Biochar in Fire Safety Plans? #technology #firesafety
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James Baskin
Hello all,
I am curious if anyone is familiar with wildfire fuel modification derived biochar being identified as a risk reduction strategy in any fire safety plan. I've been volunteering with my local county fire safe council in their update of our county's Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The plan is currently emphasizing traditional open burning of slash piles and chipping woody debris but has zilch with respect to other applications for the materials generated in establishing defensible space around structures or providing fire and fuel breaks between forested and developed areas. Has anyone heard of such?
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Brian Lewis
Yes. At maccybiochar we list one of the advantages of converting tree litter to biochar as fire hazard reduction. Brian Lewis Chair, Steering Committee Macclesfield Community Biochar Centre www.maccybiochar.com Sent from my Samsung GALAXY S5
-------- Original message -------- From: "James Baskin via Groups.Io" <jim_baskin@...> Date: 05/12/2019 3:41 PM (GMT+09:30) To: main@Biochar.groups.io Subject: [Biochar] Biochar in Fire Safety Plans? Hello all, I am curious if anyone is familiar with wildfire fuel modification derived biochar being identified as a risk reduction strategy in any fire safety plan. I've been volunteering with my local county fire safe council in their update of our county's Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The plan is currently emphasizing traditional open burning of slash piles and chipping woody debris but has zilch with respect to other applications for the materials generated in establishing defensible space around structures or providing fire and fuel breaks between forested and developed areas. Has anyone heard of such?
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Kirk Harris
James,
Check out http://bioenergyday.com/ There are several videos, some including wild fire suppression, and enough information to make some contacts. Unfortunately, these biomass power plants do burn the charcoal instead of sequestering it. Kirk H
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Tom Miles
James,
Biochar is being considered in at least one California community. Currently defensible space materials including pine needles ad solid wood are collected, chipped, stored and burned in a distant bioenergy facility.
The emergence of small pile flame cap kilns and contractor scale enclosed burners that can recover biochar like the ROI Equipment and the US Forest Service/Air Burner carbonizers make it feasible to plan periodic removal and carbonization. The material can also be carbonized in equipment with energy recovery. See: Darren McAvoy “MOBILE PYROLYSIS AND FUEL TREATMENT TO REDUCE FIRE RISK FOREST” BIOMASS AND THE BIOECONOMY VANCOUVER, WA, APRIL 25, 2019 https://westernforestry.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/McAvoy.pdf Hazardous Fuels Reduction Using Flame Cap Biochar Kilns https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/extension_curall/2057/ ROI Equipment https://roi-equipment.com/ Air Burners https://airburners.com/
Benefits for the community are reduction in disposal costs and production of biochar that can be used for local restoration, revegetation, water quality and soil health projects. Energy recovery from the solid wood is also possible depending on the local demand and distribution. The economicsof small scale systems are often a challenge.
Tom
From: main@Biochar.groups.io <main@Biochar.groups.io> On Behalf Of James Baskin via Groups.Io
Hello all,
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Dick Gallien
Winona, Mn. pays $10 a truck load to dump street leaves on this farm,
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because wet leaves don't burn. They will gladly dump all their trees here also, but won't pay anything, since wood burns. Being cramped for flat space I'll have to stack it with an old log truck, so it can dry some, then char it using sections of rr tank cars. This was suggested by a well meaning govt. employee. I had never seen it before, but just the cost of chipping/grinding very dead soft pine would kill it for me vs our thousands of solid dead ash. Anyone want to tell us the cost of just one, minus the cost of a chipper or grinder? Thanks "Biochar Now" https://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/24/biochar-now-berthoud-waste-carbon-product/
On 12/5/19, Kirk Harris <gkharris316@comcast.net> wrote:
James, --
Dick Gallien 22501 East Burns Valley Road Winona MN 55987 dickgallien@gmail.com [507] 312 0194 www.thefarm.winona-mn.us Prison bars do the confining, allowing the prisoner a mental freedom not possible in schools, where an endless barrage of assignments, lectures, questions and tests, serve the same purpose, under the guise of education, while distracting as efficiently as the cracking of whips, keeping the imprisoned from discovering and pursuing their passions, or noticing that there are no real bars------and by the time they might realize the purpose of their confinement, it is too late.
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