pots were used (anybody who goes to India would understand that Pots are everywhere, used as we would use plastic or paper wrappings, glass or plastic c

Hans, to be sure there is natural formation of Terra Preta, however there are significant areas of Terra Preta in the Amazon with the shards, right next to very poor soil that would not likely support

No Allan, it means that if you find millions of pottery shards in a specific area of Terra Preta, it was probably put there consciously by human beings. G

Of course forest fires and river flooding can create some Terra preta in some situations, and humans can add charcoal to soil as is being done now. I agree with Marthuranatha that explaining the potte

Hi Ron we discussed this issue in depth, less than a year ago, (-I hope..) I and others submitted various articles in reply to a member submitting concerns. An enthusiastic exchange ensued, a couple o

#pah

Many years ago, as I was designing, supplying, and installing, Renewable energy systems, I found that I had taken, ‘inadvertently,' responsibility for old batteries. Burning them was very polluting, s

#plastic

Just for myself, I wouldn’t mind hearing about prototypes.

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Ta, Tom. G

Thanks Tom, I wish I could have accessed that ‘Biochar week’, - whatever - I did think that that talk was not up to our speed in the industry now, but good to hear it anyway. Cheers, Geoff.

My Pleasure Ross, - You can probably run 4 mm rods on that Welder, at least, and the 4mm rods are more available as unbeatable in pipe line welding, - the cellulose rods, particularly the 4mm, with th

I would go further than Hugh. - I have spent many years welding, often on galvanised steel work, - living in the wet tropics, any other steel is quickly ‘toast’, ie burnt slowly by oxidation, - usuall