[Stoves] Oxygen depletion

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Dan

 

Plain common sense from you as usual!

 

Thanks

Crispin

 

http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/18/beware-the-biochar-initiative/

DD Burying Biochar is like any other soil management practice, it needs to
be balanced.  Soil is a living organism. Feeding it an unbalanced diet can
wreck it, feeding it a balanced diet can enhance it. Enhanced soil holds
carbon, wrecked soil releases it. 

    Best use of efficiently produced charcoal is to combust it efficiently
to offset and reduce fossil fuel usage. This reduces CO2 emissions and
depletion of carbon reserves. Nothing wrong with using charcoal as a tool
for better growing, if that tool is properly used. Charcoal is a great end
product for biomass wastes so why destroy good biomass to make it?  Only
replensihed and managed supplies of cultivated biomass should be used for
charcoal or energy production. Use the waste biomass first. No shortage of
it. 

 

    Dan Dimiduk 

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