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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Metta,<br>
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Trash --> Char does NOT equal "Biochar". [!] I would NEVER
recommend using the stuff in soils...<br>
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<i>Sierra Energy</i>'s Gasification. Also (probably) <u>not</u>
that NEW. There are many, many, many Gasification systems out
there that make 'syngas' (hydrogen and carbon monoxide) ~ and can
do things <i>similar</i> to this, although this does seem a bit
"unique"... because of this so called "<i>FastOx</i> chemical
reaction". [?]<br>
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Best thing to do is probably to ask the folks on the "Gasification
List"... (CC'd)<br>
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P.S. A Canadian company called
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has been making Ethanol from Trash for quite a while... probably <i>long</i>
before <i>Ineos Bio</i> came along.<br>
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Also ... Probably none of these companies in the article are (or
even can) claim "carbon negativity"...<br>
<br>
But, of course, if this system <i>does</i> work... maybe there
are ways of bringing it to Toronto... [?]<br>
... It would certainly help with the stuff** that <u><i>can't</i></u>
be turned into "biochar" (and used in soils).<br>
**i.e. the stuff that's too <u><i>contaminated</i></u>.<br>
( My 'business partners' here in York Region <i>may</i> be able
to help make it happen in the GTA... <i>if</i> indeed it works.
[?] )<br>
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Regards,<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"> Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist
Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada)
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48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON, Canada
905-707-8754
CELL: 647-886-8754
Skype: lloyd.helferty
Steering Committee coordinator
Canadian Biochar Initiative (CBI)
President, Co-founder & CBI Liaison, Biochar-Ontario
National Office, Canadian Carbon Farming Initiative (CCFI)
Come learn about biochar in October:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.carbon-negative.us/symposium">www.carbon-negative.us/symposium</a>
Member of the Don Watershed Regeneration Council (DWRC)
Manager, Biochar Offsets Group:
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"Technology is only a tool. Sustainability is determined not by the the individual technologies, but rather how -- and even whether -- we decide to use them."
- Lloyd Helferty</pre>
On 2013-08-18 7:37 PM, Metta Spencer wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I don't know whether this system is compatible with biochar production, but it would solve the problem they end the article with: waste.
Can you please tell me how they should evaluate the cost/benefits of this procedure versus biochar manufacture with trash?
Thanks.
MS
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