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

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

On Monday 31 October 2011 20:01:02 Tom Miles wrote:
> If I am taking char from a TLUD and adding it to cooking scraps for
> compost do I ignore the carbon in the char when calculating the Carbon
> to Nitrogen ratio?

That's an interesting one because we know the char contains both labile 
and recalcitrant carbon. The bugs that compost the scraps need labile 
carbon to respire and nitrogen to make amino acids. Intuitively I'd guess 
one would ignore the fixed or recalcitrant part of the char but am also 
interested in Frank's opinion.

AJH