[Stoves] [biochar-production] Re: Stoves Digest, Vol 14, Issue 17

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Frank

 

I understand that the silica is what makes rice do so much better - after
all, it needs silica in exactly that form to grow the fastest.

 

You points about the composition of the char are important - particularly if
stoves are supposed to produce something useful.

 

Is there any good reason to suppose that putting the whole mass, the whole
biomass, into the soil, perhaps chipped or ground up? Why would charring it
first do anything except speed up access to ash?

 

Regards

Crispin

 

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